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The Evening Standard is a free news publication that you can pick up in tube stations across London. Tonight Trace was looking through it and pointed out an article to me, "about the states" he said. The headline read, "Man Sues Hardware Store over Practical Joke". Basically the story said that a man had gone to the bathroom in a hardware store and someone had put glue on the toilet seat, glueing him to the seat. This was funny to us, first of all, because this is what makes the news in London about the US, but then we noticed where the hardware store was located: Lousville, CO. "Huh, Colorado," Trace said, "Do you know where Louisville is?" Maybe it's not front page news, but I felt proud nonetheless that my state was represented in the Evening Standard.
Several people have asked me what exactly a personal assistant does. My answer is, anything, everything. Today I helped hang wallpaper. Then I went to the grocery store to pick up lunch, fresh pasta sauce for dinner, and biscuits to go with pate that Janet can take when she goes to the country this weekend. It's a good thing that Malcolm tuned me into the whole biscuit/cookie/cracker debaucle before I came to London, because not only have I never eaten pate, but I could have spent hours in the grocery store trying to figure what biscuits you eat with pate before I realized that biscuits are what they call crackers here. After the grocery store I went to the dry cleaners and then I finished out the day making christmas signs that she can hang up in her bar. It's really difficult work, let me tell you.