It's become increasingly clear that I won't get my meme answers done before the end of December. Never mind; they'll keep my brain ticking over in January. Y'all asked me lots of interesting stuff which I still fully intend to answer - just, perhaps not now ( Read more... )

Notes on a week in Delhi and Mumbai ( Read more... )

I married Shim on the equinox, in Scotland, on a day halfway to autumn. If you don't want to read the rest: my dress was red; our friends cried; afterwards we spent two days in Prague, wrote our names on a padlock and threw the keys into the Vlatava. And nothing and everything has changed. These are notes for my own memory, as much as anything, and ( Read more... )

( lots of anxiety )

One of the remaining wedding tasks is figuring out the music. Am currently resisting the urge to replace Mendelssohn with "I knew you were trouble when you walked in".

(Getting married in five weeks! Permanently unemployed in three!)

(Look, some people juggle geese.)

Um.

Stories:

For
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I took a couple of days off at the end of last week and went to Oxford to see the lovely troyswann, whom I have known for years and years and years and is visiting our fair shores, and also
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Not sure I ought to have to say this, but here it is anyway: I am allowed to make fun of Indian weddings. You - white, don't-they-last-four-days-and-they're-all-colourful-tee-hee, thoughtless you - are not. Getting married in a grey church in England is not a "normal" way to get married. Thanks, glad we've cleared that up ( Read more... )

This week, I have:

-had a quick but joyful lunch with
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Thank you all again for the congratulations you left on my last post(s). I say this so often, but I never stop being surprised at the warmth and kindness of you all ( Read more... )

Before I talk about the amazing books I'm reading and the fact my Gaslight Anthem tickets came in the post today and about how my supervisor is delightful ("What do you mean, I'm not scary? I've decided I'm going to be scary from now on! Expect an uncomfortable August!") or about how I start a new job in six weeks or any and all of that ( Read more... )