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ali_anarres
and I made it for about ten, 'cos I suck. Must work harder at skiving off
before six on B-Movie weeks. By ten it closely resembled the inside of a
tin of particularly goth sardines. I had a WONDERFUL time talking to
everyone, dancing to dodgy '80s (the only time we came close to lynching
the DJ was when Heaven 17 "Temptation" stopped and restarted ... twice in
a row) and stealing everyone's soul with the shiny new battery-gobbler. One
day I will work out how to get the shots off the camera. damerell and ickle_yuki stayed over; one of them must
be a good luck charm, because we actually got a sodding taxi in less than
geological time.
Spent the rest of the weekend with ickle_yuki. To Camden on
Saturday to look at a poxy flat in a depressing block. It looked like a
particularly scummy council flat, except that everything in the carpark was
recent and expensive. Welcome to Camden. Where the real-estate agents wear
combat trousers and Boy jackets. Two more flats to look at on Wednesday,
one in Tufnell Park and one in Arsenal (near tube++; near football
ground--).
After doing B-Movie in the Underground Shoes boots I bought on my UK holiday in late 2001, I decided that I'd had e-fucking-nough. It was high time to get something more comfortable, if painfully clichéd and semidisposable. Toured the twenty-seven or so shops in Camden High Street selling an almost-identical selection of New Rocks and grabbed a size 46 pair of Style 654 ankle boots, £85. I probably need size 48 to get past the instep of the higher boots, but securing those would resemble effort. In any case, I have what I need. I'M GOING TO BECOME A GOTH NOW! GET ME MY SP00KY MAKEUP! PH3AR MY NEW ROCK KEYRING!
(Has anyone found an ecologically sound use for surplus New Rock keyrings?)
Sunday was a quiet, cold shopping day. A small amount of shopping around Tottenham Court Road, a small amount of shopping in Camden, cripple myself breaking in the New Rocks, a drink at the Dev. Home to collapse.
This morning I woke up feeling like I'd died. Called in sick, only had to
field one "where is my arse located again?" call from the boss; it
looks like he can in fact learn if you beat information into him with a big
enough hammer. Finally signed up with a GP and got to see the nurse
straight away, who confirmed that the throat thing was not an infection (do
something) but a virus (do nothing), and who also wrote me a script for
Ventolin. Nurses can write scripts here? I'm impressed. The nurse and
secretary were both very sweet, nice and helpful, and the surgery is five
hundred metres from my house; I think I've struck it lucky. Of course,
I'll be moving away as soon as ladylilith returns, if not
before. Ah well.
Now playing my 'Dodgy Goth' folder. What makes bands do dodgy covers of "New Dawn Fades"? John Frusciante, Primal Scream, Moby ...
I really need to get around to the hardware work on this box. Half a gig of
memory, second IDE cable (so the FAT32 MP3 drive is on the secondary
chain), better video card (and then minusbat can have the old one
back to use under NeXTStep). Particularly the memory. But I can't reboot
now, I've so much LiveJournal to catch up on!
What the hell does one do with the superfluous eight-megabyte CompactFlash card that came with one's camera?
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Date: 2003-01-13 04:33 pm (UTC)Sodding germ-laden goths.
CF card
Date: 2003-01-13 04:56 pm (UTC)Hmm. Load it up with some nice shots of London and trade it for one containing crappy pics of Vienna?
Y'know, sharing pics like, eh, the "old" way, per real, umm, _snail_ mail ;-?
(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-13 05:01 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-13 05:02 pm (UTC)You might wonder that, but of course I couldn't possibly comment.
Nah, I just spent the weekend running around in cold weather like a headless chook and sleeping irregularly. I would just put it down to overdoing it.
"Sodding germ-laden goths."
Skanky ho's, the lot of 'em!
Re: CF card
Date: 2003-01-13 05:16 pm (UTC)(since you can get lj and email via the palm anyway, the only reason to lug the laptop is because there is no such thing as enough cf memory when on holiday!)
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Date: 2003-01-13 05:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-13 05:18 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-13 05:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-13 05:22 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-13 05:34 pm (UTC)Mail them to sexy americans who desperately need keyrings!
`Una has been hunting desperately for a keyring for a MONTH. You'd think with all the touristy stuff around here I could find SOMETHING good. HA!
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Date: 2003-01-13 05:37 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-13 05:51 pm (UTC)Thank you :)
(The world may never again see anyone get this excited over a keyring.)
(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-13 07:41 pm (UTC)Didn't know about the primal screen cover
Re: CF card
Date: 2003-01-13 10:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-14 12:14 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-14 01:12 am (UTC)Yes, nurses can prescribe certain meds in this country, although they will refer you to a doctor if they are not sure what is going on.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-14 03:22 am (UTC)Michael used to live on Campdale Road; when I moved to London, we took a flat in Holloway that's just 15 minutes round the corner from Campdale Road (Cardwell Terrace to be precise, next to a really cool record shop). I'm still registered with Dr Brown at the surgery just over the road from the tube station.
(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-14 05:22 am (UTC)Re: CF card
Date: 2003-01-14 07:51 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-14 07:54 am (UTC)And I was complaining about the cold at least as vociferously!
Re: CF card
Date: 2003-01-14 07:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-14 07:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-14 08:05 am (UTC)And my memory is crap, i remember you only complaining about your feet all weekend!
(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-14 10:19 am (UTC)What could you do with a New Rock keyring...use it as the weight on the end of a plumb line to get wallpaper to hang straight?
(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-18 04:22 am (UTC)Ahem, Cough Cough
Date: 2003-01-20 03:07 pm (UTC):D
Servus,
Mr Eleganza
Re: Ahem, Cough Cough
Date: 2003-01-20 03:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2003-01-23 04:04 am (UTC)(Also available in type 2 and other variants.)
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Date: 2003-01-23 11:53 am (UTC)