Can somebody please explain to me the weather in Western Europe?

July 17th, 2007
London, England

After staying out later than I intended to last night, I needed a caramel macchiato to jumpstart my day, so I went to the Starbucks that is literally three doors down from my dorm and did just that. I took the Tube to school, where we had our first real lecture before taking a mini field walk around the Marylebone area, where many "Jack the Ripper" suspects once lived. It was nice.

After the walk, I went to lunch at a delicious sandwich shop with a few of my classmates, and had a great schnitzel sandwich on Ciabetta bread. Then I went to Anderson's and booked my tour to Stonehenge and Bath, before FINALLY getting a haircut at a hair salon nearby. Then I made a trip to the post office and went back to H&M to attempt to try on the clothes I wanted to try on the day before. Well, this H&M is so big and popular that they apparently change everything every day. The racks were completely different, and yesterday's clothes had disappeared. I did, however, still manage to find a couple of things.

On the tube ride home, I was reading Jack the Ripper: A Definitive History, and all of a sudden a spider starts to crawl down the page I am on...as if it appeared out of thin air. Well, spiders are one thing that really creeps me out and I was extremely startled. I jumped, and slammed the book shut. The tube was relatively crowded, and everyone tried real hard not to laugh at me (I was not with anyone I knew, so it was all strangers), but some of them didn't quite make it. People laughed at me until I got off at my stop, and even then a couple that got off at the same place as I did could not stop laughing.

After swinging by the dorm, I headed to the park to read some of Jack the Ripper's history for awhile, and to read Roy Porter's "London: A Social History." I came back from reading, made some pasta, made a Facebook photo album, and then went back to the park for a run. I ran/walked for about two hours straight. It was incredible!!