the buzz

still running around over here. my next visitor should be arriving in about 40 minutes - jay, my sister's friend from college, who i've never met, you may recall my mentioning - so i shall cram in the requisite update before i go wash my dishes and make my bed and all of that proper hostessy stuff.
in the past few days i have done some crazy clubbing/dancing which was great fun, and i think may have solidified a co-ed group of people that i can consistently go out clubbing with as a group, which is something i was particularly desiring amongst my many scattered individual relationships. these are my spanish, saudi & greek friends; they are quite fun, very stylish and international, and apparently deem me worthy enough to join their ranks, which is nice.
i also saw harry potter last night, and i can't say i'm terribly invested in the life and times of this fantasy-being/imaginative-heartthrob, despite the first book of the series having been written here at a lovely coffeehouse in edinburgh, but those movies i must say do exactly what movies are supposed to do. they transport you so willingly to an endlessly complex world full of humour, wonder, drama, surprise and even this time a great deal of tragedy. i actually found myself wincing out of painful empathy at one moment. i won't spoil it for anyone that does actually care, but this one graduated from the other plots/films in the appropriate way i think.

but for chrissake, enough about that, back to actual life. also in the past few days i bought some new glasses, a fancy but quite moderately priced wire pair made by versace, which makes me officially the owner of a pair of glasses made by vogue and a pair made by versace. i'm really not sure how i feel about that. but anyway i like them quite a bit, and if i had a camera i would show you. but i am working on that too.
oh and also i received a delightful package from home that contained, among other things, many substances through which the process of teeth-rotting can be expedited. hoo-hah, what more could a girl want.

my christmas plans are so all over the place right now and it is kind of overwhelming to think about. i hope something will work out. for a time i thought great friend pete backof (when i say things like "great friend" i think of apda debating rhetoric, silly i know) was going to spend new years here in edinburgh with me and then the two of us were going to go to paris and there probably meet up with great friend on side opp rachel duffie, but it turns out pete can't make it after all, which is really incredibly disappointing, because the whole thing sounded like a dream. so now i'm not sure if i can try to go to copenhagen to stay with my danish friend mandy at a different point, or if i can find a scottish friend to hang out with around here, or if i should still go to paris and meet rachel, assuming she comes, and if i will just sit in my flat and go to work all the time during the holidays. sheesh! i'm sure something will present itself though, because i seem to keep finding myself pleasantly surprised.

in other news, i finally busted out my winter coat. wintry temperatures only means the 40s here, but i can still see my breath and all. it's nice to feel like i am off to boarding school again in my study wool 7-dollar gray thrift-store coat.

well that's all i have time for at the moment. if i seriously took 48 straight hours just to write emails to people that i feel i owe them to or would like to write to, i would still not exhaust my list of correspondents, i mean that. but some days in the near future, i will continue to chip away. for now, it's time to open my hearth, as they say, but i should probably vacuum it first.

yours-