» Thursday was a very long day. Not one of those long days where you feel like someone has grabbed each end of the day and stretched it, but one of those days when someone actually HAS. And not only that - they pulled with all their might.

I got up at 8am to the sounds of my parents arguing about who would have the privelege of taking me to the train station ("You do it", "No! You do it" followed by "I suppose I'll do it", "No, I suppose I'll have to"). An hour later, I am on my way to London. By 11am I am crossing London, and by 1pm I am at the airport. Two hours pass. 3pm - we board the flight and then it is a mere 11 hours before I land in LA. 6.30pm LA time (PST), 2.30am for me.

Kerry collects me and soon we are watching episodes of Friends that are repeats to him and partner (Sean), but have yet to even appear on cable in the UK (8pm PST / 4am GMT). Around 10pm PST (6am GMT) Sean and Kerry decide we have to go to a nearby club. I am surprised how chirpy I feel and agree instantly. But by the time we reach 7am GMT (11pm PST) I am wilting savagely. Kerry drives me back and installs me in a bed.

Where I suddenly (of course) find it impossible to sleep (for various reasons - not worth going into particularly). 2am comes and goes (PST), at which point Sean reappears - bright-eyed and bushy-tailed and with a great big grin on his face. It is nearly 5am PST, 1pm GMT before any of us manage to sleep. And by 10am the next morning (which of course I think is 5pm) I am wide awake - eager for stimulation again...

27 hours awake. 5 hours asleep. I will be dead before the week is out.

2.3.00

» OK. It is 8am, and I am about to be driven to my train, from whence to another train, and so to the airport, and so for an 11 hour flight to LA, arriving around five-thirty pm. Wish me luck....

29.2.00

» According to Evhead, Jason is wearing a cool t-shirt with a body tag on the front and an end body tag on the back (if this means nothing to you it means that you are a dinosaur and will be unemployable within a year). Jason mentions the very same thing on his site - he is apparently wearing this shirt-of-almighty-cool. However, as far as I can tell, he hasn't done a stroke of work all day, which means I haven't been able to see him, which means no glimpse of astonishing clothing artefact. Very depressing.

Once upon a time there was this girl called Katy, and I met her at this thing that the ******** ** **.*****.**.** were having in London (it's a geek thing, and I am too embarrassed to go into details - see if you can guess). Anyway - it was my first IRL meeting with people I had met online and I thought everyone would be a complete freak. Needless to say, they weren't - and Katy has fast become one of my premièe online friends. Today she directed me towards a really cool thing that another online foxtress (Zannah) has put together: windoze 2000.

» My passport arrived today. Which means I am off to LA in a couple of days (probably Thursday now). Kerry is being really sweet and dropping me little warning notes about the weather in California at the moment. Let's just compare them, shall we? London weather vs. LA weather. Now which one do I prefer?

28.2.00

» The Bomb has been linked to from Suck. How cool is that. I mean - I should probably talk more about the article itself, but this is Monday Self-Promotion Night, not the Bi-Weekly Friday Philosophy Marathon.

» I love prolific. She said nice things (as least I think she did... why - "heh, heh, heh"?) about the pictures of me at slutcore. I'm such a sucker for a bit of ego stroking...

27.2.00

» "What are we going to do with a room full of genetically-modified homosexual corn?" asked Harry Hill on television tonight. I wanted to help him find an answer by sending you all to look at harryhill.com - but apparently it was a fansite and was shut down by an overzealous production company. If anyone can find a decent Harry Hill site, then let me know asap.

I've written this post three times today and every time, something has fucked up. This is my final attempt before pouring coffee on my parents' computer and tearing out all my hair. And I have so much to say... I am finally back in Norfolk after the marathon moving session. After work on Friday I got a train back to Norfolk (arrived at 10pm), grabbed about four hours sleep before jumping into my mother's car, driving back to London, picking up Nick C and Nick E (who had very graciously helped me pack), finally managing to get back to Norfolk by half-past six. Bloody exhausting day, all things considered. Now all I have to do is wait for my passport and I'm off to LA. Watch out, Kerry - here I come!

There's an article in the Sunday Times today which is being discussed at the moment in the Nexus - it's about two superheroes called Apollo and Midnighter who are both men and having a relationship. Quite why this is a newsworthy story is beyond me. There have been gay superheroes for years - find out more at the Gay League of America.

I remain in regular contact with the ever-changing site of riothero. Over the last couple of days, he has said some really nice things about me in both e-mail and on his site - like it's good to be 27 and that I don't look like the back end of a bus. Which is nice. I'm a bit embarrassed actually, as I can't help thinking he must have hit the juice quite hard recently to have caused such brain-collapse and eye-failure. Anyway, the conversation reminded me of one of my old sites, which is basically a photo album. Check it out if you like: slutcore.

Just when you thought things couldn't get any more self-referential - the weblogging universe collapses.

Finally, a couple of updates on yesterdays posts. Not that it really matters, but barbelith has reappeared on Metalog ratings. riothero and wetlog have now explained to me why I had dropped off - apparently it is post-redesign linkage withdrawal. I suppose that makes sense. Having said that though, I think my reappearance at number 28 makes it clear that you only have to ask a stupid question or say something controversial to get rated once more. Go figure.

[Addendum: Thanks to Weblog Wannabe for the Smurfalizer link (see yesterday).]