Feb 14th, 2008

I had a great time in London, simply because........... I got the job offer.

So now I have to sign it. More info soon. And my luggages have arrived, which is really a pain in the arse because I am moving again, this time, temporarily to Zurich and then to the middle east, somewhere.

Feb 14 was actually lovely for me. I got the news after a comfort-food breakfast and was on my way to blow some megawatt cash because of all the sticky factors preceding. I had G with me , which is great and will be seeing him next week in London to teach him how to do some solid dim sum.

I have to admit I was schlogging the gin and tonic a lot before and after the news about the offer. I ended up in metro club, on tottenham court road, and had the powerful red lipstick on in force. IT WORKS. I thought it was good for the occasional flip off, but wearing red lipstick seems to scare the weirdos and attract the bankers. I got thrown a bouquet of flowers by the lead of Idle Lovers, which cd I will actually buy [record out in april] and ended up hanging out till the next afternoon with this guy called R who works in -anonymous icelandic bank-.

It was a strange meeting of sorts. My best friend was stuck at work, so gin was the poison of choice and I was alone through the whole set. I thought I'd go finish my 30 quid worth of spare change and fall asleep. Turns out 14th feb is a pretty good day to let down inhibitions. Think how depressing it is to see masses of expensive roses that you don't either need to buy or receive. You are not involved in the big scamper. Was on the tenth g&t [they cost £2 each at this indie dive joint] and somehow we started talking, one of the first things said being 'where are you from' . It kicked off and I am now exhausted because we were very very inebriated and up talking all night. We only managed to catch lunch at 3pm the next day.

Turns out R wears a suit all day but rebels by wearing jewellery under his cuffs, collects books, doesn't play video games, is a motorhead and hoards champagne.

Hmm.