cupcakes & dinosaurs

before i tell you about the cool stuff i'm doing, can i mention some of my nerdier endeavors? mainly me watching mighty boosh all the freakin' time. i'm seriously obsessed. i'm watching it online and sometimes it takes FOR-EV-ER to load, but it's so worth it. totally ridiculous characters and jokes and plotlines. and the songs! my favorite characters so far have been the spirit of jazz and charlie, the hubba bubba nightmare. and i looooove naboo and fossil's description of animals. for those of you unfamiliar with the boosh, here's a small taste. it makes me miss my brother actually- i feel like he would loooove boosh.

in more exciting news: i got a delicious cupcake! on wednesday, we went to hummingbird bakery (i thought i passed this on the street, but when i looked it up i realized it wasn't on any street i had ever been on before . . . maybe i dreamt about it? i've been having extremely vivid dreams lately so this wouldn't be a stretch.) and it was incredible. keiran got a lavender cupcake, christine got some crazy rocky road chocolate covered marshmallow mountain thing, and i got something called a 'black bottom'. i had no idea what to get and just kind of panicked and randomly ordered it but thank god i did. it was chocolate cake on the bottom, choco chip cheesecake on the top, and cream cheese icing on the top. yes yes yes. there was a serious lack of baked goods in my diet and this really hit the spot.

yesterday, i hit up the natural history museum solo. (i'm digging this whole 'museums by myself thing'. i'm trying to make it kind of a regular deal.) while the exhibits were a little juvenile, i'm a total sucker for taxidermy and captions and just museum layouts in general. the dinosaurs were incredible (and i'm always amazed by how large they are and the fact that they lived on earth! and yet we still don't know everything about them. so interesting. also, they were talking about how this one dinosaur had a kind of built in horn in it's head that it could blow to warn other dinos of danger. dinosaurs had so many cool features.) and i loved the mammals as well. whales? totally crazy. huge. there were a bunch of weird captions/exhibits in the museum that made me laugh out loud, which in turn made me look like a crazy person since i was by myself. the one that really got me, was about camel's body temperature compared to humans. it was cute little narrative with little wooden figures in a diorama. when the sun came out and they started to sweat, little clear beads popped up above their heads and when it got too hot, the wooden man figure just fell over. so cute. i was hysterical.

i also started my internship last night! i'm working with this guy, Dylan Emery, who is super involved in London's impro scene (sidenote: did you know that london's scene is relatively young? it only got swinging about 5 years ago. and it's pretty small too. . . interesting, since london is such a major city. . .). i saw a catch23 show (3 impro teams of 2 players each must do 4 scenes totaling 23 minutes. points are awarded yadda yadda yadda. super fun) everyone was super nice and the show was so much fun to watch. it made me miss doing improv at home. i'm excited to get into it here though. there's a guy, tim, from chicago (he's on the musical team baby wants candy) and he's going to do a couple workshops while he's in town so hopefully i'll get to go to some of those. it was so nice talking to another american as dumb as that sounds. i missed that american connection! and i feel like he understood some of the things i was going through with culture shock.

so overall: yay for the past few days! good things abound! this weekend = curry festival! and sara walsh gets here! and open house weekend! i'm looking forward to exploring.