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The final chapter can be read at scottwbolohan.blogspot.com as I'm out of space on this blog. There might be some moving issues but hopefully it should be all smoothly running soon.

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We went down to Camden Market, which Mary thought was like Diagon Alley. She loved it, we looked at all sorts of cool things and she found gifts for a bunch of people.We walked back along the canal and into Regent's Park, stopping to get a Flake. As we were wandering around by the water, Mary stopped and was looking at swans when an old dude came up and asked her if she knew a lot about swans. He

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I went and got some more Nutella, bagels, and a baguette because we ate the entire jar in a day. Whoops.We walked down to Hyde Park again, stopping along the way to get adapters a and went into Kensington Palace, from the 1600s but it was interesting to us because Diana lived there (Mary loves Diana). The place just seemed sorta old and not all that nice, and on top of that we didn't get to see

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I have one month left until graduation, crazy. I'm not looking forward to leaving.We went down to Hyde Park and went to the Serpentine to rent a row boat for a half hour. Having never rowed before, it was a a struggle to say the least, but I got the hang of it eventually. It wasn't really sunny out but nice enough that it was a good time.From there we went and bought awesome Flakes and walked

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We got up and went to Giraffe in my neighborhood where the Beatles filmed the restaurant scene in 'Help!' It didn't look much like it did in the movie, but at least I had good pancakes and Moroccan mint tea.From there we walked down to Primark and spent a pretty good amount of time shopping around there. After Mary picked out about the entire store, the line to try them on was too long so she

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I got up at 9 and went down to reception to try to get a guest pass for Mary. Turns out that they can only have 15 overnight guests in the building at a time for some fire code, which makes no sense to me. I live in Communist Russia. I got one for next week and made a little alteration to it so I think that I can sneak her in without much of a problem. But I was really angry.I met her at the

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We went out for a walk looking for places to be open, hoping for something like a McDonald's to be where they would just let us sit and hang out for a while. There were some bars but none looked that great.We went to The Great Scot and ordered coffee. Since it was something like 1:30 am, the coffee was rather old and they just gave it to us for free. Free Norwegian meals is awesome. Granted, it

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So Heidi and I booked this crazy one-day Oslo trip basically because I love the song 'Oslo in the Summertime' by Of Montreal and because Ryanair flies there super cheap. You can hear it here, the video has nothing to do with the song and was just made by some dude.The flight was early and we had no problems. I slept the entire way.The Oslo airport that we flew into is actually in Torp, which is

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I went to the 'In My Life' tour, which met at the Marylebone Station, just just the street from me. There the Beatles filmed the opening sequence to 'A Hard Days Life,' pretty cool. From there we went to a church where Paul and Ringo were married and then down to 34 Montegue where Ringo, John and Yoko and Jimi Hendrix all lived, a major historical home (the 'Two Virigins' photos were taken there

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I worked on the blog (it looks like my photos from Botin are lost somehow, figures after taking pictures of everything I eat for five months that when I go to the world's oldest restaurant it gets messed up) and made my way over to Tesco to grab some groceries. It was good to get some real food.I also bought Munchies, which is about 10 small pieces of chocolate filled with caramel and like a

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After breakfast and checking out we went to meet for the free tour. Our guide was awesome, an Irish dude named Daniel who was hilarious. At least to me. The Irish sense of humor really worked with me, very self-deprecating, not taking anything too seriously. Somehow, he even made a journalist getting shot by a guy on a moped with a machine gun unintentionally funny.The tour was good, we went

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My column ran today, I think this one is good, better than the last. It’s funny at least. I really did rewrite this one about six times, I have the rough drafts on Spanish menus to prove it. The word ‘awesome’ is in the title. The Colonel must be rolling in his grave. I’ve started to invent words in my columns, I like to think of myself as the modern Webster.After breakfast and showering it was

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I slept pretty well at the airport. The flight in was fine too, slept most the way.We had some trouble finding the bus at the Dublin airport, but once we did we were fine, even up at in the front of the upper deck, the best seat on the bus.We couldn't find our hostel after missing the stop but after going up and down Camden a little we realized it was pretty easy.The hostel is nice, the rooms are

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We got up at 7 and went to the breakfast, which was even better today since it was early and lots of food still out.After showering up and getting everything ready we tried again to go to Cafa Hafa. We went up through the Cashbah and wandered around, not really knowing where to go or anything other than in the general direction.We had sort of an address but we couldn't figure out exactly where to

