Sunday, 26 October 2008

we gained an hour

hi. i have been reading about death and suffering today. susan sontag talks about the interrelation of the horrifying and the sexual. she cites this man who says that we all have a secret desire to see things that appal us. i can see that. it reminds me of J.G. Ballard's book about people who get turned on by car crashes.

i have a bit of cabin fever because i've been inside most of the day save a quick trip to the Great Land of Sains. but i am in a good mood. i escaped and went to london on friday with kiran for my sister's 18th birthday party. she had it at the amersham arms and it was a lot of fun despite the fact that me and k were the oldest people there. we just got drunk and danced to a gloriously camp mixture of motown and 80s and tried not to come on to any young boys. it was nice to go home and see my mum sister stepdad cat and have some proper food, but i decided not to stay more than one night because i needed to get some work done. so i left on saturday morning but in fact did not end up working, instead going to oxford street in a slightly-still-drunk hungovery state and wandering dreamily around massive topshop trying not to bump into other people. i nearly bought things but then realised that buying things when slightly inebriated is not a good idea (in cambridge i once bought a CD of Native American music from a busker for about £12 whilst drunk. no wait, that was a great purchase). oh and also i am 76% sure that i saw agyness deyn in american apparel. i regret that i did not have a chance to touch her.

and now i am back in cambridge and my eyes are fuzzy from reading againand i'm pretty sure my liver must be dead owing to the large amount of alcohol that i have consumed over the last few days. oh dear. but we gained an extra hour! hooray! i hope to find something productive to do with it this evening.

so (one hour) long(er)!

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