flatmates

there's ed, gillian, veg, and now....
muffy - the local squirrel who loves our food.
she's good at sneaking in even when we're here, nibbling through bannanas and corn
or entire meals when we're away at work.

aquarium launching party

should i go as a hammer head (where's the balloon hammer from the party last week?)
or as a water filter in black with bubbles.

bbc be wrong

so it started raining at 6, not at 10, like the bbc said.
and i was at a UCL night, and kept the post-grads going
till marylebone y los providores
and split a cab home.
work is busy and exhausting and good and fun. but sheesh i need 5 hours.

work cultures.....(from internal memo)

party at 60a

party at 60a
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september thursdays

tagged along to a company workshop this afternoon - somewhere up on the east coast of england near towns named - yoxford (y'ox's ford), kessington (kessing's ton (farm)), great yarmouth (mouth of the river yare).... and probably closer to holland than london.

at 4, 30 when we stumbled out of some regional office, my director and i ended up on the seashore, staring at gulls, surfboards, grass dunes and a gorgeous september evening. there was no heading back straight to london then, and we dragged it out into a nice drive and a pint, laughing in the wind.

so i'm left staying up, finishing tomorrow's powerpoint, and waiting for my brother to bus in from stansted on the last flight.

head first, and it's shallow

after sleeping upwards of 10 hours, tuesday was head-bearable, but lacking in much focus. ran through the endless emails, chatted, organised my calendar for the next month, and took a deep breath.

i'm going to be busy. and i haven't even scheduled time for watching movies on saturday afternoons, much less business development research or reading textbooks.

school's pretty much tuesday from 9-3pm, with some weekend events. but that's lecture, and i know there'll be library and reading time that will need to fit in alongside my normal full time job, networking events, friends visiting, scaling up work responsibilities, vegging over a good book, laying around in hyde park....

practice the preach

London’s City Hall has:
- photovoltaic solar panels, specially designed to compliment the rounded shape of the Foster and Partners designed building. they provide 70kW of renewable
- naturally ventilation, with windows in all office spaces that can be opened
- heat generated by from computers and lights is recycled
- a ground water bore hole system to cool air in the building

where's the paracetamol?

jet lag.... but happy to be home again.
straight to the office, team dim sum for lunch, and a stroll through covent garden.
it was a relaxed holiday, but now my brain is refusing to cognate.

saturday

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friday night

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brigid's opening line, as the margaritas arrive, "i am such a lush".
a long warm night, walking between bars, tequilas, champange and old memories

painted rock, top 2

painted rock, top 2
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top o relay peak 2

top o relay peak 2
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+ freckles

dinner

2 1.6lb sirloin steaks, tenderized with freshly ground pepper, grilled
3 large potatoes, wedged, brushed with oil and baked with fresh rosemary
2 tomatoes, grilled whole
3 large bell peppers, grilled whole, then sliced
2 zuchinni, sliced longways and steamed on the grill with garlic salt
1 salad, with homemade mustard dressing
3 mojitos with fresh mint, 1 gin and tonic, 1 fat tire ale
+grandmother, cousins, sister.

northern california

pine trees and old mining towns
smoky mornings (forest fires near sacramento) and
long red dusks over the lower sierras.

my cousins are grilling up the (giant) steaks,
i'm teaching the difference between appleton anejo and bacardi.

i started relaxing thursday, striper fishing on the lake
watching sunset in the west and red moon-rise in the east above the cliffs.
despite the sunburn, bee stings, and melting all my makeup in a hot car.
texas yesterday, mountains today.

how to find me

if you work with me - i'm on holiday.
if you need to talk, really - just call
if you regularly eat or drink with me - email
everyone else - i'm in the land of fat people and beloved family

6 : flight to DFW
7,8 : on a jet ski on lake texoma
9 -11 : entertaining my sister and cousins and grandmother at my uncles house, northern cali
12-14 : backpacking alone in tahoe wilderness
15 -17: DFW, family time
18: land at GTW, take train to waterloo, go to work.

it's tuesday

but there's no dinner party rocking the flat.
gillian cooked, and we watched most of season of scrubs.
27 minutes each, without the commercials.

so many things are failing to register.
how the americaninisms on tv are my fate for the next two weeks,
how this report I turned in today probably sets my standard for the next year,
that i'm on a transatlantic flight tomorrow instead of going to work....

i've been on autopilot for so long that the change is scaring me, and I've forgotten how to relax and roll with the punches.

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