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I have passed through "being frustrated" re the internet shenanigans (tl;dr THIS FUCKING INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDER ISN'T PROVIDING A SERVICE) and am now into acceptance, where I just deal with the fact that I will never, ever, ever catch up with my online admin or editing and that I am going to use my entire data allowance in ten seconds and Virgin Media can absolutely 100% choke on my tiny little dick.
I have continued to have the plague, and I have continued to refuse to actually recooperate because I'm too delirious to feel tired consistently (just having "OH GOD I'm GOING TO FAINT no wait I'm fine" moments and eating the ENTIRE EARTH).
(We tried to escape the No Internet on Friday and I had a disappointing dinner: https://www.instagram.com/p/BRwDGokBC3b/?taken-by=derekdesanges)
Saturday
Too ill/tired for gym, went to Holland Park/the Kyoto Garden for a walk & to abuse the cafe internet & to force myself to work on my outline for Tourist's Guide:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx12QmBV9s/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx2BXMhvSN/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx2I9CB0wS/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx2SKMBXjd/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx2bXABLbE/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx2vqgB7ps/?taken-by=derekdesanges (video)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx5itMhavq/?taken-by=derekdesanges <-- I shaved. I look twelve. When am I going to stop looking twelve every time I shave?
Then I went to Muji and WRESTLED a 5-shelf bookshelf home, assembled in 30 minutes (15 of which were faffing), shelved and organised books, and FINALLY HAVE SOME EMPTY SHELVES this is not a request to have them filled, they will fill up fast enough.
Got changed, discovered that the outfit you plan is LITERALLY NEVER the outfit you wear:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRykq3VhxI5/?taken-by=derekdesanges
And with Fred and Maud and two Polish couch-surfers they were hosting for the weekend, blagged ourselves into the Caravan Club, a NATIONAL TRUST fucking recreation of a 1930s underground queer club, perfect in every detail:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRy_PxnBfb-/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRy_xdbBht3/?taken-by=derekdesanges (video)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRy__kcBQcz/?taken-by=derekdesanges my ugly-ass face
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRzAEcihlXC/?taken-by=derekdesanges this man behind me later seranaded me:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154129733351707&set=a.10151958016146707.1073741830.515906706&type=3
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRzAKnuBukf/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRzAR26h941/?taken-by=derekdesanges the woman on the left here, who danced in her spangly flapper underwear, was the same woman who taught me and ruthi to charleston. she's lovely & i'm going to sign up to more of her classes now.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRzAxyBBEia/?taken-by=derekdesanges (video)
Other people met: a couple who run an actual glitter-themed nightclub featuring unicorns and a glitter station; a man who earnestly told me "I'm a born-and-bred Londoner myself but what I love about this city is you could have been here a week and if you say it's your home you're a Londoner, no questions asked"; a person of no nominated gender who comes from Bournemouth and did a Salomé Dance of the Seven Veils (in the video) https://www.instagram.com/p/BR1E0Xyh1zQ/?taken-by=derekdesanges also; and a Macedonian PhD candidate whose thesis is on female dandies of the 20s and 30s. Furthermore, 3/4 of my drinks didn't get charged to my tab and it was too warm. Oh, and I accidentally volunteered myself (literally didn't listen and just yelled ME when asked for volunteers) to interpretative dance the role of Rico in Tricity Vogue's ukulele cover of the Cocobana.
Then we took the Polish girls to Wetherspoons because why the fuck not.
Sunday
Jess & I met up with Fiona at the Barbican Centre for a sojourn on the rooftop:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0fYnLBQmf/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0pc41hDd1/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0phSIhnZu/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0plqyBAZr/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0ppLNhghl/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0p0tThqv8/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0p4xohCRb/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0p7_Yh5i_/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0qJKSh-UD/?taken-by=derekdesanges (OUR ALBUM GENRE IS "ARID HOUSE" GUYS)
Then went to Crossrail place for more roof gardens (no time to get to Kensington Roof Gardens)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR00Vw0BLs4/?taken-by=derekdesanges
On to find St Dunstan-in-the-East, which I've been meaning to do for ages:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR1A_n2h15b/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR1BOo7h9vH/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR1BqAzB5Mt/?taken-by=derekdesanges (video)
Then home via dinner and this charming view of Bow Church:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR1HXk7hQUy/?taken-by=derekdesanges
Monday
Today I went to the gym and was cross a lot. I have drawn many things, and I had a brainwave about how to fix the aliens-and-gangland-murders-in-prohibition-NY book (make protagonist trans, which is now my solution to everything). I have progress snapshops and finished pics to upload. One day.
also i published a book
I have continued to have the plague, and I have continued to refuse to actually recooperate because I'm too delirious to feel tired consistently (just having "OH GOD I'm GOING TO FAINT no wait I'm fine" moments and eating the ENTIRE EARTH).
