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It was a crappy day, but for receiving the following e-mail.


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I've been working on stuff for BAA for three and a half years, since one Friday in January 2008 when Todd, a counsel whom I was sort of afraid of at the time but who has come to be a friend at work, brought me a pile of things to work on while Pigeon, an associate who joined after me and obtained her nickname for her attested culinary distaste of ( Read more... )

Let me dwell briefly on my perception of the passage of time. I think that the last ten years have seemed to pass quickly, even if intervals during that period seem to pass more slowly. Life can feel like a game of Civilization II, where, if I do not have a good start, development can proceed slowly, and before I realise it, 3000 years have passed ( Read more... )

And she washed the dirty sheets and ironed them.

Two boxes of chocolate?

Stay ever vigilant (and bedtime now)-- /B/

I left for work early and in a rush, and I didn't have time to put out sheets for Edna and strip my bed (the sign I want my sheets changed). I resigned myself to having dirty sheets for another week. Getting home at 2:30 this morning, I had a delightful surprise to find this note scribbled on half a sheet of A6 memo pad ( Read more... )

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For the past five weeks I took a Saturday course at City Lit on drawing. It was an introductory course and was taught by a Yorkshire woman called Jayne. She was in her mid-forties and had long black hair and wore patterned smocks and liked to call everyone "dah-ling". Courses at City Lit are relatively cheap (the course was like £182 pounds, which ( Read more... )

Highlights from the past week:

- first Russian IPO successfully launched;
- longest work day (36 hours!) and first time having worked 58 out of 60 consecutive hours;
- first new pair of Pumas in a year and a half;
- first time seeing Snorri and eating at Trader Vic's in about a year;
- I dreamt I bought this house;
- new art from Tiny Showcase- my ( Read more... )