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[devi]

I HAVE INTERNET AT HOME AGAIN!!!

It's been five weeks of coffee taxes for "free" wifi which doesn't work two times out of three and you can't make a fuss, because after all it's free, even though you have twelve desperately important emails to send RIGHT NOW and your lunch break is about to end. Five weeks of trailing round town with my laptop like an internet bag lady. Five weeks when I've hardly got to read any LJ at all. Paradoxically, it's probably made me faster at responding to emails because I know I have to do it on the spot; when I think I can do it any time, I stick my head in the sand and don't reply for a week. Hopefully the new habits will stick.

But oh my god. You have no idea how good it feels to be online AT MY DESK with MY OWN MUSIC ON, and to know I can stay in tonight and catch up on all my fringe-mail, and not have to worry that the bar staff are looking at me funny because I've been nursing a half for three hours, or that I have too many bits of paper on the table. I can go to the bathroom without having to pack up all my bits of tech and bring them with me in case they get nicked, hoping someone won't steal my seat (the only one near a power socket) while I'm gone. I can get up and have a cup of tea for free whenever I want to. Ahhhhh.

In fact I might just do that now.

How are you doing?

Comments

Yay for internet - congrats!

[jinty]

I have got my two photos framed and am working up to replying to your questions properly - but the mounting bit is aced, at least. Yay for creativeness and organization!

[lanfykins.livejournal.com]

I'm absolutely knackered, but otherwise fine.

Incidentally, I've just been at glittertigger and zandev's place and finally seen some of your artwork in real life, rather than internetly :)

Would it by any chance be possible for me to wander vaguely in your direction at some point for perusal of whatever you currently have with a view to offering you filthy lucre in exchange for depriving you of some of it?

[katstevens.livejournal.com]

I've come to the realisation that I *have* actually been ill for the last three days and haven't been imagining it at all. Doing an impromptu pub crawl yesterday probably hasn't helped this.

In general, I am desperately trying to acquire some superior web design skillX0r and experience (so I can get a new job doing same) whilst battling the forces of entropy and Remaining Cheerful. It's proving tricky.

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty good - had a very pleasant weekend with good company and some hopefully exciting developments.

Glad to hear you are back in the world - I am still failing on a regular basis to make it to Oxford, but hope to after I get back from Scotland (late April / early may) if not before.

[braisedbywolves.livejournal.com]

Wandering around Dublin, thinking about Dublin.

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Still on the comedown from Eastercon in general, and in particular an hour-long conversation with China Miéville this morning about gaming.

[juggzy.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!

[bateleur.livejournal.com]

You have no idea how good it feels to be online AT MY DESK with MY OWN MUSIC ON

Yes. Yes I do. CONGRATULATIONS! :-D

[ultraruby.livejournal.com]

Yaaaay! You are back!

I'm doing fine - sleepy and happy and calm.

[libellum.livejournal.com]

I HAVE INTERNET AT HOME AGAIN!!!
Did you steal mine?

:,( *emo tear*

I just got your email about posting the painting right now! I will try and post it today, but life is very complicated right now. What's the deadline?

[addedentry.livejournal.com]

Hasn't stopped you Twittering, though: fortunately.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

I had my first guitar lesson on Saturday, am jamming weekly with my work colleagues, and trying to write down the dozen or so song fragments that occur to me each day before they dissipate back into ideaspace for someone else to reap the benefit of.

He knows the crowds/ He knows theire faces/ If not their names/ They come to him/ From far-off places/ Bringing scents/ Exotic spices/ He'll never taste/ He knows the crowds

He knows the crowds/ He looks for you/ You're never there/ And never will be/ One day you're through/ The next he'll miss you/ And find some crowds/ To scan their faces/ He knows the crowds

He knows the crowds/ They understand him/ They're looking too/ And always will be/ Someone has lost him/ And seeks out crowds/ All around him/ So many crowds/ He knows the crowds

That's one of today's. And I have Depeche Mode's similar artists on Last.fm right now. Lots of Covenant and VNV and such!

[therealjo.livejournal.com]

Welcome back!

I'm fine thank you, but less of the mental, bit more of the relaxed so all good.