London! Iona and I got one headache apiece in various overheated department stores, got free coffees at Pret (because Iona has "a nice smile"; however on my way home the guy at the AMT stand was intensely flirtatious - "Where are you going?" "[Name of town]" "I bet they love you there" - so it all balanced out), participated in a market survey and probably made the Filofax marketing board cry by describing it as a staid brand for middle-aged people, considered the purchase of fake cherry-blossom branches where the flowers light up, and sat on the floor in Borders debating which Disney films were best (The Lion King, The Little Mermaid). When Ella got off work after an entire day of photocopying, we all went for fairly posh hamburgers and chilli fries, followed by G&Ts. The G&Ts were consumed listening to Datarock's "Fa Fa Fa", which was incongruous but delightful in a British pub.
It was very good to see them both, and reassuring in a way that going to Cambridge isn't always - they're in the same sort of situation as me, and also it somehow seems important to confirm that university people exist outside the university setting.
Cloverfield: I liked it; they could have afforded to be even more naturalistic with the script, but in general it felt like a standard-issue monster film with (most of) the annoying parts taken out. And in spite of any number of chocolate-coated brazil nuts, I didn't feel sick until I got out into the parking lot, at which point I weaved about dizzily.
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