And a Long Island for Dessert

Ah where to begin today? Well as you can guess the last posting caused some drama here in London. Thankfully though sort of the cause of it, I was left out of it since I chose to go out with different folks this weekend. It’s amazing, by the way, how much work you can get done when you don’t have as many plans. Mark Wickham will be very happy that I read and edited Brian G’s note. And amazingly I even got reading done for EU Law. This is amazing because the text book is just so incredibly dense that I read two pages and can’t focus anymore. Anyhow, I believe I caused some problems for a couple girls who are having a conference with one of the topics from last time, to which I do apologize for. My posting was intended to finally cause the subject to get off his ass and have the chat he had been promising for 3 weeks. I don’t see why they should be in trouble anyways since neither of them told me a thing. The only one of the two I spoke to refused to reveal anything so they actually acted admirably. And as a random side note, should anyone wish to leave commentary about a post that’s great, I like getting fun little messages. But its best if leave your commentary after the post to which it pertains. I read the commentary from last post, and neither message has anything to do with the topic. It can be very confusing since if appears the comments came out of thin air. Especially if the post it pertains to is over a year old. The only other thing I ask is if you are going to leave critical commentary that you leave your name. You know who I am, so if you are going to be critical show your face.
Now onto other matters and the goings on of the better parts of London. I was supposed to meet up with the Greek this weekend, but sadly he had to cancel again after he had to go to the hospital. It was probably the best reason ever for having to cancel. Hopefully we will get to do something simple like lunch this week. I also met this very cute guy who lives in Brighton this weekend as well. Brighton is on the sea, so it’s a resort of sorts. There was nothing dirty in this meeting, we just chatted and drank water actually so perhaps I have just made a pretty friend. He actually reminds me a lot of Derek, both in the way he looks and his mannerisms so I have to be careful since there are a lot of emotions tied to Derek.
Now Friday night was one of the craziest I have had so far here. And to think it was spent with straight people. It started when I went to a birthday party for this gay guy I know, but that was weird since I didn’t know anyone else there and wasn’t introduced to anyone so I had a beer and stayed the requisite 30 minutes and wished him Happy Birthday before leaving and heading out to meet Erin and Co. at Nama Bar. Then I got to Name and no one was there, but on my way back I ran into Kirin who I had never hung out with really. We went and had a beer at his place while trying to find out where everyone was. Though at times he has a ladies man mentality (but I guess what straight man doesn’t), he is cool and gets the Brian seal of approval. Really anyone who doesn’t know me well but welcomes me into their place and offers me a beer gets the seal of approval. So once we found someone we joined Spencer at Sugar Reef, which was a funk quasi-swanky bar that kept offering us tequila shots. And these were actually decent ones, not the tiny ones I got at Revolution. For those who have never been to London, they are skimpy on the alcohol. They have the bottles on these valve things so when you order a drink it pours a preset amount. Well that preset amount is tiny. I bought a tequila shot at Revolution and just wanted to ask “Where is the rest of it?” So thankfully Sugar Reef was more generous. Well I say thankfully, but really it hit me later in the evening so maybe not thankfully. Well Spencer and his ex roommate decided to go home because they were tired – at 11pm!!! Weak I have to say since it was Friday night. So Kirin and I spent about the next 45 minutes searching through Soho and Picadilly Circus for the other groups. We finally found Erin and her friend and met up with Tracy and her London Fashion Week friends at Camoflauge which had surprisingly good music. My only complaint is that the DJ wasn’t very good at mixing the songs together. Well my other one is that the drinks were WAY too expensive, since we had to resort to sharing bottles of wine. I treated myself to a long island ice tea though to end the evening. In the end we stayed out til 3am and got plenty of dancing in which was a nice change of pace. I love to dance so its always nice to find other who are willing. Too often I seem to end up with folks who are less than willing. Anyways, that was the extent of my weekend. A crazy Friday night followed by a calm and relaxed Saturday and Sunday. I am going to have to work a little harder at the gym though because I have lost weight and feel kinda skinny right now. Wish me luck. As a final note, I am thinking of moving my blog to an address that folks in London don’t have, let me know what you think.