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The last of the French invasion seem to be gone now. I have notified the letting agents that I will not be renewing my lease. That might have been a bit premature, have to wait and see, but need to find my own space. In the meantime... New flatmate seems to be ok. Moving in a week from now. At that point James' French sub-letter (yes, I'm aware) should be moving out. Come October.. we'll see, depends on what happens but I should be out of here in any case. The vendors of the flat I'm trying to buy phoned yesterday; I suspect they're getting impatient. Wouldn't blame them, this has gone so long and involved. It is absurd that I have nearly a 50% deposit and cannot get a mortgage for £36K for a place where I would spend far less in mortgage/maintenance/rent than I do in this rat-hole but there you go. Flavbirthdaydinner was good, I remember most of it. We had to abandon the garden at some point and take refuge in the basement at Bin Tang. Then we moved to Quinn's, which again was good, although there were a few faces that I thought I would see but were not there. Mind you, by then everybody seemed to have duplicated faces, I can only hope I didn't do anything embarrassing or offended anybody. I don't get drunk often, so perhaps I'm not au fait with the protocols required:D Didn't make it to Black Plastic last night, shame. Tonight, either Invocation or, wait, the Slimelight. I might go there, some friends I seldom see these days will be there. But then again.. In the meantime, some guitar practice and finishing the book I'm reading -and some doodling in Logic. Tags: diary, flavbirthdaydinner, house, life, stuff
Current Location: KTR
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Arepas in the grill, more coffee brewing (well, maybe not 'brewing' , it is an espresso machine but hey). Only glitch is the house full of strangers sleeping in corners, courtesy of ![[info]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) jamesknight's sub-tenant. Lesson in Gospel Oak in a little while, lesson in Stoke Newington a little later, a few things to do around the house, probably Reptile tonight. Sue's birthday drinks and Departure were all good last night. Took a few pictures at Sue's do in Garlic and Shots, but none at Departure. Had fun, though. The news headlines are still as depressing as ever. The world doesn't look too bad outside, though. Here we go. Tags: diary, house, life
Current Location: KTR
Current Music: the news on the telly
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... as I have had a couple of rather rough days. anyway, Happy slightly belated Birthday to ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) strangepixel, opandorao, misterfallen, lola_tate and transylviania! Hope it was all good and there was much cake and mirth. Apart from that, still got that tummy pain (no, it is not a tummy 'ache', there is a difference) but the temperature seems to be gone, had much better sleep last night. If I still have that pain by tomorrow I'll have to go to a doctor, but today needs an awful lot of stuff done. Good morning, all! Tags: birthdays, diary, life
Current Location: KTR
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I seem to have a relatively empty day in front of me. Many things to do, but not to a time-scale. Might pop over to Borough Market for cheese and salami. I should do some tidying, though, and packing away of stuff I don't expect I'll be needing in the next few weeks. Also do a little guitar practice, for which the aforementioned Bach's Chaconne is quite good, Between that and Andrew York's 'Sunburst' that should be a good technical finger, scale and arpeggio work-out. I also need to find an occupant for the empty room, I can't afford to pay all that rent on my own. I think I should advertise it on a three-month basis, as the contract here runs out in October and I won't be renewing it. Of course the new tenant could take it on in my stead (that was discussed with the agency). Hm. If you hear of anyone needing a room ... details in previous post. Inferno last night was very good (for me, one has to qualify). Crossing swords with ms_jinxme on the dance floor was lots of fun, even if I lost:P I think her friend did not quite like the fencing thing. There are several things happening tonight, a couple of birthdays; not sure what I'll do yet, if anything. First of all, though, breakfast.. Tags: house, life, stuff
Current Location: KTR
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Once again, the sickle of time falls onto the anvil of life turning it into the yoke that drives us towards -oh, ok, I'll leave the Humphrey Littleton impressions to someone else more capable. It being my birthday on Tuesday 14th, I'm thinking about the yearly flavbirthdaydinner at BinTang, followed by a quiet glass or ten in Quinn's. I was thinking of Thursday the 16th or Friday the 17th; both have pros and cons. Friday would be much more difficult to book, Thursday means people are still concerned about getting up early for work the next day, etc. What say you? It would be useful to know who's coming and which day is best. Please let me know either way. What, facelessbook event, did you say? Mm... maybe, when I decide on a day. [ Edit ] Will speak to the restaurant later and enquire about Thursday. Tags: flavbirthdaydinner
Current Location: KTR
