It's Snowing in London!

That's right! You've read correctly! It is cold enough in this temperate country to snow! While the snow isn't sticking, it is nice, after a day of complete rain to see some of the white stuff...now, if it'll only just stick...

As many of you know (but some of you don't) this upcoming week is highlighted by Thanksgiving, which I could go into the history ( and the real history, is fairly gruesome, check it out sometime), but I'm assuming that most of you know why we are thankful for families and food, and commercializing yet another holiday.

I for one, now that I'm in a country that goes from sort of Halloween to Christmas, doubley appreciate my family's efforts of coming togetherness and an overabundance of excellent food, which I'm missing. Although Will and I are going to try to recreate the dinner, with a party of our own, including my dad's FAMOUS (well in our family at least) cajun stuffing.

While I think there may be only one or two other Americans attending said celebration, we're looking forward to a good turnout, and good times.

On another note, I have completed yet another proposal, since my topic went from relatively narrow, to a little more narrow, although I know that there are many more revisions before it'll be ready to start on the upgrade paper. I'm still crossing my fingers that the upgrade viva will be in May, so if any other people want to cross their fingers for that (and that I pass, that would be awesome).

I found out on Wednesday that UCL does indeed fail people at the upgrade stage, while rarely, I happened to meet the last fateful person, and let's just say that it scared the shit out of me, so again, cross your fingers.

We've moved our cats from Jelly food to Roasted food, which I think I may have mentioned, in an effort to keep Nemo under 20 pounds, as he ballooned when we introduced the jelly, and we were a little concerned that they wouldn't let us bring him back to the US. He has not gained any more weight, and looks like he might be leveling back off.

I'd like to ask our British readers, what exactly the purpose of the store alarm systems are, when they ring incessantly for hours on end, and yet no police or anyone is notified? Is it really an alarm that burglars adhere to? Currently I'm listening to the one go off at the Woolworth's across the street, it's been going off for about 15 minutes, and it does this about once a week. I'm thinking that one of these days, I might just go over there (as I could always use more hangers), and see what's up.

For those of you worried about the status of your Wedding Thank you Cards, they are almost complete, and once we have the funds to send your $2 stamped card, we will mail them out. For now, petition your dear president Bush, who has fucked up this administration up so much, that we our currently LOSING our HEGEMONIC status that we've had since World War I, and foreigners laugh out our currency, our policies, and us. P.S. all in all, that's why we can't afford the stamps, our dollar is worth about 45 cents to every British pound...it's awesome to be spending American money over here, and by awesome, I means I hope I never see Bush, because I'm sure I'll be arrested for the obscenities I'd be yelling, and he'd tell me something about how he was a cowboy, WHEN HE GREW UP IN CONNECTICUT. Anyway, rant over.