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let's try again.
i turned my laptop on to sort out some paperwork for the raft race and now here i am, three hours later, completely derailed by updates and programme-uninstalls and photo back-ups. oof.
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oh hey, so PRIDE WAS SO GOOD! i have a friend who thinks of halloween as 'come as you aren't and i always feel like pride is very much come as you are. i went in rainbows and glitter and it was SO MUCH of what i needed, i can't even tell you.
i kind of hid away the day after because, shit, this cold i've had on and off for a month (it's two colds) burst into something else for a day. i spent the week after hacking up a lung. i'm finally, finally at the tail end of it and feeling up to doing things that aren't just going to work and coming home to sleep.
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it's been hot in the uk, kind of endlessly so. i wish it were, like, 3 degrees cooler, with a breeze, but in the meantime i've been walking part-way to work in the morning. only part-way because the full trek is just shy of 2 hours and i don't got that kind of time, even leaving at 6am.
i've not been sleeping well for the past few weeks - part heat, part aforementioned hacking up of lungs - and i'm pretty certain my hormones are ticking over, so i've been waking up at 5-5:30 on the regular. this isn't out of the ordinary in terms of my previous schedule, but is now that i don't actually have to wake up at that time. i know it will sort itself out in september but, like, jeez.
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on thursday evening i went to knit night then met my dad and my sister at king's cross to take the train home with them. they'd been at wimbledon that day watching the women's semis, and it was kind of nice to meet up with them at king's cross. london doesn't really feel like their thing, even though my sister was one of my temps for a while and dad used to live here.
i had friday off and took the train to manchester where i met up with my bff. we went to macron stadium to see the killers play the second of two stadium gigs they'd boked as part of their european summer tour. it. was. a. maz. ing. i love them! i love watching them live. they have enough albums now to really run a crowd and the last half hour was back-to-back slammers. it's always such an intense experience.
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speaking of intense experiences: i'm considering getting tickets to chvrches for feb 2019, and metric announced an end of november gig at the forum in kentish town. that is a great venue for them - very intimate - and i'm very tempted. but: i'm also being better with money. maybe i just say no. idk.
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i've been watching the alienist and ooh, boy, i don't know y'all.
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Yes! I love that.
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