Hello from Heathrow! Had a very productive work week - print deadline! Everything fell on to place beautifully an I'm now feeling very excited about the January show, hurrah! Had to wait till the last minute to drag the writin out of me tho, but it is done so all good!

Saw Stewart lee yesterday - love him! Very funny/smart/handsome tra laa, and he looks v like the first mistake of a boyfriend I had! Sigh! But a weird social evening...had half arranged drinks with a new person which fell thru, then odd bloke who was sitting in the same row as me didn't turn up till interval - we just don't really get on, although o really liked his friend! But yet again I am failing to make any friends beyond Jacek in the rubbish small town. N came to the rescue and carted to me so I wasn't on my Todd, but how pathetic I am! Am making more good pals far away tho, just wish they were closer tho! Ah well, I officially give up. It is now a place I sleep and I have fun elsewhere! On Saturday I had an OU tutorial and after Si came up to meet me in Cambridge, lovely, an we dropped in to say hello to R working in her shop (she's aces!) and then lunch at rainbow (gf lasagne!) then tea and cakes with Helen & Col in Ely (gf lemon drizzle cake!) (and v funny story about racism from Nic), then hellos to Em in Newton to collec word games to play at my mumra's birthday supper with ma, sister, rob, Sarah, si and Stewart. Played games and laughed enormously! Also, cruicially, I got to hang out with my beautiful cat! Oh the lovely furry fellow!

That's it for notable stuff...enjoying true blood and Miranda at the moment, and missing juan...but I am flying to Portugal now after a hideous few hours trying to sleep on the airport benches, so byeeee!

And I'm awake at 2:27. Why? Because I bought a beautiful electric blanket and just realised that I hadn't turned it off properly and after a couple of hours of delicious sleep, nearly roasted myself and so here I am awake. Also i'm a bit wound up as I have a catalogue essay due and 2 short texts to finish for a leaflet, and my body is a little confuseled as to when is sleep time. So hello.

I had my first day back at work and was an efficiant curating queen! Lots done incl finally finding a bookbinder to give workshops as part of a next year project. Yuss. And I saw the local paper for local people that had a full page dedicated to photos of the drawing event I ran the other week. Hurrah. All cheesy local paper stylee - families holding their brushes up and waving to the camera, but heck, it's all coverage. Also today I cut my hair off - I won a raffel last month and so my cut and blow dry at fancy salon (T&G) became a reality and I have shortish hair again, feels so so much better! Met Jacek for supper as well today and then went back to work to wrangle with a poster that looks interminably dull, but basically does the job...hmmm...will prob completely change it on Friday...too too drab. Had a really nice phone chat with Suzie too, we based in my 96% assignment glory! Level 2 aswell! Oh beaming!

Right, what's going to happen now? Sleep or writing? Wouldn't it be nice if I could do both?

Juan. Noone has seen you since Sunday. Please please come home. Posters are ready to be put up, but fly-posting is illegal round here, but hopefully I'll not be told off. Ummm. Hopefully Juan reads the internet and he'll realise he's been gone a while and pop back to say hi.

Yesterday I had a busy time at work - designed the invite for the next show, one of Liz', mine kick off again in Jan and then I went over to W for a studio visit. Was brills. And even better L and I went for a much needed catchup drink after work, so supernice to have her as a friend and curatorial colleague. Then home, hunt for Juan, bed and watching of Glamour's Golden Age - I am loving the BBC 4 documentaries! Synth Britannia was aces and I've got Krautrock to watch too.

Today was London and I rocked some meetings hard! Some super projects coming up! Plus lunch with Si, yum. tonight I had a brilliant skype with Virga back in LT but mostly I worried about Juan cat and went for a walk with torch in the fields calling for him and getting tangled in brambles. Ouch. Now I really really have to get my head down and set to my OU assignment...Politics, hello!

