I checked myself in at the YWCA

i'll have to stop this half a person theme soon, as i think i've exhausted it. hopefully this will be the most boring of my entries, as i really haven't done anything yet, but i also have no one to talk to, so i feel like recounting my journey. the flight was fantastic, considering i love airplane food, i got to choose my own movies, and i only had to go to the bathroom twice. more importantly, i had a great view flying over toronto last night, during which i said goodbye and thought of all the tiny people i was saying goodbye to below.

this morning was considerably more difficult, as i had about 140 pounds worth of bags to drag from the airport onto the tube and a bus and to my new front door. luckily a few nice gentlemen helped me along the way, and called me 'love'. at one point i looked pretty pathetic trying to drag two giant suitcases up two flights of stairs-- apparently handicapped people don't take the subway here. also, it was four pounds for the tube and two for the bus, which seems ridiculously expensive, and you couldn't buy tickets at the bus station, but they let me pay on the bus even though there was a sign saying you couldn't, which at the time, on no sleep, and dragging those mother-fing bags was all very stressful. i also stopped at the wrong front door, and a very nice looking boy was there and i tried to explain the situation but i must have sounded like a sweaty idiot, which was compounded by my realizing that this was not actually the right door.

but i got here and i slept for a few hours, thankfully, and now it's dark and i'm starving but i don't have any idea where to get food, so i'm just going to wait for my other roommates to get here and hopefully they'll bring up the subject. it's not exactly caesar's palace, but i can certainly get used to it. my bed is extraordinarily small, so anyone hoping to visit me better be ready to spoon. i've already met carl (karl?) who is in a band but seems about as shy as me, so we are both on our laptops with bbc news in the background; it's hilarious, because the biggest news story right now is that it's exceptionally cold here-- "the temperature is barely above freezing in many areas today, and in some cases, the ice is very difficult to see". indeed, hundreds of people have already fallen on the ice on their front steps. the government is giving a 25 pound bonus to everyone living in a place where the forecast is below 0 for 7 days in a row-- i don't think i qualify though.