May 1, 2006

Tag: back to the real world

Truth be told: this weekend was awesome.

Saturday morning I got up early and went for a wander. Managed to enter & exit Real Groovy without spending a god damned penny. However five minutes down the road at Ferrett, I found a book of letters of H.P. Lovecraft, celeverly edited to form a kind of autobiography. *joy*

That afternoon I went to meet someone for coffee who I'd been wanting to get to know better after about, oo, ten minutes of conversation several weeks earlier. I was thinking "an hour, maybe two." EIGHT hours, four coffees, a pizza, two bowls of soup, a Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean comic, a bit of walking, and lots of truly awesome conversation later... I decide we don't completely hate each other. Probably.

Somehow my mind goes straight from "I'm tired and I wanna go to bed" to "I got to get to Island Bay RIGHT NOW for drinking!" and magically I am transported to Adrian & Jo's leaving party, where I have a swell time until my body says "Go home immediately, geek boy." So I do.

The next day brings NZ comics (choice) and Sione's Wedding (neither as appalling as I feared nor as hilarious as I hoped) and Cobb & co (not a patch on when I was a kid) and the sleep of the happy man with much to look forward to.

Today I am struck by the realisation that my capable and awesome assistant really has left. Shit.

Posted by pearce at May 1, 2006 5:07 PM
Comments

I been sacked. He scared of me. Heh.

Posted by: Joey at May 1, 2006 5:11 PM

Out of curiosity, did the 8 hours end in anti-climax?

Posted by: cal at May 2, 2006 12:25 AM

A woman (I'm assuming it was a woman) who likes Neil Gaiman? That's a keeper, man.

Cheers

Posted by: Martin at May 2, 2006 6:01 AM

Angies great!

Pearce is great!

To of my favorite people :-)

Posted by: Scott at May 2, 2006 9:58 AM

Cobb & Co?

Freak.

Posted by: morgue at May 2, 2006 10:34 AM

He's from the Valley leave him alone. Hmm, hang on a minute...

Hey Scott *waves* :)

Posted by: Timb at May 2, 2006 11:17 AM

Martin: indeed! She also likes The Neptunes, Firefly, Alan Moore, and Fight Club.

Cal: neither anti-climax nor (ahem) climax. I'll tell all when you meet me for lunch.

Morgue: hey, I was with my mum and that's where she wanted to go!

Tim: I come from down the Valley, where mister when you're young, they bring you up to do like your daddy done...

Posted by: Pearce at May 2, 2006 2:44 PM

lunch sounds good but not this week and not next week. Week after that?

Posted by: cal at May 3, 2006 12:24 AM

Man, you busy! Week after next sounds good.

Posted by: Pearce at May 3, 2006 8:16 AM