Okay now it’s about time to do a weekend in review.

Summary
Friday – quietish
Saturday – not so quiet
Sunday – really not at all quiet
Detail
Friday night I spent catching up with people I seem not to have had time to have conversations with recently. I’m not sure how but I seem to have fallen into a trap of snatched IM conversations of monosyllabic responses whilst working. Even email responses are not as lenghty as friends deserve. I never seem to have a chance anymore to do more than skim read and fire off a quick 1 or 2 line response.
Saturday was a more social affair. I met up with Dave and we had dinner before meeting Rob and finally another Dave and going into the Stag in Victoria for the 5th Birthday of Sports and Shorts. I spent the evening as ‘Arse Traffic Control’ which in my day was called pimp. Making sure my friends did not get off with the first person they spoke to. I also quite liked the look of this guy but then I was on heat! Much alcohol later and avoiding the Boyz camera’s Dave, Dave and Rob ended up back at mine for facsimile Cosmopolitans. I was way too drunk to worry about the lack of limes or ice.
I was supposed to be going out Sunday – thankfully it was postponed until Wednesday night. I was not in a fit state the amount I had to drink on Saturday. Most of Sunday was spent recovering from the night before and I was not impressed that the boys had bounced back before I had.
I saw numerous trailers for not another teen movie and have added it to my hitlist of films to see in the near future.

ANF

ANF in trouble again
I need to do an update of the quiet weekend I had and some other links people sent but I am VERY busy at the moment so it will have to wait.

Thanks to Dave for the link though

frustration

I watched a film this evening which seemed to touch every emotion in me. Defying Gravity was frustrating, sweet, funny, annoying, cringeworthy, and sexy. I t made me much more horny than any porno film could. The fact that it reminded me so much of when I was coming out was kind of scary.
I remembered vividly on my way home U2, With or without you. It was my theme for 1987 and it was when I had finally accepted I was never going to be like all my other friends.
I knew well before that, that I was different but 1987 was the first time I accepted that although I was different I was also not going to lie and try to be something I wasn’t.
If you haven’t seen defying gravity I recommend it. Although very cheesy, and painful at times, the emotional reminders of your youth whether you are straight or gay will be worth it.
Sexy leads and never quite shown or mentioned love lives left me horny to the point of being frisky. Spence and Glenn had to contend with ‘Frisky Iain’ this evening.

I also admitted to myself this evening why I had been in such a miserable mood these past few weeks and especially today. I had been putting it off but it was inevitable really. I am so doing the escapism thing with films at the moment.

On the gossip front today I discovered that Blogger E had managed to have his wicked way with a certain young secret santa. So that’s a whole new blogabet quiz I reckon!

panic room

Went to see Panic Room this evening with Glenn at the Odeon in Streatham. Was really good. I’ve been watching a lot of films recently and I’m not sure if it is escapism or not. Yesterday I was very hungover from a Saturday night of drunken debauchery. I had to be dragged for breakfast at the local greasy spoon and then back to veg out at Spence and Glenn’s.
We watched Personal Services and followed that with Blade. Then after I finally managed to get up enough energy to get off the sofa and make my way to my own home I watched Four Weddiings and a Funeral.

I’ve also been having a fun time getting to know new people over the weekend. Unusual for me to widen my circle of friends so much in one weekend.
Admittedly they were all Spence’s friends I met, well witht he exception of Carole & Paul that is! Bren lives right around the corner from me and was the first person to welcome me to the world that is out in the UK when I signed up in February last year. I met him a couple of weeks ago but Friday was the first time I really chatted to him properly. Nice.

Anyway I am rambling now cos I am tired and ready for bed.

Ticket Touts

If there had been ticket touts at Clapham Junction yesterday and today they would have made a fortune. I have never seen so many ticket inspectors in one place at a time in my life. I thought it was a convention at first. They were stopping everyone and cheking tickets on the way from the platforms and then again on the way to the platforms. This left a number of people on the walkway over the station queueing to buy a ticket at makeshift ticket offices.
I cannot believe so many people travel without a ticket. I always thought it was propaganda by the rail companies when they said they lost millions a week in revenue from fare dodgers. Now I can well believe it.
There was even an inspector on our service from Clapham to Olympia just in case you had managed to evade them at the station.
Pat and I decided they must be on some sort of commision they were that zealous. No basic salary but they get to keep half the fines they take or something.

Crusaid Walk for Life 2002

Okay folks for those of you wishing to come along on the day and walk you need to go register at walkforlife.co.uk. For those of you who just want to sponsor someone you can do so easily on the web here.
Anyone live on or near the south bank want to offer breakfast?
link [https://notetoself.co.uk/crusaid]

compare & contrast

My life sounds very sordid when discussed out loud 🙁
I thought it was normal until I start to compare with other people!