It's been a fantastic weekend, featuring the most fun gig ever (with Nat and her Burmese python), then waking up after fewer than five hours of sleep feeling great and proceeding cleaning my room with the windows wide open so I can admire the beautiful view. After I settle down to do some work I'll be making lobio and pkhali for a decadent Georgian ( Read more... )

Just booked two sets of tickets to Edinburgh, got a free Barbour jacket, Ferragamo toiletry bag, Ferragamo lotion and perfume, Burberry fleece, and Caldene riding jacket, and am now packing for a bellydance/fire earting/snake charming show with N up in Lancashire. The weekend is off to a good start!

My room is now spectacularly tidy, thanks to lots of coffee and the company of my friend KH. I organised all my books and quite a lot of my old War Studies papers. I have some pretty goddam weird book categories ("torture"; "dead languages") and some continued categorical problems, like whether to separate military and nonmilitary history and also ( Read more... )

On the one hand, this is one of the worst days of my adult life--it's better than the day my father had heart surgery but worse than most all other days, perhaps tying with a particular academic disaster and the day A decided not to be my friend. On the other hand, as worst days of one's life go, I could do so, so, SO much worse. For example, as my ( Read more... )

My weekend has been splendid. I've bellydanced at four events, taught a dance class, researched the history of betting, conjugated Arabic verbs, saw my friend JP all-too-briefly, watched "Of Gods and Men", cooked various items for Historian, and had the rather surreal experience of buying condoms at 1:30am in Brixton while wearing an abaya and a ( Read more... )

My week is rocking, as the kids say. Details below ( Read more... )

I had an enquiry for a show at Ettington Park Hotel and sadly the person didn't book. I would have liked to have gone there ( Read more... )

Friday: The much-hyped drag and glasswalking show, followed by clubbing and a 4am collapse in P's Mistress Flat. The Mistress Flat is in a Victorian mansion in London and I occasionally borrow it when it is not being rented out. It is the sort of place where one might keep a mistress in style although it mainly houses friends of P's or rich ( Read more... )