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Hello, hello!
My life has been a bit mental, in a really good way. Got to meet sarkywoman for the first time ever. We've known each other for 5 years, so it didn't even feel like a momentous occasion, just a good overdue natter with an old friend.
Weekend just gone was the book fair at the Gallery, where I was helping on events, which was super busy - Saturday was the worst with 4 back to back events, each with 15 minutes for turnaround - to tidy up the chairs, set up the next presentation (on macs - EVIL PRETTY MACS. They're like the Mean Girls of the technological world), greet the speakers (learning their names lol), ensure with the AV assistant that their mics are working and any extra special bits like doing introductions. And I hadn't eaten for most of the day (like 4 pieces of toast at 10am and nothing until 6pm when I had an apple). Sounds horrible, but! I did it, and I did it well and didn't snap at anybody and it was pretty extreme. It's just another way of asserting my awesomeness and my ability, surely to be helpful when I have to apply for new jobs in the new year.
Working a seven day week has left me pretty exhausted though and although Monday afternoon was really quiet I still had a maths test in the morning at college for my apprenticeship and my brain is fried. I'm taking Friday off because its a quiet day and I like long weekends, but god I'm just getting slower and slower! So early night tonight. Well, I say to myself a lot, but I go to do one little thing or check out something and suddenly its fracking 1am in the morning and I can't get out of bed.
The other awesome thing is that I'm going on a date on Friday, ohh yeah. It's another okcupid coup - lots of poly people hang out in okcupid for some reason. Anyway, she's really sweet, genderqueer, smart and works in a west end theatre as a techie. She came to my account, despite my awful okcupid name and we hit it off, so we're having tea on Friday.
There's also another prospect in my life called Ed who I met at polyday at the tantra workshop, who has this very warming, sensuous sexy quality to him, and he seems to like me! People finding me attractive will never stop feeling weird. We managed to have a chat on facebook where he said he's hoping to bring a teepee to OpenCon in the Dorset mansion retreat and create chilled party space/love nest :D
AND, there's this woman I met at Polyday called Melissa, and we're chatting happily. She's really nice, lovely long hair and awkward in a really sweet way. I don't know if anything will come of it but its nice to be chatting. I'm generally just very sociable at the moment, I think its my emotional cycle - I crash in October/November but around now I have this autumnal shine and energy and will to really make things even and meet people an do projects.
I do need sleep though. I want to do some more writing for Iniva - I've had a fantastic chat with the Margareta Kern (the artist) but just no time to properly engage with it. And then I don't even know if my interview techniques is any good anyway! I can't do that Guardian stylee, mixing narrative and quotes so beautifully, humph.
Anyhow, I'm away now, knackered. Will shower and continue to listen to Slashcast.....
Hello, hello!
My life has been a bit mental, in a really good way. Got to meet sarkywoman for the first time ever. We've known each other for 5 years, so it didn't even feel like a momentous occasion, just a good overdue natter with an old friend.
Weekend just gone was the book fair at the Gallery, where I was helping on events, which was super busy - Saturday was the worst with 4 back to back events, each with 15 minutes for turnaround - to tidy up the chairs, set up the next presentation (on macs - EVIL PRETTY MACS. They're like the Mean Girls of the technological world), greet the speakers (learning their names lol), ensure with the AV assistant that their mics are working and any extra special bits like doing introductions. And I hadn't eaten for most of the day (like 4 pieces of toast at 10am and nothing until 6pm when I had an apple). Sounds horrible, but! I did it, and I did it well and didn't snap at anybody and it was pretty extreme. It's just another way of asserting my awesomeness and my ability, surely to be helpful when I have to apply for new jobs in the new year.
Working a seven day week has left me pretty exhausted though and although Monday afternoon was really quiet I still had a maths test in the morning at college for my apprenticeship and my brain is fried. I'm taking Friday off because its a quiet day and I like long weekends, but god I'm just getting slower and slower! So early night tonight. Well, I say to myself a lot, but I go to do one little thing or check out something and suddenly its fracking 1am in the morning and I can't get out of bed.
The other awesome thing is that I'm going on a date on Friday, ohh yeah. It's another okcupid coup - lots of poly people hang out in okcupid for some reason. Anyway, she's really sweet, genderqueer, smart and works in a west end theatre as a techie. She came to my account, despite my awful okcupid name and we hit it off, so we're having tea on Friday.
There's also another prospect in my life called Ed who I met at polyday at the tantra workshop, who has this very warming, sensuous sexy quality to him, and he seems to like me! People finding me attractive will never stop feeling weird. We managed to have a chat on facebook where he said he's hoping to bring a teepee to OpenCon in the Dorset mansion retreat and create chilled party space/love nest :D
AND, there's this woman I met at Polyday called Melissa, and we're chatting happily. She's really nice, lovely long hair and awkward in a really sweet way. I don't know if anything will come of it but its nice to be chatting. I'm generally just very sociable at the moment, I think its my emotional cycle - I crash in October/November but around now I have this autumnal shine and energy and will to really make things even and meet people an do projects.
I do need sleep though. I want to do some more writing for Iniva - I've had a fantastic chat with the Margareta Kern (the artist) but just no time to properly engage with it. And then I don't even know if my interview techniques is any good anyway! I can't do that Guardian stylee, mixing narrative and quotes so beautifully, humph.
Anyhow, I'm away now, knackered. Will shower and continue to listen to Slashcast.....