gloriously late

Okay, so I’ve been quite miserable about posting, but that’s only because I am genuinely enjoying my time here. Life with Juliet has been fantastic, and I’m now interning at the FT.

Past few days have been 6am starts, which I actually like because London feels like London at that time – dreary, rainy, empty grey, looking about for bowler hats, Unreal City/Under the brown fog of a winter dawn…

FT is not particularly interesting, nor difficult. This doesn’t bother me because now focus is life outside internship.

Brief notes on things that happened a while ago:
Caught an underground Babyshambles concert! It was an awesome gig, despite that fact that Doherty was fucked and the mike didn’t work. Just 50 people there at most, in the back of a bar, very very cool. Closed with an incredible version of Fuck Forever.

The next day (I think) Juliet and I left for Krakow, where the first thing I did was buy a Zapekanke (polish pizza) – essentially stale baguette with mushrooms, cheap cheese and ketchup – and Juliet combusted while eating a kebab. Over the weekend we explored a couple bookstores, the Japanese gallery (best sushi in Poland), Kazimierze (the Jewish district – my first visit to a synagogue), lolled about in main square watching birds, wandered amorously secluded areas by the riverside of the castle, and visited a couple art galleries.

We were slightly handicapped by the fact that Juliet was exhausted from Vietnam and completely narcoleptic, which meant that we’d send two hours site-seeing, then be forced to duck into a café so she could get her caffeine fix.

Other events of that weekend: spent a lovely evening but missed dinner because we were off by an hour (still on GMT), met my family who were in Poland (which was nice), battled a dragon at the museum (air conditioner on/off episodes), and ate lovely pierogi

Next time I’ll write about going to a lavish wedding but not meeting anyone because I was with Juliet the whole time, and highlights of a couple weekends.