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We got up for breakfast down in the restaurant, which we weren't sure if it was free or not. Turns out it was, or at least we didn't pay. It was solid, lots of breads and even Coco Puffs. There was one very good pastry with soft bread and chocolate inside, a decent breakfast. I came back up and sent in my column, it's funny I think.We went down to the beach since it was a little nicer out today,

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We got up and had the usual breakfast and checked out of the hotel a little later than we wanted to. The train ride was fine and we basically waltzed through security and got to the gate with about a half hour to spare.I rewrote my column for about the sixth time, but I really like it and I sort of split it up so that I have one for just about the Hawks later.I continued to write on the plane and

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We got up just in time to catch the end of breakfast. It was packed but good. Then we just decided to start walking around with no real direction. We didn’t have any plans so it was nice to explore the city. We ended up in a market and I looked at used jackets. They also were playing the ‘Vicky Christina Barcelona’ soundtrack so I was pretty pumped. After that we just wandered some more

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I got up around 8:30 and had a quick breakfast and checked out before getting on the train to Figueres. We got there with a good amount of time to spare. The train ride was good, I slept nearly the entire way listening to my Spanish music. When we got off the train Dr. Schmidt and Monika were waiting for us at the top of the stairs. They both called me Steve and I felt too awkward to correct

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After a very meger breakfast, we went down to the Barcelona history museum. A couple cool things about it. First being that it is build on top of the most extensive underground Roman ruins in the world. There is basically a whole city beneath the museum, much of which you can see. The extent that they covered was amazing and rather unexpected. It was interesting, not quite Rome, but well done.The

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I didn´t get that much sleep, but slept on the bus a little, listening to the ´Vicky Christina Barcelona´soundtrack.The flight was fine, I was asleep before takeoff. I woke up at one point convinced missiles were being fired at us as we fleew over the desert. Turns out I´m just crazy. At the Barcelona airport, they had the most ridiculous customs ever, just some dude standing letting people

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I spent the morning and early afternoon finishing up the blogs. That was a huge relief to get done.My Dylan Dublin tickets didn't arrive, even though they were guaranteed to on Friday, which is sort of an issue since I'm leaving Monday and not getting back until after the shows. So I called ma and we worked on that. We couldn't really come up with a solution.But I did get to book my flight back,

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I spent hours today on the blog, getting a lot of it done. I decided to go down to the cafe to work on it for a while, which was nice to just get outside because it was beautiful. I ordered a crossiant and a cafe fredo, which was really good but since it was a cold drink I drank it in like a second. That's a nice thing about coffee/tea.The wifi there was not very good at all and they gave you 30

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I spent most of the day working on getting the blog together, and still somehow feel like I have a ton more to do.I went with Heidi down to Foyles (supposedly the biggest bookstore in Europe) to look at travel books but they didn't have anything for Tangier there either. We then walked down to Primark and I got some socks and a cool button down army green shirt with sleeve roller-up things.We

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I got up later than I wanted to and made my way down to the Hannah Montana premiere at 12:30 (a half hour late as Kim would happily remind you). There were people already lining the barriers set up, so we weren't really sure where to go. They were going to set up more barriers around the area and we thought we could just wait until they did that.We walked down to Piccadilly Circus and went to

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First, my column ran today, not my favorite I've wrote, but not so bad. I created a fan page on Facebook and I'm up to 60 fans already, although most are people I invited that I'm friends with, but there are a couple I don't know, which is intersting. I'll be curious to see how this progresses.I didn't sleep all that well on the McDonald's bench, even though it was a surprisingly nice place to

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I had a good breakfast again and checked out of the hostel. I decided to go up to Sacre Cour again. It is always packed with people there, and in the morning was no different. I decided since it was another really nice day out that I would walk in to town. I didn’t look at the map at all, just sort of went whichever way the roads took me. It ended up being a cool path, past the Abbesses Metro

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After eating lots of bread for breakfast, I took the train down to Pere Lashaise. The cemetery is terribly done, they only have one map at the entrance to the park, so you are basically forced to buy a map from someone selling them outside. I guess with free admission, a 2 Euro map isn’t so bad. The cemetery is huge. I spent around two hours going around it. There were a lot of famous people

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It rained all day so I decided that it would be a good day for Versailles. It took about an hour to get down there on the RER (I only had to use one of my tickets we already paid for, which was nice) but the real problem was that once I got there, there was a huge line. I waited literally an hour and a half playing scrabble in the rain while those silly EU students could go in for free. It was

