I am cosied up in a very lovely hostel in Philadelphia right now, eating the baguette my mother sent me off with. THINGS I HAVE DONE RECENTLY INCLUDE:

• Discovered a new favourite band with a musical saw.
• Had my socks rocked off by Robert Plant & the Band of Joy (and fifteen or so other acts but as they were the final act they sort of got top ( Read more... )

Hey there, internet. Eventually I'll be good at LiveJournal again; it's like riding a bicycle, right? Only with rather less fear of imminent death. (If you think that's an exaggeration, you haven't met my bicycle.) I can do the posting thing!, it's the keeping abreast of stuff that's slippery.

Anyway, my weekend was gorgeous in every way possible, ( Read more... )

A meme from vega_ofthe_lyre, in which I have never, ever been so long-winded before (well, okay, that is probably a lie; I am frequently long-winded).

part i.
Respond to this and i'll pick seven of your lj interests for you to explain in a new post.

( cut for loquaciousness. )

I came home late Sunday night (or Monday morning, really -- it was four am, but I had slept so much in the car that I believed it to be only around midnight for at least fifteen minutes before I noticed a clock), and have just now finally caught up on the internet! Huzzah! Also, heavens you lot are loquacious. And no, I didn't refuse to post until ( Read more... )

in case me talking about it non-stop didn't take, it is time for my yearly music festival pilgrimage; we leave at five in the morning so of course I am up past one. (well, actually that's sort of my plan. I'll be so exhausted that I'll stumble into the car and sleep half the drive, hooray!) just burned my first cd and stuffed it into ridiculously ( Read more... )

I have medication. I am beyond relieved about this -- I can go to Merlefest and relax and not have ridiculous mild panic attacks and fits of lethargy and maybe over the next week I can teach my body to sleep normally again. Of course, said medication arrived late, was not at the pharmacy when the doctors told me it would be, and then I left my ( Read more... )

Hello there, blogosphere; I have not actually died. (Someone on NPR said 'blogosphere' the other day in a completely serious way, and I may have squeed just a bit.) It's just that my life, and by extension my brain, has got so terrifically dull -- lately it's begun to feel a great deal like The Horrible Calendar Kiosk Job, stretched over a larger ( Read more... )

Woke this morning feeling strangely alive -- well, no, not as soon as I woke; mostly I was sleepy (and cosy, as there was a fluffy little calico making brrrriiir! noises and curling up on my legs), and fuzzy-headed, but lying in bed listening to Morning Edition and the bedroom all full of breeze (oh lazy Saturday mornings, how I love you!), I felt ( Read more... )

Despite being barraged by sun and humidity, aching all over, somehow managing to catch a cold in eighty-degree weather, having to choose between four different bands in one time-slot, and finding my face has been sunburned dreadfully, I have had a marvellous weekend. Marvellous. To begin with, at least one festival a year tends to be my father's ( Read more... )

Aaaack, it's my least favourite part of any trip: the last few hours before we leave. (I say 'last few hours' because, um, it's nine thirty now, and Dad and I are getting up at five.) All the scrambling and madness and me being sure I'm forgetting something important and, as usual, only beginning to pack at the last minute (though that's usually ( Read more... )