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\nI spent the last few days walking around trying to familiarize myself with everything in the broad day. The other night on my way back from Eliza and The Phoenix I got lost. Every street looks the same and my ‘remember the roundabout’ theory didn’t work. There are roundabouts everywhere. <\/p>\n

Par Example<\/strong><\/center>
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\"Roundabout\"\/<\/a><\/center> <\/p>\n

I’ve found a grocery store, a liquor store and several little convenience stores and I know the number of streets I have to turn down to get to them all. I keep twenty pounds – about thirty five dollars – in my pocket at all times just in case I get lost. I can get a cab even if it’s just around the corner. Bella said only use Black Cabs because otherwise it could be any ole sex offender with a neon sign. Paul (the housemate) told me to ignore Bella and that if I wanted my money to last I better start shopping at the Co-op or Somerfield, “Tesco will kill you.” Tesco’s a grocery store in the city center. They have loads of French and Indian food but no buttermilk.<\/p>\n

The convenience stores around here are all pretty small. The aisles are narrow and gritty and they sell some kind of beer in two-liter plastic containers to kids who look twelve. I’ve not managed to do a proper shop yet. I’m afraid my money will run out. I buy a Twix Bar and a Sunny D every day and that’s all. I eat nothing else. I’ve lost six pounds. Bella’s fixing dinner tonight. She said “I love to cook for people. Everybody calls me Monica.” Like, from Friends. <\/p>\n

20 August 1998<\/em><\/p>\n

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Continued… I spent the last few days walking around trying to familiarize myself with everything in the broad day. The other night on my way back from Eliza and The Phoenix I got lost. Every street looks the same and my ‘remember the roundabout’ theory didn’t work. There are roundabouts everywhere. Par Example I’ve found<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hum-drum"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buffyholt.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}