(We tried to escape the No Internet on Friday and I had a disappointing dinner: https://www.instagram.com/p/BRwDGokBC3b/?taken-by=derekdesanges)
Saturday
Too ill/tired for gym, went to Holland Park/the Kyoto Garden for a walk & to abuse the cafe internet & to force myself to work on my outline for Tourist's Guide:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx12QmBV9s/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx2BXMhvSN/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx2I9CB0wS/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx2SKMBXjd/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx2bXABLbE/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx2vqgB7ps/?taken-by=derekdesanges (video)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRx5itMhavq/?taken-by=derekdesanges <-- I shaved. I look twelve. When am I going to stop looking twelve every time I shave?
Then I went to Muji and WRESTLED a 5-shelf bookshelf home, assembled in 30 minutes (15 of which were faffing), shelved and organised books, and FINALLY HAVE SOME EMPTY SHELVES this is not a request to have them filled, they will fill up fast enough.
Got changed, discovered that the outfit you plan is LITERALLY NEVER the outfit you wear:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRykq3VhxI5/?taken-by=derekdesanges
And with Fred and Maud and two Polish couch-surfers they were hosting for the weekend, blagged ourselves into the Caravan Club, a NATIONAL TRUST fucking recreation of a 1930s underground queer club, perfect in every detail:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRy_PxnBfb-/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRy_xdbBht3/?taken-by=derekdesanges (video)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRy__kcBQcz/?taken-by=derekdesanges my ugly-ass face
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRzAEcihlXC/?taken-by=derekdesanges this man behind me later seranaded me:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10154129733351707&set=a.10151958016146707.1073741830.515906706&type=3
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRzAKnuBukf/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRzAR26h941/?taken-by=derekdesanges the woman on the left here, who danced in her spangly flapper underwear, was the same woman who taught me and ruthi to charleston. she's lovely & i'm going to sign up to more of her classes now.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BRzAxyBBEia/?taken-by=derekdesanges (video)
Other people met: a couple who run an actual glitter-themed nightclub featuring unicorns and a glitter station; a man who earnestly told me "I'm a born-and-bred Londoner myself but what I love about this city is you could have been here a week and if you say it's your home you're a Londoner, no questions asked"; a person of no nominated gender who comes from Bournemouth and did a Salomé Dance of the Seven Veils (in the video) https://www.instagram.com/p/BR1E0Xyh1zQ/?taken-by=derekdesanges also; and a Macedonian PhD candidate whose thesis is on female dandies of the 20s and 30s. Furthermore, 3/4 of my drinks didn't get charged to my tab and it was too warm. Oh, and I accidentally volunteered myself (literally didn't listen and just yelled ME when asked for volunteers) to interpretative dance the role of Rico in Tricity Vogue's ukulele cover of the Cocobana.
Then we took the Polish girls to Wetherspoons because why the fuck not.
Sunday
Jess & I met up with Fiona at the Barbican Centre for a sojourn on the rooftop:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0fYnLBQmf/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0pc41hDd1/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0phSIhnZu/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0plqyBAZr/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0ppLNhghl/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0p0tThqv8/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0p4xohCRb/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0p7_Yh5i_/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR0qJKSh-UD/?taken-by=derekdesanges (OUR ALBUM GENRE IS "ARID HOUSE" GUYS)
Then went to Crossrail place for more roof gardens (no time to get to Kensington Roof Gardens)
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR00Vw0BLs4/?taken-by=derekdesanges
On to find St Dunstan-in-the-East, which I've been meaning to do for ages:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR1A_n2h15b/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR1BOo7h9vH/?taken-by=derekdesanges
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR1BqAzB5Mt/?taken-by=derekdesanges (video)
Then home via dinner and this charming view of Bow Church:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BR1HXk7hQUy/?taken-by=derekdesanges
Monday
Today I went to the gym and was cross a lot. I have drawn many things, and I had a brainwave about how to fix the aliens-and-gangland-murders-in-prohibition-NY book (make protagonist trans, which is now my solution to everything). I have progress snapshops and finished pics to upload. One day.
also i published a book