Hello BlogFriends!

I’m sure that my temporary absence has been severely missed, or perhaps likelier, completely unnoticed, but I’ve been in a bit of a rush lately. A mere ten days ago, two of Johnny’s friends, Andy and Frank, stayed with me for the weekend. This meant I finally cleaned my room, and went so far as to drag the vacuum all the way up my stairs, as my elevator is broken. Yet by the time they arrived, it was back to its usual state between messy and nook-like.

Fortunately, I got to practice all of my unnecessary London knowledge on them, like the year of the London fire (1666), and what defined ‘the City’, when we went to meet up with Momo and Matt and some of their work friends to try ‘proper ale’. They also met a couple of the kids on my floor, and I can now have backup in admitting that some of them are in fact crazy. I also managed to get Frank and Andy in trouble when I gave them the keys to the dorm. After being reprimanded, they had to resort to McGuyver-esque stunts to lock the door before leaving.

On their last night, Frank and Andy decided that it would be easier to stay awake rather than sleep before leaving at four AM. As Ainsley, Alexis and Ginger were getting in two hours after that, I agreed it seemed like a pretty good idea. So we decided to go to the always fabulous Elephant and Castle (sarcasm doesn’t always come across in a blog), where we had planned to go techno-dancing. After some complications, we did not in fact get to Ministry, so we went to a pub across the road that seemed to be a mix of a nail salon, poor high school gym dance, and the scum of the underworld. It was glorious. There has never been a mix of funnier people congregated in one place and I learned so much about dancing.

The night hit a high note when the 85-year-old “Callum the Irish Drunkenman” asked me to dance. Which I did happily, before he thanked Frank and Andy for letting him dance with their wife. Several people recorded our incredible dance sequence, so I plan on scouring YouTube later to find it. I’m quite sure no one has ever been more confused by a situation, and I’d like to have been able to tell you that it was a strange situation, but it is starting to seem rather typical.

I had been planning on writing about my girls’ visit as well, but I’ll get around to it tomorrow.

Location: Elephant and Castle