Slackerosity prevails!! A week and a half after I got back from London (AKA best Vacation ever) I had travel plans to visit my parents in Florida for a week. Another great getaway, but it seems like my life has been kinda dangling for the past month, between a week away, a week home, then a week away again. But it was totally worth it, obviously, and it may sound it, but I'm not complaining.

As usual, the blog suffered while I was out having a good time.

Get used to it though, as I've busied myself up with a full plate this fall. Along with work following it's regular course of being pretty busy in every month except July & December, I'm taking Sociology online this semester, and that course starts this week. And since I'm notoriously good at balancing work and school (HA!), I'm finally returning to the community theatre stage here in Baltimore!

I haven't been onstage (December 2005) since before I started the blog (June 2006), and only auditioned once about a year and a half ago to get back into it (didn't get cast, not bitter tho). So now I'm appearing as Jason Chenier in the Baltimore premiere of 'Take Me Out'. I'm pretty excited, I think my character is perfect for me, and I love the script. I'm stoked to be back into one of my hobbies, and hopefully the short rehearsal process will lend itself to me doing a decent job of juggling all the balls in my life. Heh... balls.

So that's the catching up with toonsntunes portion of the blog today. Hopefully I'll post regularly in the coming months. But you know... if I don't... there's plenty of other bloggers who do. Just stay away from Perez Hilton.

and the opposition: ("κράχτες" έξω από το δημαρχείο που προέβλεπαν τα Σόδομα και τα Γόμορρα - και εμπλέκονταν σε φιλικές συζητήσεις με τους συμμετέχοντες στην παρέλαση. Βοήθησαν βέβαια λίγο και οι αστυνομικοί σ'αυτό)

μετά μπήκα εγώ στο πλάνο και η σοβαρότητα επανήλθε, γιατί ως γνωστόν εγώ δεν κάνω αηδίες.

I’ve returned from my amazing London vacation, and life is starting to get back to normal. I’ve been trying to decide how much I should blog about the trip, and I dunno if it’s bragging or sharing.

Briefly, my best friend ShantyTown and I arrived In London the morning of July 25th, and left in the afternoon on August 2nd.

In between our arrival and departure we:
-saw Kylie’s KylieX2008 Tour at the O2 Arena
-took a daytrip to Stonehenge, Bath, & Lacock
-toured the Tower of London with a real Beefeater
-sweated it out at the Portobello Road Market
-went to the Work! Party at Heaven
-were not allowed to take pictures in Westminster Abbey or St. Paul’s Cathedral
-ate amazing meals from several global cuisines
-bought way too much overpriced bottled water
-mastered the London Underground system
-gave up on the Bus system altogether
-never got fully drunk
-got $30 stolen from us by our housekeeper
-saw ‘Spamalot’ on the West End in the cheap seats... Funny show
-saw ‘Into The Hoods’ from 15th row. Unbelievable show!!
-took 3 cab rides
-walked more then we ever do at home
-decided that Buckingham Palace and Parliament were not worth the ticket fees and line time to tour
-bypassed all the families and only stood in line for 10 minutes to go on the London Eye

That’s the nutshell version. It was incredible and we had a blast. Now we just need to pay it off between credit cards and what not. Can’t wait to go back though!! Some pictures are added in my flikr stream!!

adieu λοιπόν:

υγ. να ευχαριστήσω την καλή μου φίλη Λένα για την εξαιρετική αυτή φωτογραφία που με έκανε να μη θέλω να επιστρέψω ποτε!!

... till London. I'm so excited my London Bridge is coming down, just like Methface's!!!

Fergie - London Bridge

-- Oscar Wilde

I can't fucking wait!!!!!!

πχ: "Δεν ξάναμπαίνω στο αμάξι του Σωκράτη, μονίμως πάει μουτζουρούλια"

5 jobs I have had:

- paper boy

- bank teller

- clerk at K-Mart

- cashier at Old Navy

- soda jerk

5 movies I can watch over and over:

- The Birdcage

- Steel Magnolias

- Sordid Lives

- X-Men Trilogy

- Party Girl

5 places I have lived:

- Columbia, MD

- Hanover, MD

- Fork, MD

- Ellicott City, MD

- Baltimore, MD

5 TV shows I love:

- Veronica Mars

- Weeds

- Heroes

- Sex and the City

- Smallville

5 places I have been on vacation:

- Orlando, FL

- Philadelphia, PA

- Miami, FL

- Puerto Penasco, Mexico

- New York City

5 of my favorite meals:

- cheeseburger

- sushi

- homemade mac & cheese

- Shannon's Lasagna

- good mexican meal with plenty of margaritas/sangria

5 places I would rather be now:

- London

- beach

- NYC

- comic book store

- record store

What are your answers??

-- Jane Austen

Work is calming down, so hopefully I can do a better job of keeping up with the blog while juggling summer school and London plans. We shall see. It's hard to escape the calling of my pool though!!

Οι μπάρμεν συχνά δε χρησιμοποιούν μεζούρα (that's a first), δεν έχει είσοδο, μένει ανοιχτό μέχρι τις 4 τα Σάββατα (που είναι as late as it gets εδώ στο uk), παίζει ωραία μουσική (πάρα πολύ ωραία μουσική ορισμένες βραδιές) αν και με playlist και όχι με dj και μαζεύει πολύ συμπαθητικό κόσμο.

Και μερικά ντοκουμέντα για να δικαιολογήσω την αγάπη μου:

μεσημεριανό/βραδινό:

και ο βοηθός μου (χαχα Κωστακήηη):