Long time no update! Not much exciting stuff has been going on, thus the lack of entries. My mom and Larry are back in the States. I saw Iron Man 2 last night. My sleep schedule has been almost entirely reversed. This morning I was on Skype until past sunrise. Since there isn’t any sun or light or joy in London, past sunrise looks a lot like before sunrise. I spent most of this disgustingly rainy day packing, unpacking, and repacking to try and fit everything for my week away into one of my carry-on-sized bags to no avail.

At around 4am, I’ll catch a bus to another bus to the airport and head for Berlin to visit Kevin! Elise and Sarina will also be there for one night. I’m there until Wednesday morning, at which point I will fly back to London, chill in the airport for a couple of hours, then head to Fuerteventura, Spain. A lot of people have asked where exactly this is, and it’s here. Will I go to Morocco just to say I’ve been? Maybe. But it’s more likely that I will spend Wednesday to Sunday on the beaches of Fuerteventura and Gran Canaria being lazy, getting sunburned, and generally not giving a crap about anything. I have my own room, which is divine. It’ll be a lot like the majority of this semester - minus the sunburn.

I’ll be back the afternoon of the 9th, then I have a few days before heading back home, where I have neither an apartment nor a finalized job. I had a semi-nightmare last night that I got an internship at the company I wanted, but they said I was too stupid to work in a real division so they put me in the cake-making division, where it would be my job to look for ingredients. My coworkers were all pretentious and mean. I took the job because I had no other options. I don’t think I’m the only person having trouble getting something this summer. I just happen to be friends with all of the people who have had fabulously glamorous paid internships at extremely prestigious companies in their respective fields secured for months now. Oh well. To Berlin!

— Lauren