perevision

So someone limped up to the bookstore counter on a crutch and demanded my attention and I had an awful moment when I saw his face looked as if someone had ripped it off. Then I had another awful moment in which I tried to contain my horror for fear of offending him. Then I recognised his hair and saw his friends behind him and realised one of my friends at the bookstore had dressed as a zombie.

He acted totally in character too, as if he was really a zombie who just wanted a book. It was fun to play along! One of his friends accused me of discrimination against zombies (Reg Shoe, anyone?) and I answered archly that he hadn't actually asked me for specific books. Then he said "Do you have any books about brains?" XDDD

Me: (in Customer Service chirpy voice) Only in the medical section--we don't have any in the cookery section I'm afraid.

FUN. A lot more fun than any of the customers I had to serve today, and not nearly as freaky as the man who fell asleep on the couch in the Language department and was out for most of the day. Sound asleep, with his hand down his pants.

XDDD I loooooooooooooooooooooove this city.

Watched Paris Je T'Aime tonight to console myself for jamieyk going offski. Good stuff. Favourites: Gus van Sant, Gurinder Chadha, and Wes Craven (bwah!). Noticed that some of the directors played parts in other director's films. Very cute! Also, Chris Doyle hearts Zhang Yimou so much there should be fanfic. Or at least an LJ icon.

I am going to get work now. I have made CVs and cover letters for some bookstores and a graphic design firm. I've decided to give myself workdays and save the good stuff for the weekend and after hours. From now on I will do 9 to 5 every day. Ok, 10 to 6. I can stay here so I will fight harder to stay here. This week I will clean house, do laundry, work on the travel project and drop off CVs. On Sun am off to the Art Car Boot Fair at the Truman Brewery. Should be fun.

"If art were mainly an expression of personal vision, there could be no history of art." EF Gombrich, Psychology and the Riddle of Style

I am eating my first Marshmallow Peeps ever, courtesy of bex_x3d

( this week: pros and cons )

Forgot to mention we had our first hailstorm a week or so ago. The poor stripey spider in our garden was nearly stoned to death; fortunately it managed to scramble under our eaves just in time. Hail is really interesting when one has a house with a conservatory. Probably it's less interesting when one is not in the house ^^;

I am still thrilled by unusual weather. We had a nice hot summer--July was a bit sullen, but August and September made up for it. The headlines promise a "killer winter": I hope that means snow. But there are so many homeless people in the city...A friend of mine knows some hippies who've just been evicted from the abandoned church they lived in. I wonder what they're going to do now. It gets colder every day.

......I need an autumn icon with more red in it.

So petronia was in London, and I met her in person and her clever, funny, lovely friend cis, and we had a wonderful time perusing artworks and feeding birds and dancing in clubs (well, ok, one club) and wandering round Covent Garden. We took lots of pictures and walked till our feet were worn to stumps and revelled in London and all its Londony London-ness.

I haven't had this much fun for ages. Anybody else want to come visit? ^_^

Hmm. Plans for next time: both Tates, the Portrait Gallery, graffiti photo runs down the East End (possibly double-featured with a visit to Atlantis and Brick Lane ♥), Regent's Park and the Courtauld Institute. As long as we're talking wish lists, I might as well be overambitious.

actually the terrible reason why I didn't post right after the visit was that I couldn't get the pics all tweaked, zipped & uploaded for four whole days...^^;