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I had the usual breakfast and went back to the room. I met an Argentinean named Martin who was staying in the room with me. He wanted to know what I was up to and I said I thought I’d go through the Pompidou Center. He asked if he could tag along, so I said sure.He works in the PR side for Hollywood studios in Argentina, a very interesting job. He’s basically the guy that starts out on the other

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We got up sort of early, not as early as I would have liked, and we walked around town for a little before coming back at 10 to try to get my room situation figured out. The manager was incredibly nice and worked it out so that I wouldn’t have to pay for three beds, transferring the payment we already had for our room to the next two days of my dorm. That was a huge relief.Once that was settled

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We got up in the morning, feet incredibly sore, and went downstairs for breakfast. It was on the meager side of hostel breakfasts, but still cereal, breads, juice, and tea. It was alright. I went on the internet and their keyboards are different. The a and q keys are switched, among others.We walked over to Notre Dame, which wasn’t that hard to figure out actually, and it was a good walk into a

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We got to the airport no problem. We did have problems when I realized that we needed to get a stamp on our tickets or we couldn't fly. So we had to go back through security but one of the ladies said we could go to the front of the line when we came back. So we lifted up one of the line things and walked up to the front. Mom went a little too far and some Italian men were going to tackle her it

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We got up and checked out, leaving our bags in the open room. First up we went to the Victor Emmanuel monument to get a view over the city. To get to the very top you had to pay 7 Euro each, so we didn’t do that, but we got up pretty high that I felt like we didn’t miss anything.Next we went into San Marco church, right next door. It was a strange church, originally started in the 4th century. It

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We slept in a while and got up around 10. The goal was to go spend the day at the Vatican. Being the day after Easter, that seemed sorta cool. I was hungry and on the way we were going to walk past Piazza Novona so we walked through it. It was huge, with Bernini fountains, an Egyptian obelisk, and restaurants all around the piazza. Turns out it’s in the shape of an old Roman horse racing stadium,

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We left around 4 to get the two buses to Victoria. It was very smooth, we even got to the station about a half-hour early. On the train, there were two French women and a Brit (who was fluent in French too) talking about the greatness of Sting, Phil Collins, and Elton John’s lyrics. It was really interesting, especially when they went back and forth between English and French. Ma slept more the

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I spent most the day getting last-minute things together for the trip. Mom called when she landed in Paris, which was exciting. But then right when I was about to leave, she called and said that her plane was having technical problems and they’d be delayed for an hour. Not so good. I got on the train around 2:30 and read my guide books the entire way there. With the Jubilee and Circle lines

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I went to Starbucks and read some more about Italy, it looks like there's a ton to do, I don't know how we'll get it done in just the couple days. I also emailed an American church in Rome to try to get tickets to see the Pope give mass and there aren't any left. It would be tough to make the mass (which I'm not sure what time it is at, although I'd assume it would be at noon), so maybe it's for

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My column ran today, as I expected it was the Orton one, more Chicagoy and really a better column. The interesting thing was the way it was laid out, taking up most of the page instead of just well, a column. I'm pumped (more people probably read it) and there's also a huge goofy picture of Kyle Orton next to me.I don't think hardly anything was edited again, so that was good, I always get

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I got up and went to the Shakespeare/Dickens walking tour at St. Paul's. It was strange, I expected things like places where they lived or hung out, but this was much more interpretive. They showed some places where Dickens was talking about in books and where Shakespeare lived in the area of, but not what I was hoping for. They had more of history of old London, including things like having

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I finished up my paper, which took longer than I anticipated. It didn't end up great, but basically as long as I turned it in, I wasn't going to fail, so I would pass my class. That's fine with me, there's too much else going on. I printed it off and went down to the Wells Street campus to turn it in. I'm officially done with school forever. I tried not to think about it too much.I then walked

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I woke up early and met Heidi at Paddington Station and we left to go down to Windsor. The train ride was very easy (they have a great rail network here). It took about 50 minutes to get there because we had to wait for a train at Slough to get to Widnsor.When we got in, they were doing the big changing of the guard parade down the street. Lots of guards marching, people playing music, it was

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I booked my big Spain trip. It's a little confusing how it's all going to work out (and was a mess to plan), but here's what it's going to be. Barcelona from the 27th to the 29th, sleeping in the airport that night, flying to Madrid on the 30th, staying there until May 2, flying to Tangier (in Morocco, in Africa (!)) the 2nd and 3rd, flying back to Madrid on the 4th, and then flying to Dublin for

