London Monday...

Here's a quick update on London life:
Yesterday: work at BBDO...Katie, Kaitlin, Kayla and I took the Tube in early in time for breakfast and had a great morning catch-up session on our weekends.  We had pranked Steph earlier last week by decorating his desk with a bunch of cutouts and pictures of his favorite football team's archrivals...it would have been the equivalent of covering an ND grad's workspace with USC gear.  Everybody in the office thought we were hilarious and to be honest, so did we.  He wasn't at all mad yesterday morning and actually left most of the "decorations" up...although he's now claiming that he's plotting to get us back, so we'll see how that works out...Also, Tom K, one of the men in my department, brought exciting news yesterday that his wife is expecting their first child!  He was adorably excited and it was SO much fun to congratulate him and watch him flash the sonogram pictures around, totally beaming with pride.

Then it was off to PWC, where we had a class on the global recession.  My team also had the chance to sit down with one of the company's IFRS transition specialists to discuss our final project, a comparison of the UK's IFRS implementation to the planned US convergence.  She had a lot of great information and gave us an awesome perspective on the project, which should be a great help.  I had a moderately uneventful night of trying to meet up with two piccolo alums who were in London, but due to crossed wires, mixed signals and our mutual failure to top up our phones, we weren't able to get together.  Sad day!  I went to the Exmouth Arms with most of my spring break group, and the bartender let me pull a pint of Guinness the real way.  It was super exciting!
How to Pull the Perfect Pint:
1. Putting the spigot of the tap against the glass, tilt glass to a 45-degree angle with the bar.
2. Fill about 3/4 of the way full...pull the tap down and just let it go!
3. Level the glass and let it fill almost all the way.
4. Once the glass is near-full, to eliminate excess "head" (foam on top of the beer, don't get dirty-minded!), submerge the spigot IN the head and tilt the glass.  The extra foam will just run off the top and make a mess on the bar (and your feet, if you're standing too close), but you will have the perfect pint...

I was so excited!  And it was really good, although according to the bartender, my pint had an unacceptable amount of foam.  Even so, I like it like that...Guinness foam is my favorite part of the beer, which I'm sure makes me a completely pathetic excuse for a Guinness-drinker.  Oh well!  (I kept the pint glass as a souvenir.)  IF anyone ever needs a pint, you know where to find me!  ;)

Today's been very quiet...library noon tea at the London Centre and now I'm getting work done in the library...but this afternoon we're going on a private tour of Parliament, courtesy of one-and-only Parliamentary intern Charles Landis, 1/5 of Team Hot Route!  I'm super excited, as we are a: getting to see Parliament and b: doing it for FREE.  YAY.  Then it's to the Old Vic Theatre for "Six Degrees of Separation," the first play we're seeing for my Intro To London Theatre class.  I'm excited!

Paris posts will continue probably tomorrow as I have a lot to get done in the next 24 hours...til then, CHEERS!