Busy few days.  On Friday morning, I went for coffee at the atmospheric Scooter Caffe, with its old Vespa in the window.  Dark and secluded downstairs, the air exudes "quirky"; maybe a little bit too ostentatiously, but I like it...  Corpses of old coffee-machines (old style Elektras, etc) were mounted above the bar for posterity.  Work after ( Read more... )

I am back from Budapest now, doing strategic househunting business from my current nerve centre with Crackity.   For whatever reason, I had neither the impetus nor the creativity to write for this journal while I was in Budapest.  If I had to guess, I'd say that it was simply that all my processing power was going towards working out what I'm going ( Read more... )

I threw my head back and gulped down the night sky ( Read more... )

The next month is planned out.  There will be a lot of time spent in aeroplanes.  There will be a lot of walking around unknown streets.  I assume there will be quite a lot of cursing at maps.

This is my megatrip.  The itinerary is as follows:

31st March - 7th April: spend 19 hours on trains to visit excellent friend, & meet up with egadfly  & I.  Repose in ( Read more... )

So. We've been through work.

Relationships:

The time has come for me to assess what I want out of relationships of a romantic nature. It's so easy to fall into the trap of subscribing to the general consensus that one looks for One Person. I have taken two large strides in my understanding of the nature of relationships.

The first transition was to ( Read more... )

Big questions. Big questions. What am I doing here? What do I want? Where am I going? What's important ( Read more... )

I was at my dad's flat last night, taking the tiny, cramped lift up to the third floor ( Read more... )

Professor Nutt, former head of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, was sacked last month for highlighting the wrongheadedness of the government's approach to drugs - in its distribution of information and in its legislation. He suggested that erring on the side of caution (as with the reversal of the cannabis reclassification) can confuse ( Read more... )

Like Ares come the housemates
Taller than all tall men!

It’s one of those moments. You’re just about to step off the edge of the grassy cliff-edge and inhale - almost involuntarily - as deep as you can. You know it’ll be terrifying, and you know it’ll feel like you can’t breathe, your lungs are too full, and the wind will be whistling past your ( Read more... )

I want to learn how to stretch time.  Or maybe split my experience of the universe into two or three individual threads and then collapse them. Because, really, I don't have enough time.

I don't like not having enough time.  I don't like complaining about not having enough time, either; I'd much prefer to be able to just put my head down and get on ( Read more... )