had a really big week. helped with a docs day at work, had notepads made. everybody involved did a great job and we had lots of fun.
had a couple of lovely days and evenings with the little birdie.
made doogh and sparkly pink with my drinkmate omnifizz.
running around robbing banks all whacked out on scooby snacks.
more later. wish me luck.
a lot happening at work at the moment. let’s wait and see.
the data powered spiral to the bottom. imagine doing something because you thought it was a good idea. not anymore. now you need data to back it up. but if you want to do something brand new, something without precedent, what do you do? look at data for similar projects? well there’s no such thing as similar when it comes to magic. and things that work are magic. survey people? well it’s very difficult to communicate an idea. sometimes the only way to communicate it is to show it, but then it already has to exist. so what on earth are we going to do? we can’t just keep repeating these aesthetic copies of what went before. this can’t be all there is.
i feel a bit sick, maybe i ate some bad fish. thursday was a long day, but it was so beautiful at the end. it’s nice to walk around and have a little burrito and walk around. zips handed over my birthday present. imported from italy. it’s a dolce & gabbana bialetti french press. it’s fantastic. i haven’t received many birthday presents in my life from people i’m not yet related to. i’ve had so many coffees from it already.
i’d forgotten how strong a psychological boon it is to have such a clean and shiny home. it stays with you everywhere, even when you are walking around outside.
rejoice!
zaina came over and we did a deep clean of my apartment. truly it is the springtime. it was a wonderful time. one of my favourite weekends. my apartment is twice the square footage now. i almost get bored walking from one side of the room to the other, because there is so much space in here. perhaps a little too eager in getting rid of superfluity. i no longer own an oven glove or a toothbrush. but it’s worth it. it’s like i’ve just moved in. maybe i’ll throw everything else away too. what a lovely birthday. birthmonth. did you know it’s the anniversary of my birthyear? very sleepy, very sleepy.
you’re swell.
double digits.
good night.
zeezy is kent, hi zeezy!
so am i! hi rabbit! happy birthday!!!
i’m so relaxed, and i smell like pigs. we went to kent to brush a goat. the sheep were so nice to meet. especially rupert, who is a very nice sheep. very soft. really dig your hand in there and scrunch around. he’s made of wool and he likes it. it’s fun having pigs eat snacks from around your feet. it was one of the warmest weekends on record. the alpacas were nice too. hopefully they will make for the cover to pet sounds.
not the weather i mean. that’s probably obvious.
we met a lovely horse later, on the way back to our airbnb. it came right up and said hello. zaina made us a lovely ulster fry for breakfast. and we had assam with milk. everything that hapepned was very good.
a lot of the week was spent tidying up. this week will too. time to start eating only cucumbers. spring is here. zaina bought me flowers. they are very beautiful and blooming on my kitchen table. it’s nice to have flowers around. i’ve been speaking to them and feeding them and feeling their petals. and picking off anything that’s changed colour to look death.
really enjoying the sound recently of how whatsapp degrades recorded music. i would happily listen to an album of whatsapp-downsampled tracks. feel free to make one. i’ll listen.
thanks to everyone who beeped the beepulator last week, i enjoyed beeping with you.
thanks as well to whoever keeps listening to my music on spotify. i get little e-mails every now and again that tells me what people are listening to and that’s very nice to read.
sorry to everyone who has text me + i haven’t replied. i’m so bad at texts now. i see all the red circles, they’re on my mind.
we’re on the train now, almost home. will be so cozy to be in bed.
yay.
x