To follow up on my previous post, click below to read WH Smith’s response to my complaint, followed by my reply to them. I also heard back from the station manager at Waterloo. He said he was going to discuss this issue with the shop. When I returned to Waterloo the next day, the magazines were not displayed outside the shop. This may just be a coincidence though.
yesterday i was walking home and went into the tate modern to use the loo. hey, i had to go! there aren’t a lot of places to pee on the southbank. anyway, there was a homeless man outside the museum picking through the garbage. he was opening old sandwich wrappers and licking them; he was picking up discarded starbucks cups and drinking any liquid that was left. it was a truly horrifying sight. i see plenty of homeless people in this city. i rarely see anyone eating garbage like that. it almost made me cry to see him doing that. and it was even more horrifying that he was surrounded by people enjoying the saturday sunshine, sunbathing on the lawn in front of the museum, eating ice cream, playing frisbee. and here was this guy literally eating trash and we all just passed him by. i think to live in a city, you must participate in a certain level of cruelty and cold-heartedness. how else could we all walk right by a guy eating garbage?
I woke up today feeling quite flu-ish — sore throat, headachey, running nose. And on my one day off! Grrrrr. Still, I trekked into the West End for various amusements. And at one point, I found myself swept up into a teeny-bopper mob outside the Duke of York’s Theatre, waiting for Orlando Bloom to emerge from the stage door. He is starring in the drama In Celebration, which has garnered strong reviews.
He may be a Republican, but a girl couldn’t ask for a better Pops. Here’s a sunset for you, Big Daddy. I know you love them like I do. This is a view of the sun setting over the Thames. It’s a bit gritty — with construction cranes just for you. [In the interest of full disclosure, it's nearly impossible to take a photo of the London skyline that doesn't somehow feature cranes...]
Happy Birthday! xxx
Tonight I am marking a huge pile of essays. The university is paying me £5 per essay. Given the quality of these essays and how long it’ll take me to mark them, that equals about 70p per hour. Ka-CHING!
The students must submit a paper and electronic version of their essay. They submit one electronically so we can run it through a database that scans millions of websites and online sources to check it for plagiarism. But I heard a rumor that the students know about this not-so-secret weapon and in their quest to stay one step ahead, have actually taken a step backwards and are now copying out of good old-fashioned books at the library. Yes, real books with dusty pages. So you see, technology is grand…but books are better. Books never let you down.
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