yan_tan_tether, posts by tag: rl - LiveJournal

I am utterly shattered due to waking up at 5:30 this morning and not being able to get back to sleep (it was a typical London morning: birds were singing and twenty different sirens were going by) but I can't go to bed until the peanut butter blondies I'm making for the office bake off have come out of the oven. It's been a good day though; I bought a ticket to go to what will be my first festival in years, which has one of my favourite artists as a headliner, and which will involve meeting up with a couple of really good friends who I don't see nearly enough of these days. Even though I swore off camping after Glastonbury 2008, I'm excited!

It's also been one of those weeks when I'm just in love with fandom. When I was googling "who is Nick Grimshaw" about eighteen months ago I'm not sure I thought I'd ever find myself waving a home-made (surreptitiously, using office stationery) sign and cheering him on as he finished his twelve-hour Sports Relief cycling challenge, but I'm so glad that I went along  on Monday. And there's a hilarious picture of us on the Radio 1 website where we look amazingly enthusiastic, and the women directly to the right and left of us look amazingly unimpressed.

Last night I had my first experience of lane swimming, which was mildly terrifying because usually I just breast-stroke up and down the non-laned part of the pool with the old ladies. I managed not to drown or crash into anyone though so, win?

ONLY JUST OVER A WEEK TILL WINTER SOLDIER AUUGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

Today I finally managed to take sunsetmog for the best lesbian noodles in London at a place which, by day, is a greasy spoon but by night transforms into a fantastic Thai restaurant staffed solely by a lady called Mama Irene who does all the cooking and waitressing herself and grows all the veggies the restaurant uses in her allotment. The walls are covered in softcore art of naked women (naked woman reclining; naked woman with sword; naked blue woman squatting in a shower), all done by her girlfriend. It's pretty great.

The weekend just gone I was feeling massively feverish and exhausted and headachey so all I did (apart from go visit wildestranger and watch Avengers and eat her food and have a confusing encounter with a drunken young man who was unexpectedly in her back garden) was read space porn and tons of Dorothy L Sayers.

Reading people's twitter comments about DOMA and Wendy Davis today made me tear up happily at my desk. And here in the UK the equal marriage bill is still inching its way through the Lords and, providing there isn't too much fuckery at Report Stage, stands a fair chance of being given Royal Assent by the end of the third week in July!