General update: mostly coaching and gothing :)
As ever, it's been a while. Main events of any significance (at least to me) are as follows:
Volunteering: Met with my 'coachees' for the year - three boys and a girl. I don't think it's going to be much like last year, where the girl I was working with was so reluctant to express an opinion on anything that the process was much like pulling teeth. Although we work with them separately, I met this year's batch in a group the first time. There was so much messing about, attention seeking and snarking at each other that it was almost like being a form tutor again...
Work: Much as ever, except I finally bought a printer. The last time I owned a home printer must be about ten years ago, and I'm pretty sure that back then you couldn't get one that would do doubled-sided colour printing for under fifty quid, never mind copying/scanning and wireless printing, too. :)
Fun stuff: On Friday, A and I made it to the current exhibition at the British Library, Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination. To quote what I already said on F***book, because I'm feeling lazy this morning: It was quite impressively comprehensive, running from The Castle of Otranto to photos from this April's Whitby Goth Weekend, via just about every key work of Gothic literature you can think of, historic and modern (the only notable exception we could think of was Interview With the Vampire; it's frankly shocking that bloody Tw*light made the cut but IWtV didn't) plus bits of TV and film and fashion.
Fashion victim-ness: Pre-exhibition, we swung by Camden because I wanted to check out the Black Rose closing down sale (well, they're closing the physical shop). They had nothing I wanted, and neither did Psylo, who were also having a sale. It appears the universe was saving all my shopping luck for yesterday. I now have a calf-length panelled 100% wool dress (black, of course...) with long sleeves, raw seams, an asymetric hem and a slightly odd drapey bit on one side of the front, from the 'designer/vintage' section of a charity shop in North Finchley...for a tenner, because they were having a half price sale. *Is happy*
Volunteering: Met with my 'coachees' for the year - three boys and a girl. I don't think it's going to be much like last year, where the girl I was working with was so reluctant to express an opinion on anything that the process was much like pulling teeth. Although we work with them separately, I met this year's batch in a group the first time. There was so much messing about, attention seeking and snarking at each other that it was almost like being a form tutor again...
Work: Much as ever, except I finally bought a printer. The last time I owned a home printer must be about ten years ago, and I'm pretty sure that back then you couldn't get one that would do doubled-sided colour printing for under fifty quid, never mind copying/scanning and wireless printing, too. :)
Fun stuff: On Friday, A and I made it to the current exhibition at the British Library, Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination. To quote what I already said on F***book, because I'm feeling lazy this morning: It was quite impressively comprehensive, running from The Castle of Otranto to photos from this April's Whitby Goth Weekend, via just about every key work of Gothic literature you can think of, historic and modern (the only notable exception we could think of was Interview With the Vampire; it's frankly shocking that bloody Tw*light made the cut but IWtV didn't) plus bits of TV and film and fashion.
Fashion victim-ness: Pre-exhibition, we swung by Camden because I wanted to check out the Black Rose closing down sale (well, they're closing the physical shop). They had nothing I wanted, and neither did Psylo, who were also having a sale. It appears the universe was saving all my shopping luck for yesterday. I now have a calf-length panelled 100% wool dress (black, of course...) with long sleeves, raw seams, an asymetric hem and a slightly odd drapey bit on one side of the front, from the 'designer/vintage' section of a charity shop in North Finchley...for a tenner, because they were having a half price sale. *Is happy*