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I wrote my two columns in the morning and went over the Picasso story again. My Orton column is a lot better than the Second Game column as of now, so we'll see what I end up doing, if I keep working with the other one or just go with the Orton. I sort of thought it would end up the other way. I'm going to send whatever I end up doing in tomorrow. I think I might also turn in my final paper

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-68365397529049096372009-04-04T00:41:00.003+01:002009-04-04T01:14:28.615+01:00

I got up around 11:30 and worked on getting my paper all together. I spent most of the afternoon on this, as well as writing outlines for my column ideas. I also created a website just for my columns so they're all in one place and easy to fine. It's at scottbolohancolumns.blogspot.com, nothing that interesting. I'll still post the columns to this blog too.Heidi wanted to go down to the chocolate

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I slept in for a while and then went to Sainsbury's to get food, since it looks like I'll actually be around here this week. I bought a ton of stuff, the most interesting being Linda McCartney vegetarian British pies. I love the pies here, I'm really curious to see what they'll be like.I came back and had a big lunch and then went over to the post office, which was painless surprisingly, and then

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-16641484732004426472009-04-02T01:00:00.003+01:002009-04-02T10:46:59.771+01:00

I woke up today, finished off my bagels and ice cream, and got ready to go to the G20 protests. I didn't really know what to expect. I've been to a lot of major events in the last couple years, but I figured this was probably the most volatile.I met up with Heidi and we walked down to the City of London along the River because it was so nice out. After nearly two hours of walking (with some stops

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I got up around 9 and had my great pancake and toast breakfast again. I checked out and made my way down to the train station where I caught the train to Cascais (pronounced cash-kice). The tickets were 1.80 Euros each. Amazingly cheap. The ride was nice. Since they’ve screwed up their waterfront big time, the train had great view the whole way there. The ride only took about a half-hour, all

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-79710336800935384262009-03-30T21:53:00.006+01:002009-04-01T23:15:14.788+01:00

I got up around 9:30 and went downstairs for breakfast. They had two women making whatever you wanted. I asked for pancakes and toast. I always forget that pancakes are more like crepes than pancakes here, and I'm always pleasantly surprised. These were particularly awesome, and they gave us some Nutella to put on them. I don't know how they make pancakes here, but whatever they do I want to

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-6481132326658128582009-03-29T22:32:00.004+01:002009-03-30T01:12:45.423+01:00

I went to bed around 11:30, I was beat after all that drafting. I had to get up at 4 for the bus. Miraculously I remembered that it was Daylights Savings Time and that my phone would probably not change, so I set my alarm for 3 and pulled up the time online and set it big so that I could see what it was when I got up. My phone didn’t switch, but I was still covered. I felt pretty smart about that

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-11700661704866997162009-03-28T22:12:00.004Z2009-03-28T22:43:29.559Z

I got slept in again, which was nice. I was still tired when I woke up, but I didn't want to sleep much more.I spend a couple hours on my draft prep and sort of figured out what I was going to do. This year I went more according to plan than usual. My goal was to pass on pitching for the most part, focusing on hitting early, as well as a balance of power and speed.I went to the post office to

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I slept in late today, which was great. I don't remember the last time I didn't really have to wake up for anything. I did my laundry for the second time this year and I worked on getting my papers all figured out and together. Sort of a boring day for the most part.Around 6 I went and dropped off the papers, making me done with two more classes. I then went to eat dinner with Kim, Heidi, and

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It was strange waking up knowing that it would be my last day of going to class ever. Since I remember taking first day of class pictures in the morning before school, I took a last day of class picture before I went.First was my Art and Society class. I debated skipping it to work on my presentation, but I decided to go to at least the lecture part (which are always completely worthless for the

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-47694280490626614912009-03-26T02:18:00.005Z2009-03-28T03:00:20.850Z

My column ran today, not so many edits as in the past. I was worried this was a little bit too much like my Super Bowl column but it was fine I think. I liked referencing how I was talking to Ryan and rooting against his picks, that's basically how I got the idea for the column.Writing class was alright, we just had the class perform the scenes that we wrote. Mine didn't go over quite how I

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I stayed up until 3:30 working on getting the blog all together in the hostel. No one said a word to me about being there, it was worlds better than being in the airport.I slept on the bus to the airport and once I was at the airport I didn't have all that long to kill. I bought a chocolate bar because I had some coinage left that I wouldn't have been able to use, and after going through another

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-88611755387332246092009-03-23T22:35:00.003Z2009-03-24T00:22:38.115Z

