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And Day 3

After the last 2 days of rushing around and keeping busy and all, it was nice to spend today relaxing and unwinding. We were meeting up with Bob’s friends Jason and Rachel today for some yum yum dim sum in town in the afternoon, which would be cool no doubt. I craved this food.

We had a lazy morning. Neither of us felt like getting up early, and I kept doing the whole microsleeps thing, you wake up for a minute or so, then go back to sleep again immediately, and again, and again. Eventually we crawled out of bed a little after 12pm, mainly cos we realised we were due to be meeting Jason and Rachel at 1pm haha. Rush. But luckily y’know, we’re not the kind of people who spend aaages getting ready. Well, not too long anyhow.

As it happens we were slightly late, but we were still there first. We met them at East Putney station and it was chucking it down (again). We didn’t linger and went straight to the restaurant, the Royal China. I guess it’s a good sign when a restaurant has a slight queue of people inside waiting for tables. Fortunately it wasn’t so long that it extended outside in the cold and rain, and despite the slight queue, we didn’t have to wait long at all for a table either. We got a nice round one with a parachuting Santa above it

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Right I’m about to go to bed but I’m so excited about the week ahead! Here’s why:

Bob is coming tomorrow to stay for a week. This is the Main Excitement. But tomorrow will be awesome during the day as well before he gets here. Firstly I’m going into College in the morning, tis the Language Dept annual cake competition, and a lot of people from my old classes will be there yay. After that I shall be taking a train straight to Leeds where I will bus it up to Lucy’s flat. Well actually I will take the bus to Subway where she will give me FREE SUBS and THREE ice cream scoops of tuna in my sandwich. Love her.

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On Saturday, Day 2 of my weekend in London, lots of things went wrong. Lots of good things happened as well, and I had a great day, but y’know, things didn’t go exactly as planned…

We were due to meet Max and co in central London at 2pm. Now, okay, 2pm isn’t exactly the crack of dawn, but we had gone to sleep about 4 or 5am, me and Bob were exhausted from a week of work, and we had a full breakfast to cook and eat before we could set off! We got up maybe half 10, 11ish, Bob and Stu battled it out on Smash Bros while I feel asleep again on the sofa. They dragged Kazzie out of bed about 12, and we set to cooking brekkie. I think we only finished eating about 2pm haha.

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So last weekend we had arranged a little gathering to celebrate Stu’s birthday, and since it was in London and all twas the perfect excuse to extend it to last a nice four days to spend some quality time with Bob We’re both working full-time now so our time together gets a bit crippled, but it’s very very very fine.

I took advantage of my flexitime option at work and took Friday afternoon and the following Monday (03/12) off work, and booked me some nice cheap train tickets down south for a weekend with the boyfriend

Ace. Let’s get cracking.

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And as usual I was taking photos. My friend Sarah who I was with said to me,

“Your life is going to be one big photo collection. That’s amazing.”

And I thought, yes, it is.

Saturday 22nd 2007, two days before her birthday, we decided to have a mini-meet in Leeds for some birthday sushi action. Initially we were going to et a huge sushi platter from Sisushi, as Inn gets a yummy 20% off for being a member. But we couldn’t decide which one to get. Did we go all out and get the Deluxe platter with 70 pieces? Or Sushi Party 2 with 78? There were 4 (possibly 5) of us…

We got to Sisushi about half 2, still unsure of which to get. We were getting it take-out, then driving to Kev’s house to eat it, so we spent ages still deciding. I can’t remember who suggested it, but it came up… why only get one? Why not TWO?

A good point. Lindsay was now going to join in so that made it 5 of us, and if we bought 2 platters the price was little different than buying one. Sooo for £12 each we bought 105 pieces of sushi: Sushi Party 2 platter and Zero-Fish platter. It was amazing!

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It is now September 1st. Happy birthday Amy. She’s incredible. One of these people who you actually wish you were. I met her three and a half years ago when I went to China (this is the point where I dig up a really old and oh so flattering photo of me aged 14 in China…). I don’t see her that often these days, so it was a nice surprise when she turned up on my door today with her friend Forrest. Yes I know what you’re thinking, I also couldn’t get this image out of my head when I met Forrest:

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There’s a lot of stuff I want to write about but they’re a lot of small bits and bobs so I’ll just write them all together here as I think of them.

I have a plate of birthday cake next to me here. It is looking at me. I don’t want to eat it because I am full already. Stop looking at me you piece of cake.You don’t even have eyes but you are looking at me!

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My first time at Leeds festival. There were good bits, there were bad bits, there were some amazing and unforgettable bits. But half hour guitar/bass jams after every single song is Boring with a capital B. Mr Frusciante and Mr Flea, please take note.

Despite wearing suncream I still ended up very sunburnt and sore and red, but luckily the weather cooled down slightly towards the end of the weekend. No rain though The toilets were gross but what can you expect. I stole Bob’s DSLR on the friday for some photo action… the other days I used my compact, didn’t want to risk bringing the 30D to the festival.

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Was meant to be having a night in Manchester to see The Living End who play in England about once every ten years because they aren’t signed over here and can’t get a record deal over here and thus can’t book shows over here and FINALLY they book some shows this week and I have my tickets all ready and ooh I’m excited and ooh I get the train to Manchester with my dear brother Alan and we walk 2930582935 miles to the Academy venue and ooh. A sign on the door tells us it’s cancelled.

It’s cancelled cos of illness, but rescheduled for Thursday. Oh, so that’s Thursday as in, the day I’m going to Leeds festival. Dammit. They are playing Leeds fest on Saturday but you just know it’ll be about a 10 minute set in a tiny tent. Alan’s seeing them in London tomorrow and he can make Thursday. I can’t

But ooh yay I have a visitor tomorrow. You know who it is