| 5 good Friday thing |
[Jul. 18th, 2008|09:33 pm] |
1 - I got up at 6am by mistake. Rather than go back to bed for an hour, I went to London fields Lido and had swam a kilometer by 7.20am. Exercise first thing in the morning is so exciting. I think I could get used to it. I'm going to try and go early morning swimming once a week.
2 - A man in the changing room was friendly to me. We only chatted briefly but I am generally so surprised when a stranger is nice to me that it has kept me happy all day (the fact that he was cute and I got to see him stripped to his underpants helped too).
3 - I took delivery of my lovely new computer today. It's a year old iMac that I had stuffed full of memory and loaded with software. It was a freaking bargain as the guy I bought it from is the guy we buy our machines from at the office. Having a Mac at home gives me much more opportunity to do freelance in the evenings and means that I am now compatible with the designer I work with. It also is much more attractive than my old laptop. I am now prepared to become a full time Mac snob.
4 - I went to Miso noodle bar for lunch and had Won Ton soup. A very strange thing happened. I took a big spoonful of the soup and somehow it came out of my nose. Only the designer I work with saw and he was kind and didn't make a fuss. How weird though! I told him it was a problem from years of cocaine addiction (I have had cocaine a handful of times really). Years ago this would have really embarrassed the arse off me, but today I just don't care! I'm going to make nasal pouring my party piece (Kay, still having the talent party??)
5 - Did I mention 'Skank'? She is the Jamaican woman that lives down the corridor from me. She lives with two men (who are drug dealers and truly dodgy). For some reason she likes me, and we often chat in the hallway. The two men ignore me. Because they ignore me I have spent the last three years saying 'Hello!', 'Hiya!', and 'Morning!' to them and they never even acknowledge me. Today they both went past me and vaguely smiled and they said 'Alight mate'. I see this as a victory of politeness over rudeness. Persistent good manners will always win. Hurrah! I wonder if skank told them that I was a nice boy or something....
Oh, I thought of another.....
6 - I am seeing my most lovely friend A tomorrow. She was an Art director I used to work with, and I simply adore her. |
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A few years ago, we worked with a designer who was born in China. She's kinda famous, I think... her name is Anita Yavitch, and she's brilliant AND a blast (and six feet tall!)!
Anyway, when anyone blows their nose around her, she says they're making won tons!
hahaha! I'm not sure I'll ever order Won Tons again!
...but soup is just the thing, when you have a cold, and are making won tons, already!
How lovely to go swimming first thing in the morning. At a lido !
Nasal pouring would be perfect for the talent party.
I like your victory of politeness over rudeness. | |
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