thisdarcy (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} thisdarcy) wrote,@ 2005-09-14 16:45:00 |
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the replacement
i have a new ipod! finally got my appointment with the 'genius bar' at the apple store. had to wake up 8:30 this morning to get the train into central, got to the apple store 10:30, booked my appointment, met up with matt hart for tea and was back for 2 to state my case. guy took one look at it, put it to his ear, said, oh that's the death rattle, and agreed it needed replacing. ten minutes later i was walking out of the store with a shiny new ipod. i vow to keep this one scratch-free (by not doing stupid things like putting it in a pocket with my keys...!) and may in fact splurge for a case. my music is semi-on its way to me. it just began the trek from home, via canada post, to toronto yesterday where tamara will receive it, then send it along to brian, her father, who will in turn pilot an air canada plane to london, as he sometimes does, and hand my music over to me. before the end of october my cds should all be in my grasp and syphoned onto my ipod. its all coming together now...
had dinner at matthew's monday night. very lovely meal and i met and got on great with his sister, so all systems are go for me moving in at the end of the month. also, i took a look at the room, which i thought was pretty smart, and its quite spacious with a very large bed. i couldn't be more pleased about that. i had a nightmare getting home that night, though. i was getting the last train, and i had to make a connection at another station to do so, but the first train was delayed just enough for me to miss my connection! so there i was in an unknown-to-me part of london, wandering around trying to find a bus stop. by the time i figured out where i was and how to get home i missed two of the buses i should have taken, then was forced to wait an hour in the lonely cold for the night bus to start up so i could get it to take me all the way back to crystal palace. it was after 2am by the time i got home - i left matthew's at 11 expecting to be home before midnight. sigh. but still, it was a lovely evening before the journey home fiasco.
earlier that day i took in the natural history museum with katheryn. that place is so cool. i saw so many fully assembled dinosaur skeletons that were truely awe inspiring. also, i learned how babies are made. all in all i learned a lot!
katheryn came over the day before, on sunday, and we ate junk food and watched a movie and drank beers and ate curry and watched a lot of angel, which she had never seen before and at one time ridiculed but now admits that it is awesome and wants to see more. i mean, its not like i'm lying when i say its a great show! people need to realize.
in other news, i've switched to the train as my main mode of transportation. for only £3 extra a week i get: a (mostly) dependable schedule, shorter journey times, a quiet and comfortable ride - none of which the bus can even come close to offering. it had gotten to the point where i couldn't even read on the bus, especially the night bus home. i love the train. i wish i'd figured that out sooner!
currently reading susanna clark's, jonathan strange and mr norrell. its about the restoration of english magic in the early 19th century, during the war against napoleon. its huge. i'm a mere 200 pages in now and it just gets better and better. i'll be the rest of this month on this one i imagine. i did enjoy vernon god little, by dbc pierre, though i do think it has been a bit over-hyped. i can see how gq named it one of the 100 best things in the world. by which i mean i can see how gq would say that. i'd compare it to miriam toews, a compicated kindness, with the main contrasts being that its a female coming of age/thwarting the odds story, and that its set in canada, which i can see being two reasons why it might be more likely overlooked on the international stage. i think kindness was a much better book.
i'm looking to buy a laptop. £200 or less. basically a portable typerwriter that can burn cds and check e-mail.
the very lovely, long lost friend, heather payne has gotten in touch with me! ah the memories come flooding back. its my most exciting news of the week.
i have a new ipod! finally got my appointment with the 'genius bar' at the apple store. had to wake up 8:30 this morning to get the train into central, got to the apple store 10:30, booked my appointment, met up with matt hart for tea and was back for 2 to state my case. guy took one look at it, put it to his ear, said, oh that's the death rattle, and agreed it needed replacing. ten minutes later i was walking out of the store with a shiny new ipod. i vow to keep this one scratch-free (by not doing stupid things like putting it in a pocket with my keys...!) and may in fact splurge for a case. my music is semi-on its way to me. it just began the trek from home, via canada post, to toronto yesterday where tamara will receive it, then send it along to brian, her father, who will in turn pilot an air canada plane to london, as he sometimes does, and hand my music over to me. before the end of october my cds should all be in my grasp and syphoned onto my ipod. its all coming together now...
had dinner at matthew's monday night. very lovely meal and i met and got on great with his sister, so all systems are go for me moving in at the end of the month. also, i took a look at the room, which i thought was pretty smart, and its quite spacious with a very large bed. i couldn't be more pleased about that. i had a nightmare getting home that night, though. i was getting the last train, and i had to make a connection at another station to do so, but the first train was delayed just enough for me to miss my connection! so there i was in an unknown-to-me part of london, wandering around trying to find a bus stop. by the time i figured out where i was and how to get home i missed two of the buses i should have taken, then was forced to wait an hour in the lonely cold for the night bus to start up so i could get it to take me all the way back to crystal palace. it was after 2am by the time i got home - i left matthew's at 11 expecting to be home before midnight. sigh. but still, it was a lovely evening before the journey home fiasco.
earlier that day i took in the natural history museum with katheryn. that place is so cool. i saw so many fully assembled dinosaur skeletons that were truely awe inspiring. also, i learned how babies are made. all in all i learned a lot!
katheryn came over the day before, on sunday, and we ate junk food and watched a movie and drank beers and ate curry and watched a lot of angel, which she had never seen before and at one time ridiculed but now admits that it is awesome and wants to see more. i mean, its not like i'm lying when i say its a great show! people need to realize.
in other news, i've switched to the train as my main mode of transportation. for only £3 extra a week i get: a (mostly) dependable schedule, shorter journey times, a quiet and comfortable ride - none of which the bus can even come close to offering. it had gotten to the point where i couldn't even read on the bus, especially the night bus home. i love the train. i wish i'd figured that out sooner!
currently reading susanna clark's, jonathan strange and mr norrell. its about the restoration of english magic in the early 19th century, during the war against napoleon. its huge. i'm a mere 200 pages in now and it just gets better and better. i'll be the rest of this month on this one i imagine. i did enjoy vernon god little, by dbc pierre, though i do think it has been a bit over-hyped. i can see how gq named it one of the 100 best things in the world. by which i mean i can see how gq would say that. i'd compare it to miriam toews, a compicated kindness, with the main contrasts being that its a female coming of age/thwarting the odds story, and that its set in canada, which i can see being two reasons why it might be more likely overlooked on the international stage. i think kindness was a much better book.
i'm looking to buy a laptop. £200 or less. basically a portable typerwriter that can burn cds and check e-mail.
the very lovely, long lost friend, heather payne has gotten in touch with me! ah the memories come flooding back. its my most exciting news of the week.
