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Hey everybody, welcome to the new place. I never planned to invest any real time in what this site looked like, but after today, I couldn't help it...

This being my first day off in awhile, I planned to spend a good part of the day in the Tate Modern. But as I was heading over there, I decided to hang out with Cassandra and Katie for awhile since they were in the area. I met up with them at Tower of London, but we got out of there as soon as we saw the outrageous prices for tourist London. We wandered over Tower Bridge and into some riverside alleyways on the South Bank that had recently been renovated into a pretty cool little area. Still wandering, but now soaking wet from a monsoon, we stumbled upon the Design Museum. It being a) cheap b) warm and dry and c) interesting to Cassandra since she’s in a Modern Architecture class right now, we went in. And then, to your dismay dear readers, I learned everything there is to know about design: industrial design, graphic design, FASHION DESIGN, and, yes, web design.

And so, with my new knowledge and my new boredom (this being the third night in a row I’ve not gone out, partly to give myself a chance to rest after a busy month, and partly to give my wallet one, too), I set off into new lands of blogging. There’s only so much YouTube you can watch after three nights anyway, so web design was a welcome challenge. Besides, I had toyed around with web design once before, and found it incredibly tedious but actually really cool once I got the hang of it.

So anyway, herewith the unveiling of redhead in london v. 2.0. All the old blog entries (and all your old comments) are still here, there’s also a fancy “about me” page you can click on, and I’m hoping to add an entire page of photo albums if I can figure out how Google will let me do that. I’ll try to keep adding fun stuff to ease my boredom and yours. Either that or I’ll be back up to my old tricks this weekend and not have ten seconds free for an update for another month. We shall see.

Lastly, I’ve rescheduled my trip to the Tate Modern for tomorrow, so here’s hoping I don’t come home knowing everything there is to know about modern art…

N.B. I'm still figuring out the whole photo thing. For now, I've uploaded and organized my photos via Google's PicasaWeb (since I use the free Picasa software), and you can go there and look at any of the albums and slideshows. There aren't captions or anything yet, and at some point I hope to be able to embed them more easily on here. But I'm really bad at this stuff. Until then, you can find the link on the left-hand bar underneath my "About Me."