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I'm going to Cardiff for two days, which I will mostly spend out of the city on tours that come back around 5:30. The Red Dragon Centre, where they have a Doctor Who exhibition, closes at 6:30 and it's at the very least a 20 minute walk from the tour's drop off point. At times like this I really wish I could run. I might beg the driver if it might be possible to leave me someplace closer so I can at least run around for half an hour. And that's if the tour gets back at 5:30 and not later. *mopes* I am such a geek.

Still thinking whether I should spend yet another $315 to go to Budapest for two days. I so don't have time for another trip, but no is when I know I can. It's not like I go off to other countries every other year and with the future job situation who knows how things will play out. I am so not telling dad how much money I'm spending here. No way. It's my money, anyway, but he gets this stern frown on his face when I steer away from financial sense. Then again, this is the man who spent $2,000 on a camera and didn't want to admit it.

I hate the cost of transport in this country. At some point back there on the National Rail website, I found a round trip to York for 29 pounds, and now I can't find it again. Everything is 60 something or other. Crap, crap, crap! I just want to get on a train at the crack of dawn and get on the last train back so I don't have to spend for a hotel but still get the whole day. These tours... they don't give you the whole day. It's like 6 hours and that's it. And I like planning my own day, thank you. And not being part of a group that doesn't consist of my cousins. I don't do well by myself with a group of strangers. Although I'm going to have to go on some in continental Europe just to make my life easier. I just want to get on a train and go somewhere. I've lived here for a year and I still haven't gotten out of this city. Where did I go for my big trip? Mexico. *head desk* Which I wanted to go to, but it's screwed up. Seeing as how it's across the ocean. When I still haven't traveled on this side of the ocean. Except Ireland. Five years ago.

On other sad news, I have yet to watch the new episodes of Heroes. I'm not sure why. I've watched Reaper. But Heroes I seem to be avoiding. I'll watch them today, but I do feel like I'm forcing myself. I don't get it. This is completely unprecedented. I suspect the novel has something to do with it.

I've finally started working again, though I wouldn't call it studying since I'm only skimming over books to determine what to take copies of to take to PR so I can work on the dissertation. Actual exam studying is still to come. If I can only get myself out of the travel websites.