Just some rustling clothes.

[reddragdiva]

It's been a hectic time indeed. Thursday evening was particularly fun — after going to A&E with arkady (accident at work) and getting out of there at midnight, we were hassled on the bus by a rowdy drunk on drugs, who then (a) took a swing at me (pissweak) and (b) tried to steal Arkady's bag (she saw red). When the police showed up (originally called by the conductor), they were quite keen for us to make statements and be prepared to show up in court. They're going to do the dickhead for attempted robbery. I won't go into further detail until after court, but it was certainly two major evenings' worth of excitement. I got to bed at four and got up at seven.

Friday: redcountess and I had a Quiet Night In with pizza.

Saturday: Arkady and I went to the B-Movie Village Fete Of The Damned. I got pics, mostly of the bands (Swarf and Syaronosui, rosiaconite's J-pop band). You can also see liz_lowlife and godgirl being untoward with a plunger. flickgc's accent slowly went Mancunian as she talked about Rosi. cavalorn offered sage advice on monkeys. We left at midnight, before the evening had worn out its welcome.

Sunday: The purchase of a suit jacket. The hardest part was finding something blazerish but not obnoxious — anything with three buttons leaves me looking like a taller Alexei Sayle at worst and a Russian Mafia thug at best. They did have some very nice jackets I would have been most pleased to own, but they looked far too much like the stuff I was used to seeing in op-shops (that's Australian for charity shop) in Perth for ten dollars. Paying full retail just seems wrong. And might leave one reluctant to take it to a smoky pub and spill beer on it. It's just not rock'n'roll.

Monday: Day off work ill. I did get the dishes done at last.

Tuesday: I forgot my tie this morning. So I dashed out and bought the cheapest technically-tie object available. Polyester ties are the business equivalent of a hair shirt. I'll be leaving this one in the desk drawer as a warning to myself. Liz went out to look at a new flat — not amazing, but almost there! We need to give notice soon ...

Comments

[medakse.livejournal.com]

did I tell you that I had this really strange dream about you a week or so ago? We defeated the brain sucking zombies. That's about all I remember.
:)

[reddragdiva]

Hah! It's what they pay me for. Except they win.

[zotz]

Were the bands any good?

[reddragdiva]

Not too bad. Swarf are particularly bouncy live. Liz prances about like a goth Sound Of Music. Or maybe that was the decidedly non-g*th dress.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

Friend of mine had that on a bus in East London, gang of teenagers hassled her, punched her, took her bag... And were let of the bus politely by the conductor, a mate of theirs, who saw nothing when interviewed by apathetic Police in Bethnal Green.

Don't think they'd do so well now, what with her achieving 1st Dan in Ki-Aikido.

[hestia.livejournal.com]

It's just not rock'n'roll.
Exactly.

[rocketmelee.livejournal.com]

I try to never buy clothes that I can't spill beer on... but that's mostly because I'm a klutz...

[reddragdiva]

So they don't actually have CCTV on buses?

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

That was three-and-a-half years ago. But not all buses have CCTV nowadays, either, even at night. Not all of them have working CCTV, either. Crime and assaults on buses have gone down in London, but I'm not sure that CCTV played all that big a part. Any bus driver will tell you that radios and better police responses - hell, any police response - are a more important change from the 90's.