Victoria and Albert

I spent this morning and a good part of the afternoon in the good old Victoria and Albert Museum. It is a very large institution and I managed to walk through almost the entire thing (though I did start to walk faster towards the end). I took around 152 pictures (some of which are on facebook). There was this one really great exhibit called "Telling Tales: Fantasy and Fear in Contemporary Design." It was AMAZING. I might go see it again if I have a chance. There were some really beautiful and really creepy things in it. Then I had to spend a good deal of time looking at a stained glass panel by Morris in preperation for my paper. The reward was though that then Laura, Emma, and I all had tea. :)

I finally slogged through the rest of Morris' utopia News from Nowhere and squeaked in my response on time. We went to Benito's Hat again, and it was delicious again. Got pork this time though instead of chicken. Slighly messier, but enjoyable.

Emma needed to get a copy of Time and the Conways so we took the tube over to the Southbank. We took a wrong turn when we got out of Waterloo station though and ended up across a bridge and too far down the Thames. We had to walk all the way to the Waterloo Bridge and back over to end up almost exactly where we started. The bookstore looked closed when we got there, but thankfully it was open. Then, in an effort to amble around London less, I tried to take a more direct route back to the station than I had the last time we were there. We just ended up wandering through some back streets for a while though until we got to station instead. We saw this one building that was somehow cemented up and somewhat gutted from the inside....very strange. But, we eventually made it home.

So now I'm very worn out, but I have to be up early tomorrow because we're going on our three day "field trip" to Oxford and the Cotswolds. Fun.