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Date: 19 July 2006 10:47:36
Days can occasionally be gauged by an internal Sushiometre in my head. One sushi = good, two sushis = excellent etc.
Yesterday was a 2 Sushi day, no mistaking.
To clarify for them without Sushiometres:
Spent the morning baking gently in the sun watching my daughter in her schools sports day. Muchos fun, not spoiled by all of the youth groupers sitting and chanting my name when it came to the dads race. Tried to shout out encouragements to daughter and all of the youth groupers as they ran on a not at all cool day but was hamstrung on one race when six youth groupers took to the track out of a field of 8. Had to shout something vague and encouraging. Don't think they noticed either way.
Then got home to find out the workmem who have been digging up the road we live in for the best part of a week now, causing a not inconsiderable amount of chaos, had dug through the gas pipe so we had to be reinstalled and checked. Was late getting to Guildford and, subsequently, late getting to London due to a car fire at Clapham Junction which at one point seemed to delay every incoming train from the south of England to its noisey capital. Got to Waterloo to be greeted with more chaos, thousands of people milling around and no trains to be had.
Went to Gosh, the comic shop, on the suggestion of a good friend who writes the www.chewingpixels.com blog. Picked up the fanzine in question and, for good measure, the hardback book of Earth X which was on sale. Top stuff (the fanzine), fascinating interview yet, in many ways, quite dispiriting (for those with no intention of picking up the fanzine or checking out the blog it mainly concentrates on an interview with Alan Moore, an extremely talented writer with a habit of writing the grandest of set pieces next to the least attractive or pleasant of source material or chatacters. It looks in depth at his exploration of shamanistic and kabbalistic magic practices and the drug use that is inherent within the rites and roles as well as past and future projects and his work to date. Personally I find Moore an intriguing character, a talented writer - the ballad of Halo Jones being the pinnacle of comics when I first became a fan but then again I'm a sucker for Ian Gibson's splendid artwork and at the time did not realise the depth to the story - and someone who would very easily wipe the floor with me in either a fist fight or an argument. The depths of experience he has, in terms of writing and the rest, lead me to think that no argument I could make for my faith or the guidance it gives me, would be able to work around that, it would feel like a child arguing with an adult. That said the respect I have for him as a writer does not negate the foreboding I have towards his preferred working practises... )
Anyhow, grabbed the comics and popped down to the lovely Wasabi Sushi shop just outside of Embankment tube station. I love going in there and picking up something I know and like and something I've never tried. Yesterday it was a smoked salmon and cream cheese combination for one and a clam piece of sushi for the other. Yum.
Then went straight to Pimlico for the Premier radio station interview. Everyone was lovely and friendly, arrived, was given a coffee by me old mucker James :) then whisked straight into the studio, very plush, very air conditioned. Spoke to Cindy Kent for 20 minutes or over and then, following a question about the addictive nature of computer games and a facility set up in Amsterdam, I was whisked out again. Can't remember a word I said, do remember that she said ridiculous a number of times so looking forward to hearing a tape of it to check out the context. Me I just blathered along and, as ever, I hope it helped the cause of getting the book into the hands of kids it might help. I did have a game plan which I tried to stick to, but for the most part i just answered the questions asked and hoped I was making sense.
Got back to Waterloo. Still chaos so went back to Embankment for, yes, you guessed :) More sushi: yummers. This time: crab stick sushi, prawn sushi and a lovely little wasabi and.. tuna? number. Normally I'm not that big on tuna on sushi but that one just hit the spot.
Back to Waterloo, home at 7.50, put son boy to bed then out to a church group based at the local pub which, ahem, I feel a duty to support when I can :) Spoke there for a little while (the assistant vicar - although thats prob not his official job title - asked me to say a little bit about the day just gone by) and then we had a long and occasionally rowdy conversation about everything from Israel to Sven, bullying in care homes to bullying in schools and the validity of teens in the local area.
Home late, one work thing to sort out, did that, then read a little bit of Earth X and then today started with a brief, only sporadically interupted sleep in between.
Then, this morning: difficulty in starting up, which I should get past as there's loads to do and I'm hoping that writing this will flex the fingers and the mind enough to provide the jolt I need. Then recieved a copy of the Christian freeby newspaper: Challenge, which has an article about me, the books and my faith journey which tbh I occasionally forget I sent the details off to, because that was a CBC thing which seems forever ago. If anyone gets the chance to read it and whatever let me know what you think. Made me smile when I read it just now.
Anyhow: that is the definition of a 2 sushi day.
Currently listening to: Nick Rogers. Currently playing: No time but enjoyed a little bit more of Half Life 2 the other day. Current socks being worn: Mickey on dark grey.. They need darning though.