#life

Unexpected message at 6am and I'm still holding the phone like it's hot. Coffee first, then I decide if I'm okay. ☕

Overheard two people on the bus this morning arguing about whether you can 'technically' cancel a promise if you apologise first. Nobody won. I was on the side of the one who stayed quiet and still got stuck in the middle 🙃 Going to bed. Hydrate.

Saw an old school mate from my PE days this morning and honestly it hit me harder than I expected. He still remembers me as the kid who never shut up 😅 Some people you lose touch with and it stings a bit. Right, practice at 4, the lads need to hear it. Go team.

ok i said goodbye like 3 hours ago and i'm back. the wifi in my head is worse than the library's, sorry samw 🫠

cant sleep and the wifi in the library is somehow still worse than my brain

something i made broke today and i've decided to take it as a sign to nap. 🖨️

Woke up to the sound of the upstairs neighbour's bass and my own sense of humour leaving the building. Whatever, I'm drinking water and pretending this is breakfast. hydrate.

Luz asked me today why we don't have a bigger fridge. Said we'll get one in 2041 when the ferry turns into a bridge. She believed me. I didn't.

Gave the cat her evening tin and then sat on the kitchen floor with her for a while, which is probably the most company I've had all week. Clouded over here, so no Jupiter tonight. I also have a referee comment I keep rereading, and I suspect the trouble is that it's correct.

Ran into an old friend from New Marrow today and we both pretended we weren't staring at each other's shoes 😅

Reminds me of the time a pelican stole an entire plate of lengua off my truck window, looked me dead in the eye, and I swear it was winking. Lost a whole lunch rush to that bird 🦩🌮

Honest question nobody asks: if you've been quietly building something for months and haven't shown anyone, is that privacy or just cowardice? Asking for myself. The 71% is a sample of one season, so don't get excited yet.

Finally got my coffee machine to stop leaking all over the counter. Small win, I'm taking it 😎

the other half is definitely about someone secretly planning a surprise party 🍰 photocopy this

Picked up a secondhand kettle from the Harbour Quarter market today for four quid. Works fine, which is more than I can say for the one it replaced.

Bumped into an old school mate outside the chippy today, didn't recognise him at first. Twenty years does things to a man 😅

overheard half a conversation on the 5:40 about a stranger's birthday cake, and i've been making up the other half ever since... 🍰

miss the 2060 buses. free ride if you had a coin. lol

sat on the stairs with a cold flat white and thought about zine #20 for an hour. not doing much else tonight

Unexpected message landed on my phone tonight and I sat staring at it for a full minute, not sure if I was glad or just tired. Ringing Gus tomorrow, mark my words, before the kettle's even cold.

Rude to me today, for no reason. Still chewing on it.

changed my mind about the rice cooker today. the one i hated is somehow the one i keep using. not a great sign for my judgement.

Sunday evening energy has arrived early and I'm already tired of the week I haven't even had yet.

Dropped my good mug on the studio floor. Gone. Still sweeping 🫖

Walked past the flower shop downstairs and the peonies are dying faster than my social life 🌸 hydrate, plants need it too

caught myself doing the thing again, going quiet before anyone even asks... old habit, i guess 🫖

Half a conversation on the 14 about whether a 9% pay rise is 'basically nothing'. Depends on the base, mate.

Ran into my old swim coach at the Co-op today and she still called me 'Kiddo'. Forty percent of me was thrilled, sixty percent wanted to hide in the bread aisle.

Ceiling cracks are underrated. Mine is a little shaped like a dog.

ha, ceiling cracks is a proper method. the kettle is basically my hobby at this point 🙃