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miramanga ([personal profile] miramanga) wrote2007-09-13 04:10 pm

There's danger on the edge of town

An update...

This morning I went to see Mr Harper, he told me my operation date has been moved to January...good, cos I was stressing about the Christmas workload and bad, cos my parents will be in Kenya from the 18th Jan onwards...le eek!

Also! No rubber bands! Le yay! I was terrified I'd be fitted with ortho bands on my braces to guide my teeth into a different bite - they ping off when you sing and stuff and I had them before when I was thirteen. They're a bad scene. So! Superhappy about that!

A visiting lady ortho from Newbury took impressions of my bite, top and bottom and front on...and from these Mr Harper will make a mouth wafer which will be used in the actual operation. Of course I made the usual "sticky stuff in my mouth" jokes. These are now expected of me. Standard!

I came back to London, dropped our keyboard flight case in a minicab to take it back to Matt Snowball, Emperor of Equipment Hire and walked through the gorgeous sunshine and back streets of West London to work.

You can tell I live in the West, the cafe under my apartment was full of media types on lunch, I could hear a flautist practising as I walked past a window, there were tour buses full of bandmembers blinking in the sunlight as they gingerly exited vehicles to sign in at K West, au pairs pushing three wheeled buggies. I really enjoy the shady leafy avenues I shuffle along. A spivvy guy on a mobile walked purposefully past me saying "...well if the band don't WRITE more songs, there IS no deal!"....The West is the best. Get here, and we'll do the rest!

The sunshine is glorious today. Indian summer.

[identity profile] rza4shza.livejournal.com 2007-09-13 04:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Is East London considered more bleak and ghetto, full of nu-ravers and West London more leafy and green and posh? It sort of sounds like East vs. West LA...

[identity profile] miramanga.livejournal.com 2007-09-13 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yea, it is kinda like that...but you know I'm all about Silverlake ;) xxx

[identity profile] rza4shza.livejournal.com 2007-09-13 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Effing Silverlake hipsters!

[identity profile] g0ldt00th.livejournal.com 2007-09-13 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I happen to think that Shepherds Bush (west) is really grotty, and on a par with Whitechapel (east) which is somewhere I don't like going. West London has a lot of posh areas like Knightsbridge and Notting Hill, but there's nothing to do in west London all the good clubs and bars are in the east or central. East London also has some beautiful parks (Victoria Park and London Fields, to name a couple) and some really nice markets and pubs and restaurants.

There are certainly different atmospheres in east and west, but I actually think they have more in common than they do in opposition.

[identity profile] miramanga.livejournal.com 2007-09-13 04:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Ahh but She Bu is noisy and grimey and behind the main streets where I live (West Kensington) it is very avenueish and lovely! And I count Soho as West (The West End!) which is cheating I know, but I do love the decadent Soho!

I count Hyde Park as ours too....!

[identity profile] g0ldt00th.livejournal.com 2007-09-13 04:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Soho is central. You're cheating.

There are parts of west London that are lovely, but there are also parts that are grotty and noisy. Just like the rest of London!

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/-aphasiac-/ 2007-09-13 04:24 pm (UTC)(link)
blimey - now im quite excited about moving West this weekend.

still f'ing nightmare though, so much stuff to do!

[identity profile] miramanga.livejournal.com 2007-09-13 04:32 pm (UTC)(link)
It's FUN!

[identity profile] miramanga.livejournal.com 2007-09-13 11:50 pm (UTC)(link)
I cant believe you told Fong I was neglecting you! I sent you a text a couple days ago you chief!

;P

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/-aphasiac-/ 2007-09-14 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
oi, does she talk about everything anyone says with you?

yeh that was a nice txt - but i didnt get a reply to mine. but more importantly, you do so much and stuff happens to you and you dont tell me! half your LJ entries are totally cryptic. ah dont matter, we should just try and hang out more.

[identity profile] miramanga.livejournal.com 2007-09-14 08:00 am (UTC)(link)
We do live in each others brains...!

Sorry about all the cryptic stuff. It's been a weird time of late...but I do apologise!!

We should 100% hang out more!

PS If u promise NOT to bring the gun!

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/-aphasiac-/ 2007-09-14 09:24 am (UTC)(link)
haha sorry if the above post was quite rambly - alcohol + internet = badness.