I just did something most uncharacteristic. I sent a grumpy text message to Si. He accidentally hurt my feelings, i texted...uffff...I think it was the sugar crash talking. Today has been utterly rubbish. Bah. Humbug. But I'll not dwell. Will I?? No. Maybe. So first off I had invited folks for tea and cakes and just after I got home after carrying 3 heavy bags of shopping ready to make 3 different types of cake, folks cancelled. Boo. For very good reasons (one's son had swine flu, another's husband's nose exploded post sinus op) but I felt very very sad and sorry for myself. Theeen our wifi stopped working. Theeeen my tax status was confusing...turns out I was given the wrong advice in 2005. Grrrr. Theeeen the shelf I fixed hasn't worked. And finally, Juan is AWOL again. Oh that little guy, where are yooou? He's only been gone for one night tho so I'm not worried, just would like to hang out with my cat. I am supercool!

This weekend was superb. I escaped. On Friday night I hopped on all of the trains up to Manchester to be met by Suzie and Jenny. We went to a new Tiki bar and the chap invented a non alocoholic cocktail for me, it was yum! Banana syrup, and I've no idea what else! Home and Suzie and I talked till 2. Saturday was fantastiche! We relaxed and chatted, we watched Art Attack and then in the afternoon bought the things so in the evening we made the art attack things! Neil Buchannan would have been proud! Except the quality of our labour would have been impressive for the targetted demographic of Art Attack, but we're 30. Tee hee. We made plaster cast photo frames! One was in a pumpkin shape, another cat head shape and two nearly squares. Rubbish but very very enjoyable!

We went to Chorleton in the afternoon for a pub lunch (ham and eggs, chips and salad) and look at the shops. Then in the craft shop we were very amused by the nice shop boy - he was very chatty and I confessed we'd watched Art Attack. He confessed to drinking baileys all afternoon. When we went back in later for more orange paint he was gone...hopefully for a lie down!

Sunday was again supernice - very lazy morning and then to the Cornerhouse to see New COntemporaries. I knew 2 people in the show, very proud of them. OVerall a very underwhelming show. Sigh. Followed by really nice and cheap sushi then crafting social in Urbis. We made applique things! Hurrah! Such a nice environment, about 10 of us round the table all beavering away with our felt, bondaweb and embroidery. I couldn't help but bussman's holiday tho...asked the coordinator about how it was funded...and they managed to keep it so cheap (£2.50) because the girl leading it wanted the experience so she could do things lke that more so didn't charge for her time. Very nice for the institution! I need to find folks like that!! Then I can reduce costs...but then it could be seen as a bit exploity...but I think it's just a very nice win win...anyhow, J and I had a tip top afternoon and I now have a felt owl on a tote bag! Hurrah!

Finished just in time to get to the train, or rather 4 trains home, and running between platforms as the trains are rubbish! Just made every connection, squished standing up for a stint but managed seats for the rest. Ugh. Home, no cat, sleep.

Oh Juan, do come along home! He might be reading this...he's very advanced and I'm convinced he not only evolved thumbs but has snafled his way to the internet...

Too tired for proper entry, but to summarise: kickboxing, meh, and I kept thinking "but wouldn't it be better if we all just talked it through"; work - having big conversations with my boss, changes ahead, all good...I think...; brilliant skype with Jantine, a snood, a uke and screens; tokbox trial for work good, me make screen jokes to find half giggle and half art people significantly without a sense of humour (no, they can't have one that's different, they either have mine or none); juan's been fighting some more but also now has pink collar; watched Question Time and Twitter...so tense!

