I started the day a little waif-like. I had lots to do and I didn't feel like doing any of it. I felt restless and unfocused, and so although I did force myself to sit and do my readings, it was really hard! Eventually I couldn't sit still anymore, and so I went to collect a package from an Amazon locker in an eerie car park. The lockers were a gorgeous shade of yellow, warm and sunflowery, and completely out of place in the grey underground car park, with the alarm going off erratically somewhere in the caverns of the dark corners I couldn't see! You have to scan a bar code from an email, and then the locker with your package in springs open and it is so exciting.
I wrote this in the coffee shop I found next to the bookstore on my way back:
I was feeling a
little bit down, but then God took me, specifically today, to a strange part of
London, an empty parking lot with a locker called Ramiz, and that led to my
discovery of another bookstore, whose name I am not sure of, with elderberry
gin and coconut and berry cake and earl grey tea. I was feeling down, what with
London being nearly gone, and lots of work still to do, and just generally all
the last days/exams blues. Now here I am. Beautiful.
The waitress was so helpful and lovely and I got so sit and stare out the window in my own little nook, nestled into the corner of the bright and buzzing coffee shop. Somehow I seemed to notice all the orange books! It certainly lifted my mood. And the Elderberry gin probably helped... It didn't taste much like gin, and I've never tasted elderberries, so I wasn't sure what to expect.
As you can see, today was mainly spent working. I'm afraid my next posts won't be very eventful, because I have a ten page history to write and more reading to do. I'm so sad that my time in London is almost over! It was my last Saturday today.
AW
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