present day

Last weekend was wonderful, as usual. Friday night we had a dinner at a nice restaurant in Soho picked by Juliet -- she took Zach Sam and I out to dinner as a way of saying thank you for letting her stay the summer (instead of trying to figure out how/whether she should pay rent etc). Then we went out and all got a bit drunk at a bar nearby.

Then Sat. I slept in because I was exhausted from a week of waking up at 7am for the FT and then staying out at night with Juliet (who didn't wake up until 11 or noon!). Juliet got called in to work at the New York Times office in London because they were short-staffed and needed help because of the terrorism story (she had met the head of the bureau through a mutual friend). She did some interesting work -- more interestng than anything I've done in two weeks at the FT -- and she even got paid! Then in the evening we went to Farley (juliet's house). We missed dinner because we got on the wrong train...Oy.

Then Sunday was a day of lazy adventures in the countryside. Slept in, went out for a walk picking blackberries, just relaxed watching TV and listening to music.

Now Juliet has gone to Scotland for a family vacation, but Tim and Ian will be in London on Wednesday/Thursday, and Juliet will be back on Friday. Going camping Friday-Monday at a music festival (v-festival).