Back to Bishy
It was weirdly gratifying going back to Norwich for the graduation and not feeling like it was my home city anymore. Didn't feel at all like I belonged there. Which was a good thing! I moved out at the end of May and I seem to have already disassociated myself, probably because the majority of my best friends live in Bishop anyway so it always felt more like home even when I didn't live there myself. And it's a nice feeling, knowing I'm going back to friends rather than housemates. I may be couch surfing but living there's made me happier than I can ever remember being before on a daily basis. *warm fuzzy moment*
Mum seems fine now, still has a scratchy throat but other than that seems to have made a complete U-Turn. So basically I think it was a combination of a random little virus, lack of sleep and NOT TAKING HER DAMN MEDS! They virtually kicked her out of hospital yesterday lunchtime because they decided someone else needed the bed more, but we had to wait a while for her prescription to be processed. While we were hanging about in the canteen one of her friends, Kathy, saw us and ran over. Turned out Kath's uncle was in for an Angina attack as well. Mum took the opportunity to ask when the hell she was going to move her old car out of the front garden (it's an abandoned white Ford that's been sat in Mum's front garden for so long that one particularly tenacious weed has actually worked it's way up underneath the car and into the interior). Found out it's finally going to be taken away for a real blaze of glory in some fenland demolition Derby this autumn. Kathy's going to let us know when it's happening and if I want to come down, offered to wangle me a free ticket off the guy who's collecting it. I don't think I'd come down just for that but, yay for the Ford going out on a high note!
Made use of the wifi one last time and entered the National Photographic Portrait Prize this morning. It's with a random photo of my face that I took aaaages ago for an avatar (that I actually used on here for a while now that I think about it). A lot of people who saw it said I should enter it - so I did. It just about makes it into the date bracket and better yet, I think it might be eligible for the 25's and under youth grant, because I think I was still 24 when I took it last year and I'm not going to be 26 until September. Figured it was worth a punt anyway.
Ok, must pack now, then I have less than a week to sort out my barely half-finished port-folio for Comicon. *whoops* The flight to San Francisco is the 14th and I can't bloody wait. Just wish I had more time to get the San Diego drawings done.