The Bright Side

Things that are good about London, because I have to remind myself to keep from turning into a ball of misery and self pity. Because apparently that's a bad thing. 


1. Him
2. Them
3. Beauty is cheaper, I mean $40 for waxing really seems over the odds.
4. Dim Sum, there must be more Ping Pong on Sundays, with obscene quantities of delicious Char Sui buns and cocktails. 
5. Socialist fucking healthcare! Here's to free STD screening where they practically throw condoms at you (including flavoured ones and female ones, about which I hear good things) and don't look at you funny when you tell them what you've really been up to. 
6. Public transport; the London Underground may be full of foolish and irritating tourists, but it beats DC hands down on a bad day. It's bright and cheerful, and frequent and fast. The buses aren't too bad either. 
7. It's London. And it is (more than anywhere else at least) where I was raised, and therefore has certain home-like qualities. 
8. London has a cinema chain which (hopefully still) does an unlimited card, for peanuts, I will be able to see literally unlimited numbers of films, and I am a film junkie, so this does make me happy.
9. I'm running out. 
10. London has no rope bomb squad yet, it could be that I will start a trend and become London's first guerrilla bondage type. (Weirder things have happened!)


11. My friends are all in DC and Baltimore (and the surrounding area) and heaven is a place called Ramblewood, and it's going to be on the wrong side of the Atlantic rather than a smooth two hour drive away. I can be thoroughly miserable in my little bedroom missing the place I've come to call home and the community I've come to call family.