Has anyone else ever noticed that the chime used by MSN messenger (mac OS) to signal that one of your contacts has signed on is the opening chord for "shell shock" by New Order? I swear I get that song in my head every dammed time, and yet, I can't bring myself change the settings.
This weekend was lively. I went out dancing again on Friday night, even though I really can't afford it. It's just that I enjoy the company so much, as well as the music and being out at night in the summer. It's very difficult to say no when you still have a few pounds left in your bank account. Even the cab ride home across the city with the sun just beginning to lighten the horizon is a wonderful treat.
Then Saturday I spend most of the day nursing a hangover. I don't know why I forget that drinking to excess causes bad things to happen to you the next day. Maybe because I don't do it enough! Saturday night me and Bill went to a little get together in Clapham, not too far from our house. It was cozy and nice. Meet some crazy English people, listened to cool music and nearly froze to death on the way home. I must remember that after the sun goes down it can get quite chilly on a motorcycle.
Today was boring but in a nice Sunday kind of way. Listened to npr via the web to try and create that weekendy feeling (wait wait & TAL) while having my morning coffee. Had to go pick up the scooter from somewhere in West London, so I rode on the back of the bike in the warm summer air and then back again on the scooter. There are some really big ugly buildings out that way. Went shopping, running, watched 6 Feet Under and finally got around to putting all my CDs into a huge book thing so I can throw away all their jewel cases. I don't have very many CDs anymore. I found myself wanting to listen to Summertime Rolls by Jane's Addiction for some odd reason, which I don't own it anymore. (Well I went and downloaded it of course. I would have bought it the nice and legal way through iTunes music store, but hey they won't take my money, its dirty and foreign.) That whole album (Nothing's Shocking) always makes me feel like I did the summer I listened to it a million times, and did stupid things like go skinny dipping in the ocean, half drunk, in the middle of the night. Damn that was a good summer.
Tomorrow I am meeting someone about doing a web site. I am kind of nervous about doing it because it's been a while since I actually did something like this. (Doing my own web site doesn’t count. I don’t have to follow anyone's rules, and it doesn’t have to work perfectly.) Have to get my brain back into "work" mode somehow. Rather be in the ocean floating on a surfboard waiting for a nice wave. But that’s not going to happen, not for a while anyway.
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