We got up at 4:15 to get Amy to the train station. It actually worked too. It had snowed the night before, so there was a layer of snow on all the trees and buildings, it was pretty. I came back and slept until 9:45.I went and mailed off some stuff for Amy and I grabbed a strawberry banana fruit cooler (like a Slurpee) at 7-Eleven. It was really good.I then went and bought my shoes and a shirt,

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-5211785970517031222009-03-22T22:17:00.004Z2009-03-24T02:20:45.862Z

I got up at 8:10 and showered. We packed up the room, I sent in my column, and went down to the breakfast buffet. It was really awesome. All sorts of bread, cheese, fruits, yogurt, tea, juice, I ate incredibly well.We went from the hostel to our new hostel up by the train station. It's a lot closer to everything, and a pretty cool place still.We decided to go to the Royal Palace first, since it

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-41460363128375339032009-03-22T00:47:00.004Z2009-03-24T01:28:50.239Z

I slept on and off throughout the day at the airport. I guards woke me up around 5 and I got up and had some water. I went online for a little and then moved over by the window and crashed for a while. I actually got some relatively decent sleep in. The airport was surprisingly comfy.Around 9:30 I caught the bus into town and decided to try to walk from the station to the hostel. It was a great

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-37057446558973155982009-03-21T13:07:00.005Z2009-03-24T01:28:34.215Z

I slept-in today and got ready to leave (although not very well). But that was about all I did. I went and printed out my tickets and got things together, and since I didn’t have any food, I walked to the magic Starbucks and got a fruit cup, blueberry muffin, and a Strawberries and Cream for free. It was good (and £7.90 for free). I came back and took some money out to change to Swedish

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-21806294641071577102009-03-20T00:05:00.004Z2009-03-24T01:28:21.490Z

I got my package from ma today, and I had the Girl Scout's cookies for breakfast. It was awesome, I eat those so quick.For Art and Society we went to the National Gallery, which I'd never been to. We went to the Picasso exhibit. It was pretty great, except smaller than I expected.They didn't have any major works, but they had a surprising variety. I didn't realize how often he changed his style.

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-22892857088202610742009-03-19T13:22:00.003Z2009-03-19T18:24:13.716Z

Writing class was boring, like usual, but I wrote a column idea and a paper that I have to do during it, so it was productive at least. I think this might be my last lecture class of my life.On break from writing class I went and topped up my phone and returned my rented books from Borders.Devising London was good as well, we ran through our performance, I'm only not in three sketches. I'm one of

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-28060349454070953472009-03-18T00:57:00.004Z2009-03-19T18:36:14.012Z

I got up and showered (the biggest and nicest shower I’ve be in for months) and tried to go eat at a place where they had waffles with cherry and whipped cream for two Euros, but it was closed. Since I had to make it down to the Brandenburg Gate at 11, I didn’t have much time to mess around, so I just decided to stop into a little bakery and grab a Berliner (jelly doughnut, like Kennedy) and some

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-61241619554291106562009-03-16T22:15:00.005Z2009-03-19T18:53:59.561Z

I got up and had another good breakfast, got my stuff together and checked out. I went across the street to the train station and caught the first train in the wrong direction. I figured it our right away, so it wasn't a big deal.I was cutting it a little closer than I would have liked it at the airport, and apparently Germans don't know how to go through security (I really hate when people wait

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-5600036769704239392009-03-15T21:57:00.005Z2009-03-19T19:03:27.132Z

I woke up at 9:45 to get breakfast downstairs. That was a mistake. Since it was at the end of the breakfast time, I didn't get a knife or spoon, so I had to make due with a fork. They were also out of rolls. But I still had my fruit and bread, so it was all good.I went down to the train station (across the street) and met for the Hitler and the Third Reich walking tour (offered by a different

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-23777468129203995212009-03-14T21:33:00.005Z2009-03-19T19:17:32.806Z

So the Sears Tower is now the Willis Tower. And Bill Davidson died. I feel like so much is happening and I'm finding out about it late.I got up around 9 and had my free breakfast, the best free hostel breakfast I've had to date. The standouts were the fruit (which I feel like I haven't had in forever, whoops) and the hot chocolate. The bread and all was pretty standard, but still good.I showered

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-63771664313334951652009-03-13T22:47:00.010Z2009-03-19T19:24:07.004Z

The flight in was good, probably the least I've slept on a flight so far, mostly because I had the most sleep coming into it.The whole airport deal took longer than I anticipated, so instead of going to my hostel first, I got off at the stop for the free walking tour. I had to kill about 45 minutes. But lo and behold, when I walked off the S-Bahn stop, there was the world's greatest looking

