Virtual Office Tuesday 11th August

[byslantedlight]

This morning may have involved playing purposeful hooky in the expectation of working all afternoon/evening, but then all plans being thrown into disarray resulting in - eep! But so far so fab... *g*

1. Downloaded (with alot of faff - stoopid drm) the new KJ Charles book (A Fashionable Indulgence, an actual m/m romance book published actually by a major publisher - Penguin/Random House!). It's not the sort of cover that draws me in, to be honest, but she's exactly the sort of author... *g*

2. Phone call from new hairdresser (eep!), catching me just as I was about to leave (eep!) saying my new hairdresser (eep!) was sick today (eep!) but I could see someone at 4pm instead of 1pm, and still have my hair cut (after seven months or so - eep!) So... instead of playing hooky all morning and then having the rest of the day to work... eep!

3. Finally got to NT Place, to attend talk where this thing was opened up for us to see... *g*
It's "the Pope's Cabinet", is all gaudy bronze gilt and polished stone and alabaster, is about 500 years old, was made in Rome and bought by chappy whose heart had been broken when his wife died so he went off on a Grand Tour of Europe because he couldn't stand to stay at home. This was one of the things that he brought back with him... *g* It has hundreds of wee hidden drawers in it - some hidden inside other drawers - and it used to also be partly a musical organ! It's one of my favourite things in the house and you don't get to see inside it on an ordinary visit, so yeay!

Then, as I was innocently driving home like a goodun, instead of going to the supermarket, I happened to glance over at a row of shops and saw that this place was actually open... ...for the first time since I've lived in Somerset (and been going past the shop *g*), so I had to stop. (And, you know, buy a copy of Nation cos Terry Pratchett said he thought it was the best book he'd written) and possibly a t-shirt... Cos. The Discworld Emporium! *g*

And then the main road home was closed, so I diverted the twizzly ways, and then I had to have lunch cos starving, and now I have barely any time to work before I have to leave for my haircut (eep!).

Today's Work
NT talk
Haircut

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Hacktrack mile
Riverford dinner
Fiddle practice
Writing


Ah well, its all good fun and panicked-rush, isn't it... *g*

Comments

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

What an incredible work of art! I hope your day is going well, and the work will get done as it should, in its time...

That book cover brought to mind my favorite couple in Sense8 - Lito and Hernando... be still my heart! I only watched the first 6 or so episodes, then stopped. Sometimes a show will be so good, I'll be enjoying it, and then I get over halfway and I can't bear to continue because bad things are about to happen and I don't want to face them, even to get to the ending I want. I think I will finish it, though. Have you seen it? Looking around for images of L and H made me want to watch it again... I couldn't find an image that really matches what that cover is doing, but oh well. Here's a small taste of them:

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Oh, cute-looking couple! I had to look up Sense8, cos I'd never heard of it, but ooh, new SF! I like the sound of it too - I wonder if I can get my paws on it somehow... *g*

I've got to admit that I'm not convinced by the models on the cover - the clothes are pretty good, but there's something about their hair... or maybe I'm being unfair, and if I compared with paintings it would match perfectly well!

Still not started work properly yet - or made dinner. Only just home and I paused on lj! Eeeeep!

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

Oh dear - I can only sympathize - know exactly how that feels!
BTW, I don't know if this will work over there, but I watched it here:
http://ezseries.tv/sense-8-s01e01/
Maybe? Someday? when time has stopped...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link! It says it wants me to download something called MusicHub Search, which is a search engine - I'm always a bit suspicious of these things. Did you have to do that? Was it okay?