And it's one notch on my arm towards a broader tomorrow.

[reddragdiva]

• NotN: Ofcom TV ad report, extremism in schools, keeping out Johnny Foreigner. I just got $445 for September. Holy crap.

• arkady is now a comic character too. A warren_ellis comic character. (She only smokes in drawings, dahling.)

Lovely date last night with nyecamden. I fixed his wifi! (That's an example of "the truth and nothing but the truth, but not the whole unvarnished truth in all its technicolour glory.") I had a huge grin on my face all day at work. I appear to have a boyfriend. :-D This evening was his 33¹/₃ birthday drinks at the Pembury. aster13 looked so fabulous.

The air around Nye's place in King's Cross tastes amazingly clean. It's the air that made me move to London — I visited in November 2001 and stayed in a hostel in Russell Square, and after three hours I decided I was moving here.

Now I'm home playing with an extremely boisterous and active Freda as she has Arkady read to her The Very Hungry Caterpillar: Random Access Version — she turns to the pages she wants in the order she feels like. Linearity is so passé. After months of Arkady taunting me with the idea, I finally got squirted with her breast milk when Freda grabbed her nipple just now and pulled. Oh, she's just tried again and squirted herself in the face. Clever pickle!

I am profoundly broke, but still think the fifth anniversary Bisexual Underground on Tuesday is an excellent idea. I think pndc should go too.

And after months of threats, Arkady has finally squirted me from her boob! I feel like a real father now. (She's sitting next to me reading me write this, and I'm still alive.)

Comments

[reddragdiva]

Srsly. The air in that bit of London is not full of pollen. (The air in Walthamstow is.) The black snot mostly comes from going on the Tube.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Oh, I get it now. I forget that exists sometimes.
I was all about pollution.

The black snot mostly comes from going on the Tube.

Damn. Those tubes are nastier than I realised then. I still have gunk on my jacket from the Tube.

[arkady.livejournal.com]

The black stuff is brake dust. Back when I worked on the Underground, first thing I always did at the end of my shift was to thoroughly blow my nose to get rid of all the black gunk.

[greylock.livejournal.com]

Damn. I can't believe for years I have thought London's pollution was way, way worse than it is (or was, I assume the number of cars has reduced in London and that will have cleared the air somewhat).

[arkady.livejournal.com]

The congestion charge has cut down traffic a little, and increasingly the bus fleet is being converted over to hydrogen - so the pollution is much reduced overall.

Even the water isn't as bad - you can catch trout in the Thames these days. Not sure you'd want to eat it, mind - but at least the Thames isn't complete death to all aquatic life any more.