Brilliant evening. I started up a sort of peer critique night for artists and had the 2nd one of this setup tonight...and it went superwell! I'm so pleased! It's what here has been crying out for and I am very glad to see that it is working. I get the artists to present their work and a work in progress in 10 mins, each in the group (max 5), then a little break, then we all sit and discuss everyone's work all together. It gets them to improve their presentation skills and gives them insight to what other folks're doing which as this part of the UK is so spread out it totally suits. THe discussions go really nicely too. I play the role of a comfort-setting tutor without talking too much. I really enjoy being a tutor and this is nice because here I encourage everyone to chip in, and it's a nicely even discussion that happens with no domineering egos (unless it's mine and I havn't noticed!) A skill I have is to tell people that whatever it is they are doing could be better without them getting offended, and I seem to be good at setting a nice open environment where we can say negative things about each others' work but through asking sensible questions - no attacks, but asking rather - what is it that is actually the point of interest, and when something negates that no being afraid to flag. Everyone left very happy and excited...hurrah! Perhaps I'll try to run some more Work in Prog sessions in other places...it seems to really be a winner.

Today was crazy busy work day! Only me in the office at times, and other just Richard. S was in and out, A was out at meetings all day and other S in but briefly. I was dashing between the gallery and the empty shop that we're using for art and education (well, educ at the mo as there is forever no money for actual art, bah) setting up the tutor and assistant. That also went really well. And as the leaflets only went out at the weekend (for lease-related reasons) R and I were taking bookings all over the place, hectic, no lunch and then an extra couple of hours in the evening...busy busy! No freelance land nor OU for me today, or excercise except walking. Am missing excercise, much get some, bleugh.

Yesterday Si and I slept in and then went out for a pub lunch (roast beef, no gravy or yorkshire pud, disappointing Eaton Mess)in the country after picking up sandpaper. Bit of a walk then home to fall sound asleep again waking just in time to rush Si to the train. Home and I tidied, hoovered, sanded and then pottered online as Juan slept in my wardrobe.

Si is here! I have a man falling asleep next to me as I type. We just got in from a date - supper and a movie (take out curry and Up) - so now home Si falls straight to sleep and I tinker on the internet. That is not a euphemism. Up was great but oh my what a rollercoaster of emotions. It's not often I sit in a room of strangers and cry along with them. Every one of us was crying on cue each time. Si and I blubbing away. It was 3D...I recon only so the glasses could hide our manly tears. Streaming down my cheeks at some points. Oh. PRetty good 3D too. I'm in rubbish Small Town (now to be known as RST) as I was at work today. I started at 10 as I had to catch up with sleep and began with dropping leaflets for nearly 3 hours - we're trying a targetted marketing strategy, but as it's all last minute (we were offered a grant a month ago for events to happen before the end of Oct! Rush rush rush) we have all been leaflet dropping, director n'all. This afternoon I managed to find someone (very very eager new intern) to do the rest (for meagre pay, we actually have budget to pay for once). Then back to the gallery, and did tasks incl measuring walls for new lighting strips, sorting other bits and pieces and loaded InDesign onto the work laptop as Sam WILL learn how to use it. Right now he does posters in the most inefficient way in Photoshop, so no more of that, proper software for the job now. I'm forcing him, ha! We enjoyed playing Zoey Dachanelle's band in the Gallery too.

Yesterday was much more eventful (Leon chicken lunch w lemonade still and lemon/ginger gf cake) in london town. It was the other art fair day, but I began with a breakfast at the place next to the National Theatre. It was superlovely to see the artist who greeted me wish a superfond "You kept your promise!" it was lovely, esp as I am in awe of him and usually get a bit tongue tied! Very nice to see other folks too. I got a confidence knock tho when I saw my old tutor who said "I hear you're having a tough time" *thump* ah well, joys of being underfunded and fighting the conservative attitudes. Next stop morning drink with my cousin over from Oz - very nice to see her - then a brilliant lunch with J. Soothing and very fun. So good to meet her. She's doing brilliantly, hurrah, and we're ging to do some stuff together, again hurrah. She also managed to get me into the fair for free, yeah! It was a nice fair, although the work wasn't the greatest. I bumped into the art council folks from my region and joined them for a while and met some gallery flks doing some great projects, so I'll get some on board for the January show.

