Yesterday was my 4th wedding anniversary with Richard and our 18th anniversary of being together. Richard bravely staggered out of bed where he was busy dying of the man-flu, and we put on fancy clothes and went out to the Secret Surprise I had booked. This being vegan afternoon tea at La Suite West hotel, which is near Bayswater/Queensway.

( Pictures! )

Today I am feeling depressed and panicky. The problem with sleeping in hotel rooms is the damned air conditioning. Firstly, it's impossible to control the temperature of the room the way we'd do it at home by throwing open a window, since the windows are sealed. The hotel room defaults to 22 deg C, which is too hot for comfortable sleeping - ( Read more... )

Re: part 2 of this, I have had a discussion with several different people which may achieve mutual satisfactory resolution. More about that later. However, I am still stressed out of my little brain ( Read more... )

So tired today. Have various things to talk about but very little energy with which to do it. This is a perpetual problem at the moment, though.

Richard was away in Paris doing paintball things over the weekend, so I had a visiting fluffymormegil and rowan_leigh. They were very useful for helping me, especially on Friday when Rowan took me shopping without any prior ( Read more... )

Back home now. Haven't exactly been keeping up either with livejournal or the real-world news. (American news is full of people I've never heard of and very little about the world outside the US).

Tuesday night dinner was at Blockheads, a typical American Tex-Mex, but one that knew what vegans are. I get Mexican food when I'm in Seattle at the ( Read more... )

Dear gods, I am going insane. Whose stupid idea was it to bring myself to New York even though I haven't finished my coursework, on the basis that I can do my work anywhere? ARGH!

( Moaning about my dear family, feel free to skip. )

Also, because I was feeling so wretched and lonely, we actually went out on New Year's Eve! This is a big thing if you consider that a) I don't celebrate new year at this time of year, b) the horrendous train journey we had 3 years ago.

I wanted to go out for dinner to my favourite vegan (indeed, *favourite*) restaurant, 222, for several reasons ( Read more... )

Saw Tim & Peter tonight for pizza & polar bear exchange. (We co-parent a small plushy polar bear called Knut, who came from Iceland yet is a replica of Knut from Berlin Zoo when he was a fluffy baaaaaby rather than a Godless Killing Machine. If this doesn't make sense to you, don't ask.) Pizza was beyond excellent as it always is in Italian ( Read more... )

So Richard got us takeaway from Pizza Express tonight and there were NINE dough balls in the box. Count 'em - NINE. And they were huge. All of them were bigger than dino's head, and three of them were bigger than Paploo's paws. And the dough was really fresh and fluffy. See what you're missing? Meanwhile, there you are, stuck in New York, where I'm ( Read more... )

barakta said something that I thought was rather interesting and has made me all Inspired. For a while I've been wondering what sort of workshop I'd like to run at BiCon, and trying to work out what's missing from the current list that I'd like to see. I haven't been able to think of any Good Ideas that either a) aren't already being provided by someone ( Read more... )