I have recently signed up to StyleRoom and uploaded a few photos of my flat. It's a pretty cool website, and I'm thinking I might make a post asking for advice re: a new sofa, since ours is slowly dying (creaking away every time we sit down). Right now I'm thinking the Charlie sofa from Sofa Workshop, but I really don't have the money right now so it'll have to wait. On the other hand, I do have the money for a Louis Ghost chair, which I ordered yesterday. I can't wait to get it delivered! For one, it's going to be SO much more comfortable than the current Ikea chair we have, which was never meant to be a desk chair. I decided to stick to black though, as I've discovered more and more I love to have a white/black canvas with lots of colour accents in-between.
Now, two things that have made me happy lately. After my post on StyleRoom, I was featured on decorology, and interior design/decorating blog. So thanks Ashley for that!
The other thing was getting a message from an ex-coursemate from my course in Oxford, complimenting me on the Oxfam report I helped write, and how it's actually made a change - which according to N, seems to be a pretty unusual consequence among Development Studies folks... It was a great feeling to know the report I put so much work into is actually read/appreciated!
Lastly, today I was in London for a Med School Fair, which was per se fairly uninteresting (especially as very few people turned up!), but as I sat outside St Barts Hospital I fell in love with London all over again. I was reminded of a great post by an Italian girl living in London (which I cannot link to as it is a private post on Livejournal!), about how the beauty of London does not lie in its cultural richness, its pretty tree-lined streets, its elegance, but is rather a consequence of its hardness and its grubbiness and its dirtiness. Wherever I end up, I am utterly convinced London will always hold a very special place in my heart because it feels MINE and it feels like HOME like no other place ever has. Not even Oxford.