And then, hum, well sometimes I shouldn't say yes. On the way into see a panel discussion with Rai the guy who was supposed to chair it asked me if as a curatorial project we could swap places, and so instead of the sitting in the audience I was suddenly chairing. Crumbs. It was kinda agony - and the audience had no questions at any time, ouch. V and I did some nice moments where I said "I would like to ask myself some questions" and he would anser. At another point his headphnes stopped working so as he was having them replaced I said "Oh, I can't hear" tapping mine, and then "ah yes, better" which got a very nice laugh...only I wasn't really there for laughs but to have an informed panel discussion. V was extremely complimentary after, Rai less so. Afterwards I was shaking and felt awful but bumped into Ali and made her come and have a comforting cup of tea. Eventually I stopped shaking and found myself to have an exhibitor's pass as V, silly. Better to regret things you have done than not? Hum. Post Ali I dashed to meet Si and Dom in teh Phoenix for a bit and then suppered on the last train to RST. I'm still slightly reeling, but figure, meh, fun to try things and to learn learn learn. Note to self - never talk in public about something I don't actually know about, unless it is in a clearly set out improv sitch! It reminded me how much I'd like to do some radio tho...ahhh...maybe one day...

In London town for the art fairs. Ate lunch at 10am on train, too peckish! First stop F meeting tom with his delicious free tickets! Lecture full so we wandered seeing a lot of ok but slightly boring art. Some fantastic pIeces, but not so much. We sat and had a big talk about arts marketing...I am actually quite on top of the new medias/ soc networks but not necc using them the neatest way, but am learning. Then stand-seeing and lots of airkissing. Particularly nice to see folks I have not seen for a few years! Got told by quite a few people that I look exactly the same as ever...hmmmm...I am gradually getting the wrinkles and a bit fatter, then a bit thinner, then a bit fatter again...no major change I suppose. Very nice to see Mexican and portugese pals. Then time to meet vi, except I missed the film start time as I got a work call and ha to sort staffing for next week. That left me in the happy position to just have to sit and have a rest / big email catchup until the film was finished. Next stop sushi sitting on trafalgar sq looking at big ben and catching up with vi, followed by a walk through Chinatown / soho to the big opening of Rai's project. Now that was great! Good art and fantastic company. My Romanian curator friend M was there too - we always have very fun conversations, I have a lot of time for him! And then A, a brusque polish artist ( and my driend's ex-girlfriend) whom I've not seen for 4 years came buzzing over. She once said to me in the past "I have to stoptalking to you now, I must network"...terrifying. There was some magnificent peacockery and bristling betweeen A and M, ups, and little neutral me in the mddle. After that rai nabbed all of us and we went for a big supper nearby with all the Lithuanians and associates! Povi was teasing me about my pink mirrored unicorn necklace and I his cartoon glasses! Vale tessa rai and I swapping Darius stories, a girl Lima who was also at the 3.5 hr long Arturas concert (neither f us went to the followup in fear of being trapped in experimental music for that duration again). Oh it was superlovely. Si joined us and maxi an editor and some others. That is what is superb about the art world. We were central line possee home and then gorgeous sleep.

Why does my boyfriend set his alarm at 7am if he has no intention of getting out of bed until 7:50???

Ups, clearly out of the habit, failed to journal yesterday. Ah well, will try harder.

Yesterday I began with porridge and banana but great difficulty getting out of bed. Then I couldn't find my cashcard so was half an hour late for word, drat. Didn't matter, I ended up working till 7. I got there and ooh my colleagues that were in were grumpy fellows, I told them off for grumpiness which kinda worked until the next bee entered. WE got our hands on the keys for an empty shop we're working with - annoyingly there is no budget for actual art to happen in it, so we're starting with an art education fest. The space is fantastic - I want it to be the actual gallery! We carried over lots of chairs and tables - new sulky colleague seemed yesterday to be horrified with the thought that we would be the ones takingthe furniture over...but how else did she expect it to happen? Pixies? The two grumpy older colleagues took 1 table between them at a time so I was lugging 3-4 chairs each trip. I don't really enjoy being the only person with any strength but I don't mind carrying more if it means they won't break, but Id rather we employed some more people who could carry heavy things.

