Kelsey needs...

Here's something dorky you can do on google: Type your name and then "needs" into the search box and see what comes up.  Apparently I need many things.

Kelsey needs...

1.)to stop being a mat for everyone to walk on

2.)to find a home that will treat her like the little princess she is

3.)to learn how to dance

4.)some sleep

5.)a cool myspace name

6.)a family who will adopt him and his brother (yes HIM)

7.)anger management

8.)more camera time

9.)her mom

10.)to be in a mental institution... she was trying to kill the ducks at the park... while making extremely annoying duck noises...

That last one is by far the best!

Camera Fun

Can you tell what this is:

How 'bout now:

You guessed it!  A rose!

I'm not sure who sent this!  It's from "a secret admirer from the office".  I don't know what office they're talking about.  I keep thinking of the tv show.  I think it might be from my landlord which is a little weird- what office could it be?!?  Did someone back home send this as a joke?  It sure was nice to get a valentine even if I can't figure out who it's from.  I think I'm going to make some rose petal jam.  Yum Yum.

Snow Day!!

We woke to 3-4 inches this morning.  No school because of the long commutes!

Finsbury Park just across the street  

  

I don't think London gets this stuff very often.  Kinda special.  It's been warm- well, in the 40s- so I've been thinking of spring.  I stopped wearing my winter coat and almost packed up my sweaters.  This may have been brought on by the fact that my room feels like the tropics and I have to strip as soon as I get inside.  But now my running might be on hold because I'm a whimp and my hyacinth looks a bit funny.   Argh- and it's sideways!

Yes, I live in a hotel.  Glamourous?  No, not really.

New Digs

Here's my new place!  I feel like I live in a hallway.  Didn't think I could get much smaller than my place in Guerneville but somehow I managed.   Hate to think what my next place will be!  But actually it's absolutely perfect for me.  One of the things I've been enjoying most is that I can bake all I want and so far that has mostly consisted of banana bread.  I've brought some to class already, and the lady next door just gave me two rotten bananas (random) so I told her I'll bake her some bread.  She doesn't speak english much at all so I think she'll be surprised when I bring her a loaf and tell her the bananas are inside.  Apparently no one else does banana bread.  When I brought it to school they said it was a cake.  I guess so, but bread sounds healthier. 

There are a few quirks to this place which hopefully won't be a big deal.  One of them is the heat.  It has two settings: tropical and off.  And it takes anywhere from 2-5 hours to turn on after being off so I've learned to open the window if I need some air and wear shorts and a tank top most of the time.  It makes for great plant grow though.  The hyacinth on the window sill is already beginning to bloom and I took this pic 2 days ago.  I'll have to make a garden.

Oh the Power and Beauty of Musical Theater!

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Global Health Debate

Here is a BBC debate that I was able to attend.  They discussed maternal health, private vs public funds, population growth, and basically just how interventions should be run. The panelists were representing some pretty powerful organizations so it was interesting to compare their views.  It's not all that riveting but has some good moments.  It was cool to be on a tv set!  All the cameras and lights and watching the hostess do her thing.  I'm sitting on the far side where the hostess was standing and you don't really see me very much (thankfully because I was probably scratching my nose at all the wrong times)  You can tell where I am a bit just because I seem to become a pale blurr with my hair and my face. 

My bravest moment

I want to cling to the ground just looking at this!
A friend just sent me this picture from Copenhagen.  This is the scariest thing I've ever done in my life.  Sky diving was nothing compared to this.  I'm sitting because I couldn't stand I was shaking so badly.  I'm so glad there is a picture to document it even if it doesn't look quite as high as it felt.  It's a great shot.

  This is the Church of Our Savior and the spiral dates back to the 1700s.  The railing was lower than hip height where I am and you can see how the stairs were getting narrower until they ended completely where Brian is standing and taking my picture.  On the climb up inside the building there was an old clock tower and we could see all the original gears from the 1600s with the King's seal.  Then the huge bells and old rope.  It really was amazing; we just stumbled upon it and wer

e the only ones there.  We were looking for Christiania, the famed self-governed radial commune area and we thought maybe we could see it from up there and sure enough we found it- we could see the entire city!  

I just read that it is now closed for repairs so I'm glad I crawled the last few steps.  This was definitely more dangerous than skydiving in my book.

(And I've decided that this blog won't have much to do with school because that's all I do the rest of the day.  Unless I feel like writing further about morbidity compression or statistical power I'll just keep posting silly things.)