Feb 13th

I was going to get up and run before work this morning, but I set my alarm to the wrong side of noon, so I didn't have enough time. I jsut sat around reading while I ate breakfast and enjoyed the calm. I got to work and I got started on a new project. I was given the task of setting up an audit for the cotton project that went back three years. I have to look through these huge binders of reciepts and find the ones that were part of specific project so they can report it to the international office. Its taking me forever, because as far as I can tell, they have not been arranged in any order. Of they do, they haven't been labelled in any sort of coherent manner, so that doesn't even really matter. Oh well, I'll grind through it here and get back to the better stuff. Damien was there for a while so I had him go over some stuff for the database for me so that I can get started doing some more work on that.
Once I finished up with work, I went out to find something to eat. There was a pub on the corner that advertised its great food selection and it had a football match so I decided to check it out. Well, there great food selection consisted of nachos and fries. I think I missed something in there, but oh well. I went into the Tube and ate a place there. It is called NimComSoup. Quite a play on words huh? The food was pretty good. I had some jerked chicken a piece of pecan pie. What's interesting about the pie is that instead of having a really carmelly filling, it was chocately. Not goey chocalate, but more like a really dense dough that is chocolate flavored. It was different, but I liked it. I don't know if I would get it again, but it was a nice surprise. After that I hopped on the Tube to find the theater for a play I was going to that night: Avenue Q.
I got off the Tube and wandered around for about ten minutes. There are no really discernable landmarks to orient oneself because the streets have no real order. I finally found a map on a wall and got myself all straightened out. I still had about an hour before the play started and about half that amount before I could even get in. I wanderd around to find a pub to catch some football and passed by two that looked pretty dodgy. I ended up going towards these bright lights and it turned out to be the world premiere of a movie. I saw some "stars" walk by, but I didn't recognize any of them, so I moved on. I foudn I pub with a TV so I ducked in. I was at the bar and the bartender tried to give me some other person's change before I had even order, which turned out to be rather fortitious. We al made some jokes about and I moved on. Well, the guy who was at the bar came up to the same table as I was at and we started talking. I know, I made small talk. Aren't you proud of me mom. ;) We talked for about 45 minutes. His name was Steve and he was from a small town outside of Perth in Australie. Really great guy. He is currently in month nine of an extended holiday here in London. He's go it pretty rough. He's met up with some firends and is working and just having a great time. He was waiting to meet a friend to go to dinner. She showed up and we all talked for a little while longer. Her name was Micheal and was on a five year Visa for working as an architect. She was from Oklahoma. Good people.
I had to say good bye and get to the play, which luckily was not that far away. The play was really funny. Its sort of a grown up version of Sesmae Street and played on that quite a bit. I really enjoyed it and laughed a lot. We had a group of about 15 people from the trip, so it was a really good time. The play got done pretty early as shows go and I came right back to the flat. I headed to bed pretty early since I had to work the next day.