I had to run to the railway station and hit Ipswich for a completely inspiring lecture about the future of the book at the university. Felt very excited and then wandered to see my friend who works at the gallery in town. I've been doing mini podcasts for work of everywhere I go so we did yet another with her. I do have colleagues who are my contemporaries, but we are really spread out across the region and too far to actually see each other very often alas. Wow I am bored in this Small Town! I missed my train back so read the whole of the art journals I'd packed and once back I updated our websites and did another teeny podcast with all of the info...so I hope some people actually come to these workshops and tasters we've set up. Considering we were told about the grant the day before my holiday in mid September and only got the keys yesterday and it starts on Monday...urg...

Home last night and a quiet one - watched Design for Life, had a bath and Juan and I curled up for some quality sleep. Love that cat! Design For Life...oh my word the studends are dreadful! I really want to have a word with Mr S to tell him that we really do have some incredible tallent in this country, just not them. Awful!

Today it's the big art fair in the big city. It'll be good to go, but it's so air kissy mwah I'm not really in the vibe. Sure it'll come when I'm there. It's all about money, and that leads me to feel deeply uncomfortable, but Virga and Valentinas will be there, and I'm going with Tom so I have my possee. If I was playing the art world right I would have got myself into the professional preview, but as it's the other art fair and a freelance meeting tomorrow I couldn't really spend that long there so don't mind at all missing it.

And with that, time to pack and work out which shade of black I'll wear...

Hmmmmmmmmmm...was struck by a pang on LJ memory. I want to contact one of my LJ friends and so I've logged in, but also I've been up to things recently that I don't want to forget. I've been twittering away, but it isn't the same (athough there is possibly the same level of cat coverage!) I kept a written diary on my last trip away, but I will prob loose that sooner or later...so here I am! Just a few lines each day, that's the plan!

Rather than an epic catchup of 6 months, here are some highlights!
1. Last week saw the Pixies at Brixton Academy! Woooo! Esp good as saw them with puddleduck and Gail, friends from high school. The demographic were us, and a fair bit older too, he ha, I've reached that stage of life!
2. Just heard on Adam & Joe, popropriations for a cup of tea, a Truman (Capote!!!!) Oh ho ho yeah.
3. The art funding fellows have not only appoved a proposal I sent, they want to give me more pennies!
4. I told my boss I was bored here, so now she's trying to find ways to keep me.
5. I went on holiday/freelance work trip that was so amazing I got the post-trip blues for a long tme.
6. I made some more friends in stupid Small Town and enjoyed being the rebels at the charity quiz with an excess of people including...lesbians...in a small town, oh my, what a fuss we caused!
7. I met my OU tutor group incl frightening people who have Masters already.
8. I found a new sport programme of circuits and the humiliation of finding it difficult to jump over a hoop is driving me to fitness
9. Juan and Toby are finally getting along and Juan comes to sleep with me every night again now, ahhhhhh.
10. Am loving my best friends more and more, and having a strange time with the man.

Today was a work day incl me working the press mojo - I've become rather good at manovering the press machine and I've worked with national tv, and local papers/radio. I also had to race to the printing house, ahhh, the adrenaline! Sorted a load of workshops and posters, leaders and helpers and had some meetings shift on me incl one with a bit of an art person hero who is having lunch with me and I'm going to pick her brains to basically get some careers advice - am I wasting my time here in Small Town (even tho I am making an impact, I'm bored bored bored) so hope she'll give me some perspective. I have sort of made up my mind to head abroad again next academic year, maybe PhD, maybe research, perhaps just go freelance...ooooh don't know. Home, small jog, supper and now I have a kitten purring with his gollum-like head on my forearm (Juan is out being a man-cat, his purring will be later as we are still very much in love) and I'm going to get a whole bout of much-needed work done: a big UK project and a big Serbia project, yahay! All have to have a supersnappy turnaround...one day I'll be given ample notice!

