and brought us to reach this season

[liv]

In the last few days, I've had lots of first ever experiences.

• I attended an arts event held in a squat.
• I tried my hand at food service.
• I heard slam poetry performed by a Black guy who had decided to move from hiphop into the pale, pale world of spoken word.
• I woke up in a house where frying bacon for breakfast actually happens.
• I listened to klezmer fused with Scottish, Turkish and various other musical styles.
• I visited Amazonia, the incredibly amazing residence of ewtikins and khalinche.
• I sat inside a church organ and watched the organist from close up.
• I had an extended conversation with the aforementioned khalinche in a quiet room where I could concentrate on her being fascinating.
• I missed the train for a carefully planned and important long-distance journey (but got there in the end, just a couple of hours late.)
• I used room service to order food (it was the only way I was going to get something to eat after the late arrival).
• I ate a hotel breakfast that was freshly cooked to order, and hadn't been sitting around on hotplates all morning.
• I visited Stoke-on-Trent.
• I saw hatam_soferet looking extremely dapper and cute in braces (the trouser kind, not the teeth kind!)

• I interviewed for a job that is uniquely perfect for me because it is in fact two half-time jobs combined, one in research and one in teaching.

Comments

[lethargic_man]

the pale, pale world of spoken word.

Tell Benjamin Zephaniah that!

[nanaya]

Benjamin Zephaniah is a lovely bloke (I remember about 16 years ago when my friends of mine were first interviewing him in little cut-and-copy 'zines, so it's nice he's got such recognition now), but I do think he's a great deal more recognisable for his ethnicity than his poetry. That's a shame. But it does appear to be a recognised phenomenon - the you-can-only-have-one-exotic-person-at-once syndrome. I wonder if it has a name.

[emperor]

Good luck with the job :)

On an evening Keele

[hairyears]

Sounds like an entertaining day...

khalinche is the perfect dining companion: you can concentrate on her being fascinating and indulge the sensual pleasure of fine food and wine. Nevertheless, she pokes me occasionally for eating bacon with everything and I treasure the thought that she has a secret vice and Amazonia revels in the blessed aroma of a bacon breakfast after I have trundled off to work.

In other news... How did the interview go? Did they like you? Did they produce a mirror and ask you to breathe?

[redbird]

Good luck on the job.

[khalinche]

*blush* it was a really exceptional day of conversation, I very much enjoyed being able to talk with you about everything and anything. You were quite fascinating yourself. Many congratulations on the job, and I *so* look forward to more opportunities to talk now that you'll be living closer by.