Being a patchy account of fourteen months in London by a homosexual American academic. The fourteen months are over, and so is this blog. Saturday, July 08, 2006. A Final Post, on the occasion of the anniversary of the July 7 bombings. Recently, to tell the truth. The July 7 anniversary seemed like a nice, non-arbitrary occasion to take the plunge. Because July 7 really did mark a turning point for me. It marks the moment that I began to feel like a Londoner. That magazine cover is now posted behind my.