Suddenly realised I didn't want the journal to default an untimeley death...and also wondered what I got up to on 08/08/08 so a brief hello! And perhaps my quiet is over...

back in blighty after a strange day...finishing with getting stuck and missing my connection in Ipswich - it was hit by lightening so I wasn't too annoyed...biblical! Nice bus replacement service tooke me to my door!

Now, where are my keys?

Today's entry begins with a birthday whoop for the Puddleduck! I only just finished work, but it's still 14th in the UK so it counts! I just rang her thinking I would just catch the biffday for some greetings...instead got a sleeping Gareth - sorry! Hope you had a splendid day tho and superfun last night. Am utter gutted to miss everything.

Today was the opening of the exhibition - in some ways it went really well. The show looks great and teh works are really fantastic. I'm thrilled with that side of things. Sadly tho not as many people came to the opening as I had hoped, enough did, but I was hoping it would be heaving. One of teh performances went really well, the other was a bit damp. Overall tho, very very pleased. Straight after I had to have supper with some artists incl one whose work was foisted at me, and I rather turned into tutor mode and badgered him as the why this why that...his work was unsatisfactory but could be good, and I felt compelled to tell him, he seemed really keen to hear my opinions, this is dangerous! I'll become dreadful if I really do think I am right all of the time! I keep asking for feedback and asking for it to be negative, but folks are so polite they won't say bad things...how am I going to learn unless I get the feedback that challenges me. Maybe the shows are perfect! But they're not, I can see the faults, I just really want to hear other's perspectives so I am not locked into my own...ra ra ra...

OK, long long day, and week, and combined with terrible sleep last night...well, I'm off to bed. Goodnight Serbia.

Night before the exhibition opens. As I am very pleased wiht the invite and also the lineup from the prev exhib, I have been busy finally sorting out most of my mailing lists and getting the word out. THat means I found a cafe that has wifi and had the slowest apple juice in the world...and a banana split. Yum!

I am tired and a bit frazzled. Still quite a lot to do tomorrow but it's basically fine - there is time. Just hope people will come. The press release went out with a mistake on it becuase the translation was supposed to come by my eyes before it went out...and didn't...oh well, it's not too big a deal. I spent the majority of today working on the poster and faffing with print stuff as well as directing where the lighting and pieces will go. The fax maching for one of the performances looks completely incongruous - it's huge! And the poster is tiny. Keeps making me laugh, a lot, almost meniacly! I am amazed that the show is a good 'un considering the budget (600 Euro - of which a chunk has to move a piece that we aren't even showing). Testament to how nice and supportive the artists all are! Frustratingly tho we got an extra 450 Euro for one of the artists...but on Friday at 5pm...too late to fly her over! So so annoying! And we couldn't use the money for anything other than flights, so we had to turn it down! Noooooo! Even 48 hours earlier and we could have arranged the flights and the performance. Sigh. Oh well, we have a very suitable solution, but it would have been so much fun to have Ja here.

RIght, just paid my bill so off to sleep. Oh, and my face has been bitted 8 times by a mosquito so I have nasty lumps incl my nose that now resembles an old drunk man's bulbous nose. And there are random drips from the buildings here. And I like Serbia, but ufff the heat is too much!