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-30654553429668630172009-03-12T20:26:00.003Z2009-03-13T00:09:32.806Z

My RedEye column ended up running today. Guess I didn't have anything to worry about after all. Here it is:They edited out my favorite though. When I'm talking about the excuse for Harden, the next line was 'and the dog ate his passport.' I found that really funny for some reason, maybe I was the only one.We went to the Somerset House for class, it was really cool actually. It's right off the

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-78404722014230350022009-03-11T22:01:00.004Z2009-03-11T23:09:21.116Z

First off, I saw that Colleen Howe died, that's sad, although it's been a long time she's been dealing with all that. I'll always remember when she came over with the autographed magazine for me at the gala dinner.My writing class was ok, the playwrite Ben Musgrave ran it. He was interesting, much better than a regular class. I read his play, "Pretend You Have Big Buildings" the night before, it

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-64321207117884362672009-03-11T18:52:00.004Z2009-03-11T19:13:23.122Z

I went to the Childhood Museum for my improv class to start the day. It was interesting to see how many of the toys they had that I had too. At the same time, it was disappointing. Perhaps the most disappointing part of coming to Europe has been how American everything has felt. I don't feel like I'm really ever that far away, probably because I hang out with a lot of Americans, but also because

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-12432412521952511602009-03-09T22:15:00.006Z2009-03-11T18:52:02.896Z

We got to the airport a little after midnight and found a spot to crash. I went to sleep in the corner and slept on the floor. I woke up a few hours later freezing. I wandered the airport and found it was way warmer upstairs, and there were some seats you could lay out on. Kim was up coughing so I brought her up there too. By the time I woke up around 5ish, nearly everyone else had made their way

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-27242241234993165122009-03-08T18:29:00.002Z2009-03-11T18:40:31.938Z

We woke up and had breakfast, good again. It was another incredibly nice day outside, no clouds in the sky and the sun was out. We expected it to be rainy, so we made it our museum day.We went up to the roof of Nemo, their science center than looks like a boat. It was notoriously known as the place where a woman high on mushrooms jumped off of. It was a real nice view of the city, especially with

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-69282308137404037182009-03-07T17:10:00.000Z2009-03-10T18:28:48.952Z

We got up around 9:30 and had breakfast upstairs. It was good, bread, toast, cereal, orange juice and nutella and butter, basically all I eat, and it was free.Then we had the shower procession, I went last and because it was so nice outside, I went and sat up on the deck and wrote my column.We then went to try to meet up with the rest of the group, but after walking for a while (it was gorgeous)

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-52455727948300216912009-03-06T16:36:00.000Z2009-03-10T17:10:17.025Z

We got down to the airport too early, around 3, when the flight didn’t leave until 6:30. We went through security and then decided to try to sleep for a while. We found some benches without handrails and slept for about an hour. It was an incredibly good nap. I’m becoming way too good at sleeping at airports, an important skill I suppose.The flight was completely uneventful. I don’t even remember

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-38056051123797445172009-03-06T00:12:00.004Z2009-03-10T16:35:25.137Z

We went to the Tate Britain. Again. This was my third time at least going and I've never really loved any of the times I've been there, so I wasn't all that excited about going. We focused on landscape paintings today, which are sorta boring. Except for Turner paintings, particularly at the end of his career when he drifted off into impressionist paintings where people don't know if they were

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-10518973260740337842009-03-05T01:12:00.009Z2009-03-05T01:58:09.215Z

I slept in today and got up and went to the Saachi Gallery. When I got there, outside were a bunch of British children all in awesome British uniforms. They looked very Oliver Twisty. I'd never heard of the gallery, or been by where it was, so I didn't know what to expect. I loved it. It was a nice and pretty big art gallery. The stuff there focused on the Middle Eastern relationship with the

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-41765526601952522009-03-04T01:56:00.002Z2009-03-05T00:28:45.829Z

I dreamed about Tiger Stadium last night and playing baseball, a dream I have from time to time, pretty much always the same. I’m excited to play TBB, ma is signing me up with the Cover team. Last year didn’t really end the way I wanted it to, so I’m excited for this year. I already have my pitch pattern for Jeff Valice down. Actually, I hope I don’t have to face him. I left Anj’s around 11

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-63752171064923385372009-03-02T22:41:00.005Z2009-03-05T00:50:19.529Z

