The Top Floor Flat

Just a quick recap of some of the things I mentioned over the last week but never followed up on:

• The Colby in the City Alumni event was wonderful and, of course, I neednt’ have worried.  I was a bit nervous when I first got there as I met up with four other Colby grads who all worked in investment banking (one of them with Lehmans) and were understandably stressed about their jobs but I had no idea what they were talking about… but then we found out that the rest of the group, which included half a dozen more Colby students, a handful of people from Bowdoin, one girl from Bates and some other NESCAC alumns were on the other side of the room.  With no disrespect meant to bankers, I quickly left the doom and gloom of their conversation and met some incredibly interesting people with whom I hope to meet up again soon.
• I don’t have any good foodie photos from this week as I haven’t made anything that special but I’ve been introduced to an amazing website which hopefully will lead to more food pictures and recipes.  It’s called Super Cook and allows you to insert the ingredients you have in your kitchen and it gives you recipes that match what you have.  Will probably be most useful for finding useful ways to get rid of my rapidly expiring perishables.
• My friends Sarah and Steve will be returning from Sydney and their wedding on Monday and I’m so excited to have them back! Dancing just wasn’t the same while they were gone and I skipped more classes than was strictly necessary blaming lack of sleep but it definitely had something to do with the fact I disliked going alone.
• Busy, busy week at work but lots of exciting things happening at Spoonfed including a series of university newsletters that give events, deals and freebies to students of the different London schools.  First one should be out the week after next.

Tomorrow I’m off to chessboxing which is a class where you are taught chess skills and boxing techniques, then matched up against and opponent to play 4 minutes of chess alternated with 3 minutes of boxing.  You win with a checkmate or a KO.  Don’t worry the whole thing is instructed and it’s more about mental and physical fitness then punching someone out.  I’ll give a brief recap here but I’m writing a full review for Spoonfed which should be live early next week.

Also coming soon, the recap of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s birthday in the park before I forget about it completely.  *Whew* what a week!