All I really want to do is eat huge amounts of chocolate, smoke myself hoarse and then go to bed.

Of course I'm not supposed to eat chocolate, I gave up smoking and it isn't bed time.

Hmph.

I know this is kind of last-minute, but if anyone is interested, there is an event on Thursday 22nd January to mark the release of the new film "Girl with a Pearl Earring", based on the novel of the same name by Tracy Chevalier. Screenwriter Olivia Hetreed and (with any luck) producer Andy Paterson will show extracts from the film and give a talk ( Read more... )

Four days and counting...
I knew it was going to be hard, but gosh, it actually is hard...
I don't smoke. No, I don't ( Read more... )

Went over to East London yesterday afternoon (con meeting at lolliepopp's house). Took the dog with me because I thought she might be upset if I disappeared with no warning after Nick packed and left for America. I am sooo glad I did ( Read more... )

There never was such a time for making me feel like a small independent country, probably somewhere in the Balkans.

Oh, I do want self-determination. Or just determination, actually.

Seeing as how adjectivemarcus has reintroduced the poetry meme, I thought I'd put in one here that I always liked.

( Lament for a Lost Dinner Ticket )

This week has not really been a good week. There has been way, way too much intervention from She Who Must Be Avoided, too much multi-multi-tasking (not to mention minionating), and on Tuesday when I was going home, somebody fell in front of my train at Russell Square. He did survive, I hasten to add, but only because our train stopped in time ( Read more... )

Wednesday and Thursday spent doing computer training in totally soporific hermetically sealed room in Holborn. For lunch went to small cafe I used to patronise when I worked just round the corner. I hadn't been in there for about two years, but they still remembered me. Despite the different hair and different glasses ( Read more... )

It took 3 hours to get home from work last night. H & C line to Kings Cross, checked out Piccadilly line - amazingly crowded platform. After 10 minutes there is an announcement that no Piccadilly lines are going past Hyde Park Corner. Go to look at Northern line, and can't even get onto the platform. Choose Victoria line. Trundle down to ( Read more... )

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