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aliasrob and scarynic!! I may have missed some peeps' birthdays (not that I think they're waiting there with bated breath to read my b'day greetings, but still) given that my life seems to have been dominated of late by the flat quest -and given that I'm on my third part-buy mortgage application, etc maybe it is not too far-fetched to call it 'quest'. Mad times. I would easily have got a credit ten times as big two years ago, today it seems nigh on impossible. Lunch today with combat_kitten, which was nice. It was very good, that is, to see her. Next time I'll try and avoid the chili con cardboard. One insignificant little problem that I've just thought about: I'd like to go to the cinema more often, I miss so many movies I would like to see, but I can't really bring myself to go to the cinema on my own and I also have such weird working hours (most week-end evenings, for instance, whilst I have a lot of free time in the daytime). Not sure what I'm after with this, but would like to go to see some movies -not on my own and, b, obviously, at times I can actually go without cancelling lessons -any ideas welcome.Tags: birthdays, diary, house, life
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Week-end was generally good, although I seem to have missed on a lot of stuff happening that I would have liked to attend. Mostly just went to aliasrob’s birthday party on Saturday evening at the Resistance gallery -which was a blast. There will be a few pictures on my facebook, and there is now a little film clip of Adenoids playing the Kitty Song. Today, a few lessons and the tense wait for the next round of impossible stuff from the bank -last attempt. This probably sounds very cryptic, but it feels even more so. The way banks, property developers, mortgage vendors, lawyers and the like deal with the world is, to me, arcane and incomprehensible. I’d rather make music, but this has to be dealt with. It’ll be good if I can pull it, but it looks nigh on impossible now, no longer sure even why I keep trying. I still have a Dreamwidth invite code, if anyone wants it. Tags: diary, dreamwidth, life
Current Mood: sneezy
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I see on the BBC News channel that it is World Knitting in Public Day, with some women who call themselves something like guerrilla knitters wrapping posts and benches (in Covent Garden) with knitted wool. Change the world through knitting? The world certainly looks different from Hampstead, or wherever .... That, and the Iranian elections. I just don't even want to go there. They look so surprised that Mr Al-Med -oh, ok, can't spell or pronounce his name, sorry, has been declared the winner by a relatively large margin less than 24 hours after the poll. He might well have won for real, for many reasons, but it does look dodgy from here. In the meantime, life in the flavworld still on hold, waiting for things to happen. By Monday or Tuesday I should know. Hopefully. Today, a couple of lessons, some guitar practice and probably Last Days of Decadence in the evening. Tags: current affairs, diary, the information age
Current Location: KTR
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с днем рождения!! (well, it says here, E&OE) Happy Birthday, blackberryqueen !! have a lovely, lovely day!! ION, waiting to see what new and interesting insurmountable obstacle the mortgage people spring on me. Except I may have run out of miracles... we'll see. In the meantime, some guitar practice, lessons later, pub much, much later. Tags: birthdays
Current Location: literary café, tufnell park
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Back from school in Watford. Much shorter working day, this last half-term: all (well, the few I have in these categories) pupils doing year 11, GCSE, etc are away on 'study leave'. Some others are doing various exams or away on trips. Curiously, I find it difficult to use the time I spend waiting for pupils who end up not turning up, productively. A little bit of guitar practice, another exchange of emails with the people selling the flat, or brokering (is that the word) the mortgage, or the lawyers, etc. and I'm in that peculiar state where I can only wait for the next bit of news about how things are doing and everything else is just exasperating. How little patience I have when it comes to anything other than teaching the guitar. Good to see miss_amethyst last night at the Big Red. Briefly, as I had to come back for lessons here. Oh well. Tags: diary, life
Current Location: KTR
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Doing stuff round the house, sorting through stuff to see what I must keep or can throw away (this is really painful, I'm a natural hoarder and hate throwing stuff out) and, mostly, waiting. This sense of dread, as if I was waiting for the jury's verdict in a trial in which I don't even know what I'm accused of, this vague Kafkian empty horror. Throwing away hundreds upon hundreds of cassette tapes -and keeping as many, can't bring myself to throw all those bad rehearsals, concerts of friends, etc. Throwing away gazillions of magazines, magazine CDs (mostly Mac related, a few electronic music making related), VHS video tapes (the latter, under the classification system that if it hasn't got a label and I can't recall what it is, I won't be missing it anyway). Do I really need all those back copies of New Scientist? What do you mean, 'no'? And those CD backups going back to the mid-Nineties... And, ION and BTW, Happy Birthday, mr_flay!! Tags: birthdays, house, kipple, ktr
Current Location: KTR
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Still on the roller-coaster. Now it looks quite positive, but I'm expecting a bad turn any moment now. We'll see. One of the most hectic days I've had for quite a while, dealing with solicitors, flatpeople (a bit two dimensional, these) and mortgage brokers all day, plus a busy few lessons. One or two good things, though-but not ascribing the now hopeful situation with the flat in that category as it's all happened before and may happen again. Two new pupils, one of whom is a friend; interesting and potentially very rewarding lessons, in very different ways. This is good, it reminds me why I'm doing this for a living and not trying any of a number of things that would, in all probability, bring in more money. Tags: life
Current Location: KTR
Current Mood:  tired
Current Music: the computer fan, singing to itself
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