Haagen-Dazs *sigh*

Status: Knowing there will be regret for the entire pint of Vanilla Caramel Brownie

Okay, so, my cemetery search...

Kensal Green Cemetery thinks it fit to charge me at the bargain price of 500 pounds to film in their cemetery for 2 hours. I made it very clear to the lady that this was as amateur a production as you can get and, no, I won't be bringing trailers of actors with me and, no, I won't be making a profit out of it and, yes, I am a poor college student.
"Five-hundred pounds is the base price for all filming."

Brookwood Cemetery does not exists. At all.

St. Pancras/Islington is going to charge me a fee, as well. I was afraid to ask how much, but something tells me it was a bit more than my weekly allowance of fifty pounds, so, no thanks.

My dad's friend has another one I can try out in Acton Town, where he lives. It's a smaller one. If that doesn't work, I plan on going to a priest, mentioning that I'm Catholic and asking if he knows anywhere I can film and mentioning I'm Catholic and begging him to let me use the church's cemetery and reminding him that I'm Catholic. Do you think it'll work?

Or, my WONDERFUL roommate had an idea that I could film at the Hyde Park memorial for the victims of the bombings on July 7th, 2005. That, or any other public memorial would work just fine. I plan on changing my script a bit so I don't have to spend a ton of time there, anyway, so if the cemeteries fall through, that's where I'm headed.


OKAY NOW, enough of that. Today, Lia and I went to Regent Park and checked out the Queen's Gardens. Lia told me, "It's so pretty you'll...I dunno. You'll just touch yourself, I swear."


Yeah. I was nearly there.


I'm not sure I've seen a more gorgeous garden and it smelled AMAZING. The flowers were all just light enough in scent that nothing was too overwhelming.


So, I sat and read Dangerous Liasons in complete ecstasy and thought of more script stuff.

Then, I ate an entire pint of Haagen-Dazs. Shut up and don't judge. I'll be paying for it later, but it was so worth it.


Throwing out an idea here. I didn't hop onto the bandwagen of people going to Dublin. Nothing was too well put together and the trip would probably cost me a good 300 pounds.

But

Ian is going to Barcelona. This is significant because my two favorite books of all time take place in the early 1900s Barcelona. I mean, I've been dreaming of visiting Montjuïc Castle and Ciudadela Park since I read The Shadow of the Wind. And there are SO MANY other streets that I need to find. If I plan in advance, I think I could probably find a really cheap hostel to stay at and the flight wouldn't be too bad.

What do you think? If you think it's a bad idea, let me know, please.

Pip pip, cherrio and all that rot!