potions class and the rest of the weekend

so, friday...normal day...you know...oh wait, no, silly ellen, alan rickman came!
he came to do a q&a session, since he could only stay for an hour. so he walked in with this very stern snape-glare on his face. and i was scared. either he was going to take over the building (and since we didnt have bruce willis, what were we going to do????) or he was going to make us make a polyjuice potion, and i haven't praticed that one. but no, he immediately began answering questions, and was very kind, very funny, and cracked lots of jokes. here are the words of wisdom i gleaned from him:
put 120% of effort into everything.
after you've done that and put in the discipline, comes absolute artistic freedom.
take risks, and dare to screw up and be bad
listen very, very closely, and non-judgementally

after this, we were all on an absolute high. me and the boys in the flat next door went for a post-alan pint in camden, and then came back to watch lord of the rings. becuase we have these moments when we're overwhelmingly cool...

the next day, i decided to actaully get out into london, and went to the tower of london! we took a tour with a very friendly and boisterous beefeater, ran after the ravens, and saw the crown jewels. then we came back to all go out to dinner for jason's big 21st birthday dinner and went to the moose, a good local pub, to finish off the night.

sunday was a restful day, with some cheap shopping at primark.
so all in all, a perfect weekend!
love,
ellen