Quick entry as am shattered tired. Just back from a bar filled with Serbian actors/filmmakers/artists and more...as ever, I had no idea who any of them were, tee hee. But unlike the Lithuanian fashionista set, these fellows were friendly and nice! I was out with the lesbians who were telling me about the gay clubs, seems to be a better situation than LT, as in, there are some. Yesterday and today was a big road trip all along the Danube going south with Romania and it's EU roads taunting us from the other side of teh water. Beautiful! But so drowsy...and am humbled by how generous my hosts are, and their friends. We stayed in a holiday cottage for free with incredible views across the valley with spire of moved-church and river, big bbq, oh, and had chops for breakfast! Yum! Also we climbed up a castle and saw a massive egg and then a face carved into the rock face of RO. And bumped into 2 sets of cyclists who'd stayed at my hostel! Right, crashing, zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

OK, I remember why I keep this LJ...to record the things that I actually do with my time. And it's just got all exciting again and I don't want to loose it all into the foggy mess of my memory.

I'm in Serbia and had a most wonderful day. I sorted out some crucial things for the exhibition that is opening on Sunday, such as, y'know, sort out which pieces to actually have in the show, and I had some remarkable meetings. The upshot of one with a very wealthy lady is that I am now on the board of a new space...I will be advising them on their artistic programme and general direction, inputting how I think things should be shaped! Wow! This whole career lark is really working out. I also had a lovely swim in a massive artificial lake, ox bow, but no bow, closed off segment of river and a walk with my hosts. They are so incredibly generous towards me I am humbled. M&M are sweet and giving and I feel clumsy about it all. Heck, if I get them over to Blighty it's fish and chips on me.

Last week I was frantic at work getting things sorted before coming away. Also I had my final OU assignment. I have come to the glum descision that I both cannot afford the money nor the time for the next OU course I wanted to do. I am really sad about it. I love the learning so so much but it's more than 600 GBP and I really have no money to my name these days. The uk is so expensive that my wages mean nothing. I'm really quite down about it...why have I chosen a profession where I continue to struggle financially, where my work is not valued despite having earned an international reputation and building some good things. Bah bah bah.

Venice was great, but not as much fun as last time. Still, it was superb to see so much work and I did some very good and very fun hob nobbing esp with Hinrich who is now on the Swiss board of the pavilion! Lotte was lovely and my lifeline in absence of Virga and Julija. I saw a lot of mediochrity, but some really touching pavillions on the final day.

Now back in Belgrade where I always have a good time. I've been having a fairly low key time as I need to recoup from Venice and the being up till 3am finishing my final assignment before I flew. I have had the great pleasure of having time to read fiction - I finished Casino Royale, and now am into Brideshead Revisited. Wonderful!

And now, I will try to sleep - lots to do in the morning and then we're off for the night to the mountains and the Danube. Road Trip!

IN Belgrade and exhilarated, even if I have had my exhibition budget cut by 33%

Hello from Venice! Still not sure about keeping up my LJ, but I wanted to record I was here! Am exhausted so off to have a snack and a little rest...

Am considering stopping my LJ. Not sure. Hmmmm. Perhaps will give it a holiday and see how I feel about it a bit later. Or maybe it's just that I don't want to record this piece of my life?

Oooh I managed to catch the M&S penny bazaar today! I now have a teatowel,a mug, a can of cloudy lemonade, coconut mushrooms and a frisbee! 5p! Except I gave £1 as it was for the hospital wing. I love the teatowel!

Also today I got fed up with old women being horrible to me for no reason. Sigh. Really, for no discernable reason. I got a lot done at work, talked through some stuff with my boss, pushed foreward some more plans, and didn't manage to do some other things, manana. And this evening choir, lovely! And my sister is back from honeymoon. Super to speak to her!

Yesterday was busy. I was interviewing forever and then running and catching Irish artists and works. Times, they are usy. Had nice chat to Janice and then out with Jacek to the pub. Should have been working on freelance in the evening, but would have popped!

Right, brushing teeth, iPlayer and sleep as tomorrow is choc full with work, freelance work, teaching and study!

And did I ever mention how much I love my cat? He's extra chatty and affectionate these days. And right now dozing with his head against my shin. Ahhhh.