We started presentations today. Nicole went first and talked about Christopher Wren, which was pretty interesting though she did kind of just read from a paper but I’m not really one to talk since that’s pretty much what I’m going to do. The second was James who presented on Charles Babbage but his was kind of boring and a bit scattered, and long. We ran upstairs, some literally since for the past couple of days only one elevator has been working, ate lunch and then assembled back downstairs for our trip to the Royal Society. The Royal Society was kind of interesting. We got a bit of a tour from the archivist there and he pulled different things on each person’s ingenious person except for the three of us who had people not belonging to the Royal Society. It was kind of cool to look at the handwriting of William Hershel (who had fantastic handwriting by the way), Charles Babbage, James Cook, and others along with and instrument of Christopher Wren’s and some other things. The tour did not take that long and since the Royal Society could offer me nothing in the way of research, I did not really feel like bothering them by becoming a reader there. That’s really all that’s happened, James presented today, Amanda and Ryan present tomorrow and I present on Wednesday so it’s basically been presentation crackdown time. We do have a list though, of things we want to do after presentations are over. I still haven’t had time to investigate the TV yet, although on the 2nd while walking back to the Tube, I passed a poster for Secret Diary of a Call Girl which is a TV show I watched last semester. Today I looked it up on the internet and through some clicking came across another show on the same network called Lost in Austen. Basically, it’s about a modern girl who switches places with Elizabeth Bennett and the plotline chaos that ensues. I’ve been watching it all day because it’s a streaming video and the internet here does not like streaming videos.