new obsessions:

the taiko: a double-headed japanese drum. we learned it in class today and i've jumped ships. screw the chinese ensemble. i played it in front of my class today, sight-read the whole thing first time through and my teacher told me i rocked it. nice.

hare krishna food: everyday at 1pm, the hare krishna man sets up shop outside the school gates and we all line up in hopes that we'll get to him before the food runs out. it's a significant portion of fabulous food for a small donation (even 1p would work but who would do that to the hare krishna man?)

boys in my class with awesome accents: this is a platonic obsession. i just can't imagine ever getting sick of hearing them speak. it's fantastic. there's a mexican boy and a japanese boy and a korean boy and a british boy. (and then there's the boy from argentina who isn't in my class but who is just very pretty).

actually finding books in the library: it's not easy. first you have to look the book up, then you have to write down the class mark (the letters followed by the incredibly long number with decimal points) and then you have to find out where in the library the letters/numbers correspond to and then you have to go to the place it should be, realise it's not in its place, go to the reshelving unit, realise it's not there either and then just go back to the bookshelf and kinda scan the shelves above and below where it should be and maybe find it. otherwise, you have to go downstairs and fill in a "missing book form" at which point they will email you as soon as you've left school and arrived home and say, "oh yes, i looked for the book and the class mark was wrong, so now it's been put in the right place and i've told the librarian".

learning random words in random languages: i live with 6 other people and between us, we speak 8 languages. this is totally my kind of dorky fun.

camden town and covent garden: great places to shop. covent garden for actual stores and camden town for the markets. absolutely fantastic. and apparently the food is great there too.