I tried to get up at 8:30, but it ended up being more like 9:30. I slept relatively well, just that with not really sleeping the night before I needed it. Anj was long gone by the time I was up, so I showered and got ready in about a half hour.I walked down toward Old Town, stopping at Wencelas Square and getting a cheese sandwich off the street like Luke raved about. It was really good, I'll

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-12122809855948537922009-03-01T01:59:00.003Z2009-03-05T01:09:02.030Z

I got to the airport way too early, I could have left about an hour later. The bus picked me up right down the street, which was awesome. I even got to sleep a little before I left.Stansted Airport is a lot nicer than I assumed it would be. I stopped and had a Starbucks while I waited for my gate to be put on the board (Yes! Sorry, that’s a joke only for White Sox fans).I got a window seat near

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-69352964676350351702009-02-28T21:53:00.002Z2009-02-28T22:45:55.325Z

Today was the typical day before a trip. Didn't do a whole lot.Slept in for a while and went and changed some money out. Then I tried to go print out my bus and plane ticket. The library's computer weren't working because of some power outage that messed things up. So I didn't really know what to do so I walked to the Regent Street campus. The library there was closed. I finally went and took the

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Today was pretty awesome.I got up and booked a trip to Lisbon March 28-1. EasyJet has 25% off right now. I'm really pumped about going there, it looks gorgeous. Then wrote my paper at Starbucks outside because it was gorgeous outside, in the 50s and sunny.Then I walked down to Regent Park and explored for the first time. It's pretty big. There were people outside playing football and families

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-58393549324650147522009-02-26T23:42:00.005Z2009-02-27T00:45:26.873Z

First Tiger Stadium, then Yankee Stadium, now this. Out of all my favorite places in the world, the Borders on Michigan Avenue has been one of the ones I've had the most history at for around ten years, and it's only come to mean more to me as time went on. Hanging out with Ralph and Bill and walking down there every Thursday and on my breaks at lunch. I'm really upset to see it go, that was

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-64255345665621639842009-02-25T18:03:00.006Z2009-02-25T23:33:46.858Z

For, lo, the winter is past, The rain is over and gone; The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.Today is the first Tiger's Spring Training game. I really wish I could go back this year, I loved it last year. Hopefully next year it can become a tradition.My column ran today for RedEye, you can click on the image

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I woke up around 10 but wasn't really feeling up to Windsor today, I'm thinking Friday. I decided to have another museum day. I had to stop by the Wells Street campus and sign up for class tomorrow and then I made my way down to Trafalgar Square where a group of kids in medical attire threw someone in one of the fountains. No idea why, but I'm glad I saw it.I then went through Horse Guard's

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Today I went with CEA to Pancake Day at My Old Dutch restaurant. I had some trouble finding the place and ordered after everyone, but it was still good. I ordered the berries and ice cream one. It was basically like a crepe. The pancake itself was more buttery and sweet than usual. I loved it.I passed a Sainbury's on the way to the restaurant so I picked up the groceries I didn't get yesterday

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-20877794366179239292009-02-22T23:56:00.003Z2009-02-23T01:16:34.884Z

I got in around 6:15 but unfortunately the trains were open until 6:30 and the first train Victoria line train wasn't until 7, so I sat around for a while, killing my hopes of sleeping before I left for Oxford. I took the train to Oxford Circus and the transfer train wasn't going to be for a half hour so I walked back, showered and read about Oxford.I had some cereal and a veggie burger and got

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-4557204469223097192009-02-22T21:50:00.008Z2011-01-17T21:05:32.494Z

The train got in around 5:30. I didn't get nearly enough sleep. On top of that, there wasn't going to be anything open for a couple hours. So I picked up a map in the station (really small, basically enough for maybe 20 people, although they did have the first pay bathroom I've ever been in). It ended up being nice to have some time to figure out what I wanted to do. The maps I had gave the times

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-50031562785902825892009-02-22T21:15:00.003Z2009-02-22T21:48:56.041Z

I slept until 1. I was pretty beat. I went down to the library and printed off my boarding pass and a map of Beatle attractions. It took longer than I expected again, but I'm learning that I just shouldn't expect printing to go quick.I saw Phil and he wanted to get everyone together for dinner, so I thought that would be fun. I went with the hall to an Italian place on Baker Street just around

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We went to the Tate Britain for Art and Society (ironically) and went through the Van Dyck portrait exhibit. I enjoyed this trip there much more than my first one. The exhibition was pretty well done, and the subjects in the exhibition were also interesting, including a good amount of Charles I. Our professor showed us around some of the rest of the gallery, and he was far more interesting guide

