Change of Pace
Well...
Since this post I have left Feltham forever. It's a strange thing to say - many of my belongings still reside there, including my favourite duvet cover, my old tapes that I spent part of my teenagerhood copying songs from the radio. In fact, my brother Elliott says when he last dropped in it still looked my room, just messier than usual. And I may go there from time to time - I plan to pillage my Dad's plots of land for free veg and make some chicken noodle soup for myself this summer. And its so much easier to get on with my father now that I hardly see him. He becomes my Dad again and not the overbearing self esteem sapping bullying of before.
I'm in Bow, in the vicinity of the Bow Bells. I like to think this will make me an honourary cockney if I stay here long enough, but Polyboyf Tom doesn't agree :p. It's the most central I've ever lived, or possibly any of my family ever lived, based in the suburbs of North west london. But its cool. I've discovered the Roxy cinema on Borough high street. Me and Tom grabbed a squashy sofa and got to watch Mic Macs, Jeunet's latest film about mischief against Arms companies (Jeunet directed Amelie). I'm sooo going there again, cheap indie interesting awesome lovely cinemas are rarer than Pinto walking posts! Afterwards, me and Tom went walking around the area and found a space near the Clink - a prison built in the 1100s, with a Gourmet Burger on top of it now. And went to a clearing where the trees were draped in golden fairy lights with all of London around us and it was like Tom and I owned the city. We kissed and laughed and danced and bantered, nerding out over Doctor Who and London locations and I was never ever more in love than I was then (at least, out of bed...)
I'm in an ex/council estate on the fourth floor, where kids are playing all the time and I can see the Gherkin and city buildings from my small double room. It's painted in swedish colours and finally covered in posters. The TV aerials not working but I'm finally able to watch my DVDs as I've got my Dad's old DVD/TV thingy. I've got a burgeoning obsession with Alison Janney and Richard Schiff from the West Wing and I fully embrace it!
Work is good, but I've got the Dreamer's Disease (what song is that from?!) where I start thinking about What The Hell Am I Doing With My Life and that I should be a writer and have more freedom cos sometimes I just have nothing to do and I need more friends. Because the reason I left Manchester was because I needed people to see and there werent any available. And in London I'm always wondering if I can afford it, as I'm earning £433 a month. It's a joke (I'm an apprentice on as low pay the Government will deign to give me).
So, with the independence and the slight loneliness and poverty I deviate from joy to tears on a semi regular basis. As my good friend Annabel banged on the head I'm "Much less unhappy". Because I need to see more friends, manage my money and organise Doctors and pills (I've stopped taking pills since April - ever circling angst, bleurgh).
Anyway, I'll leave this post here as it's gettng epic, and will be starting on the 30 Days of Who (stolen from persiflage_1 and 30 Days of Me stolen from radiantbaby . I do hope to complete this properly and genuinely get back to writing. Watch this space :)
30 Days of Who Meme
Day 01 - Your Favorite Quote
Day 02 - Your Favorite Classic Series Episode
Day 03 - Your Favorite New Series Episode
Day 04 - Your Favorite Doctor
Day 05 - Your Favorite Companion
Day 06 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 07 - Your Favorite Piece of Music
Day 08 - A Who-Related Photo That Makes You Happy
Day 09 - A Who-Related Photo That Makes You Angry/Sad
Day 10 - A Who-Related Photo That You Took
Day 11 - Your Favorite Season (Classic or New)
Day 12 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 13 - Your Favorite Villain
Day 14 - The Villain Who Scared You the Most
Day 15 - Favorite Who-Related Tumblr
Day 16 - Your Favorite Who-Related FanFic
Day 17 - A Piece of Who-Related FanArt
Day 18 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 20 - The Character Who Is Most Like You
Day 21 - Your Doctor Who OTP
Day 22 - A Who-Related Fan-Site
Day 23 - A Who-Related YouTube Video
Day 24 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 25 - Favorite Who Actor
Day 26 - Favorite Who Actress
Day 27 - An Episode You Wish Hadn’t Been Made
Day 28 - An Episode Idea You Created Yourself
Day 29 - Who You Think Should Be the Next Doctor
Day 30 - Whatever Tickles Your Fancy.
30 Days of Me Meme
Day 01 - Your favorite song
Day 02 - Your favorite movie
Day 03 - Your favorite television program
Day 04 - Your favorite book
Day 05 - Your favorite quote
Day 06 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 07 - A photo that makes you happy
Day 08 - A photo that makes you angry/sad
Day 09 - A photo you took
Day 10 - A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Day 11 - A photo of you taken recently
Day 12 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 13 - A fictional book
Day 14 - A non-fictional book
Day 15 - A fanfic
Day 16 - A song that makes you cry (or nearly)
Day 17 - An art piece (painting, drawing, sculpture, etc.)
Day 18 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 19 - A talent of yours
Day 20 - A hobby of yours
Day 21 - A recipe
Day 22 - A website
Day 23 - A YouTube video
Day 24 - Whatever tickles your fancy
Day 25 - Your day, in great detail
Day 26 - Your week, in great detail
Day 27 - This month, in great detail
Day 28 - This year, in great detail
Day 29 - Hopes, dreams and plans for the next 365 days
Day 30 - Whatever tickles your fancy