bagel/beigel?

I have been, as recently as yesterday, unconvinced of my driving motives in life. What am I doing, studying art, walking around in underpants in my flat downloading music obsessively and continually checking out books that 'look neat' and have neat pictures that relate to my subject and never reading them? Today I realized, even though I should have realized before, that my goal to know London, is pushed forward by my studying art. There are over 200 art galleries in the Greater London area and I am, as a student of 'Arts in Contemporary Society,' museum and curating division, ideally supposed to visit as many as I can.

Today I went to the White Cube galleries and more all around the East London area, around Old Street and continuing, unknowingly when I started, down towards Brick Lane (shady old haunting grounds of Jack the Ripper type killers undeniably sketchy filled with curry houses and arabic businesses). The White Cube gallery is fairly well known, occupying a nice-looking building around Hoxton Sq. The rest, however, were quite a surprise. Housed in buildings with no windows, with only a doorbell and sloppily painted numbers to know where they are. Buildings with wood floors that smell like it. I couldn't even find three of the galleries I was looking for. I entered the slowly arising ghettos of East London. It was a blast. What turned from a rather gloomy day, the first hour of my waking spent on my newly acquired computer simulation game (THE MOVIES), and almost literally dragging my but out the door, turned into one of learning and pleasant 'beigel' eating and strolling.

So, this past week, one certain Alex was here. We ate out about 85 times, got drunk about 12, and saw 3 musicals. No, really, that musical number at the end there is correct. Here is a photo essay:
1. We went to Hyde Park and saw the 5.2million pound Princess Diana of Wales Memorial Fountain. As you can see, it is a piece of shit. Alex wasn't impressed.
2. We saw a matinee of Les Miserables on Wednesday afternoon and saw We Will Rock You (the Queen musical) on Wednesday evening. Maybe needless to say, I still love Les Miserables 50x more than anythiny in my LIFE.
3. We went to some pubs. We like pubs. Brits like pubs. Even Macalester kids like Ben Garnett like pubs.
4. The Museum Foundation (this doesn't exist, actually) of Britain really likes to use the same museum architect in all their museums. How can I tell? Because they all use this little space-expanding trick using mirrors and video screens.