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Today I had to get down to the Tate Modern for my writing class. Well it turns out I took turned the wrong way to get there and ended up at Tower Bridge. It was a nice day, so it wasn't too bad, but I was about 30 minutes late getting down there. I couldn't find the class anywhere. I looked through every single room in those galleries and couldn't find them anywhere. I have no idea where they

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I went to Highgate Cemetery in the afternoon. It seems like all I do is going to cemeteries now. This one was cool, it was another old one with huge monuments, much like Graceland in Chicago. Most of the graves date from the early to mid 1800s. And it was a cold, damp, dark day, perfect for cemetery weather.Most notably, there was a giant monument for the tomb of Karl Marx. Basically just his

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I slept until around 1:30 and woke up with a pretty bad headache. I got caught up online, and most notably received emails from Brian, here's the highlights.First, I need to send you some paperwork to fill out so we can get you on payroll. They are a pain, I know...As far as your column specifically. How about we do it casual and, say, you can do it every other week. My openings are usually on

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I set my alarm for 6 and kept hitting the sleep timer until 6:09. Then I must have just turned it off and went to sleep until 6:50. I got Kim and Heidi up and I went to shower. We got all our stuff together and went to find the bus station. The bus was going to leave at 8:20 but it said we had to be there to get tickets 15 minutes early. Well we didn’t see buses anywhere, we even asked some

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I didn’t sleep that much on the bus. First it was overbooked, so we had to wait around for the next one to come about a half hour later. Then when we got on the only seats left were backwards facing and next to a baby. Not the best conditions for sleeping, but it wasn’t that bad. We got in around 7 and walked to the hostel. Glasgow was completely empty. There was literally no one on the

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I woke up today and read my emails, and EasyJet is offering £5 off each way flights in March, so I booked Prague for March 1-3 and going to Munich and leaving from Berlin March 13-17. I'm excited, I'm glad I have them finalized.I met the Americans for lunch outside the Great Portland Street stop. They all had an English breakfast, but since it consists of basically all meat, I opted for a panini.

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For Art and Society we went to the Wallace Collection, which isn't too far from my dorm actually. It's a huge museum in an old mansion. The cool part was that it's basically unchanged since the time he lived there, and one of the stipulations in the museum is that is always has to remain free and nothing can leave the museum.The art was mostly baroque style, which is really not my favorite. There

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I've now been here for a month. It really few by, but looking back, I've really done a ton already, more than I thought I'd ever do. The real problem is going to be to try to follow up on it. I can cross the streets with relative ease (although I was almost hit by a truck today) and I can get most British slang. Best of all is that I have a feel for the city, I usually don't bring the GPS with me

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-11534232267936745232009-02-10T21:36:00.003Z2009-02-10T22:27:48.830Z

I had a strange night last night, falling asleep with the lights on while I was on the computer around 10:30, woke up around 2, went back to sleep, had nightmares and the wind howling at the window kept waking me up, and finally I woke up around 8 for the day.I went down to the Imperial War Museum around 10. It's in an old insane asylum, Bedlam, which I think I've heard of before. I was talking

Scott Bolohanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17538981318379130601noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7945684795466791286.post-86126347153759741862009-02-09T15:28:00.006Z2009-02-10T22:28:49.145Z

So my A-Rod column is running today. I'm excited. You can click on the image to read it.The BAFTAs thing didn't, I'm almost relieved, it just wasn't very good.I went didn't do too much today, got the blog together and just did some catching up. I went to Carphone Warehouse and got a new pay as you go SIM card with rates way better. Now I'm paying 2 pence to call home from anywhere in the world,

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I got up at 6 am to get a wristband for public viewing areas along the red carpet. The line was already pretty long by the time I got there, only about 15 minutes before they were supposed to distribute them. I figured I didn't really have a chance to get in. We waited in line for two hours before the wristbands were distributed numerically and we were to return at 3 in order to be let down by

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I got up later than expected and went right to Camden Market to meet Renee. I checked my email and mom said that Ringo sent me back my picture autographed. I was super excited and in somewhat disbelief. More on that later.It was a lot less crowded than the last one but there were a much greater variety of stores there, including a lot of vintage shops. But I didn't get anything.I went from there

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I slept well for the firs time in recent memory. I tried to sleep longer but I couldn't. My shower has been not draining very well, and today was no different. So I decided to try to fix it. I was playing around with the drain and twisted it until I could just yank off the top. The inside was disgusting. All sorts of muck and hair and general grossnes. I spent about an hour cleaning that out,

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