Back home after the w/e
What a mixture of things.
I missed the Memorial service for the Trans Day of Remembrance on Friday by an hour. It was listed as being on between 1-4pm and I got there (after getting lost) just after 2pm and discovered that the service had been 40 minutes long and started promptly at 1pm. :(
Not so with Still Fierce. Got there early for rehearsal and performed my presentation without any hitches. The event was quite good (seven performances all up) and I had the odd feeling I've read poetry there before (during the 2005 Queer Collaborations)! Had a lot of good comments about my Trans Tarot Cards which were on display (as were some of my TDOR related comics). Also met Norrie there and I will be uploading a performance by her that I videoed back at the Same Sex Marriage Demonstration a few months back.
The trip home on Sunday was long and tedious. I was going to pick up my art but I had to go to a bookshop in Newtown. I wanted to, but I missed a connection to get back to Barnsley by the last bus,and had I detoured to do so, it would have meant walking home with luggage for 12 km instead of "only" 6km when I got to the other end. In the result, I did walk 6km from Glendale carrying a suitcase. I was totally overheated and STUFFED when I got home.
Found some dog poo when I got back, but nothing as bad as when I'd got back from QC earlier this year. Nice to be home and sleep in my own bed.
I missed the Memorial service for the Trans Day of Remembrance on Friday by an hour. It was listed as being on between 1-4pm and I got there (after getting lost) just after 2pm and discovered that the service had been 40 minutes long and started promptly at 1pm. :(
Not so with Still Fierce. Got there early for rehearsal and performed my presentation without any hitches. The event was quite good (seven performances all up) and I had the odd feeling I've read poetry there before (during the 2005 Queer Collaborations)! Had a lot of good comments about my Trans Tarot Cards which were on display (as were some of my TDOR related comics). Also met Norrie there and I will be uploading a performance by her that I videoed back at the Same Sex Marriage Demonstration a few months back.
The trip home on Sunday was long and tedious. I was going to pick up my art but I had to go to a bookshop in Newtown. I wanted to, but I missed a connection to get back to Barnsley by the last bus,and had I detoured to do so, it would have meant walking home with luggage for 12 km instead of "only" 6km when I got to the other end. In the result, I did walk 6km from Glendale carrying a suitcase. I was totally overheated and STUFFED when I got home.
Found some dog poo when I got back, but nothing as bad as when I'd got back from QC earlier this year. Nice to be home and sleep in my own bed.