Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma

Felt quite emotionally heightened and subsequently, drained after today - entirely thanks to the games and movies I ended up spending time with. I finished my Donald Duck and anime kids game which ended with a lot of big imagery about doors being closed and friends left behind (all thematically ham-fisted by the writing, but somewhere deep inside it rung true). In the evening we met up with some film friends to check out the new meta horror film Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma which operated on about three levels higher than something like Scream. Self-Referential, genre savvy and morbidly entertaining, it's a film that actually quite exhausting because of how it thinks and presents itself. My head feels full after having watched it, especially because it gets mighty interpretive by the end but it was a great way to end a Tuesday night.

Supermarket Schwoops

A truth as old as time is that we all eventually turn into our parents.

Growing up, Louis and I would frequently have to do a run to a corner shop after Mum planned to make a midweek dinner (let's say carbonara for the sake of this example), only to realise she forgot to buy the spaghetti. 

And the eggs.

And the bacon. 

Well today I did the meal planning and the big shop and only had to go back to the supermarket twice to get the ingredients I flat out forgot I needed for it. Time and genetics catch up to us all. 

Frozen Feast

Jamie took us out to a very alternative Indian fusion brunch spot where we got a spicy rice bowl to kick start our day. We saw a little more of Jamie's ends then packed our bags and jetted out from one city to another. We got back a touch late so we wanted some real 'brain off' food so fish fingers won out. I left Tesco Express with a frozen feast and we unashamedly left no crumbs. Two more weeks of freedom, what could they have in store I wonder?

South-East Londoner's

Took Rebecca's Mum back up to London then continued on to meet Jamie and his partner in their London home. After a hearty lunch we went on a very big London walk, exploring London's South-East side. The Cutty Sark made an appearance (last time I saw it the ship was a burnt out husk). We did it all while the sun slowly set on the city that never sleeps. We dropped into a pub for a quirky pint then headed to a microbrewery for another round of drinks, pizza, games and a chats galore. Jamie has clearly found a part of the world to love and call his own, it was a pleasure to enjoy every part he showed us, while he was beaming from ear-to-ear.

Donald Duck and Friends

Rebecca's mum is staying with us just til tomorrow morning. She did a solo trip out to town centre armed with all our knowledge of local buses and came back relatively unscathed. While she was out I could play video games without feeling self conscious - the one I'm playing right now has Donald Duck fighting alongside anime tweens and I could have lost years of my life trying to explain to her why the internet and a few friends tell me it's better than Citizen Kane. Rebecca's mum thankfully has an appetite for medical dramas and was happy to rewatch a few episodes of The Pitt as Rebecca and I make our way through it. Nothing like finding common ground between families while watching patients get breathing tubes shoved down their throats.

Running in the Drizzles

Now the weather has cooled off significantly I thought now was a good day to get back I to running. I inadvertently ended up jogging during a rainstorm in the sunshine, I spent most of it wiping the water off my sunglasses.

Part two on my unexpected things was finishing up Final Fantasy. I knew I was on the final boss and my characters were all very well leveled and ready to rumble. Shouldn't take more than an hour... Then my whole morning went in the blink of an eye. I'm relieved it's all done and dusted now, this one started to get a bit too long in the tooth.

Client Dinner

I went alongside a PM friend to get wined and dined by a vendor for a camera equipment hire company. I've never really been to a client dinner of sorts I suppose, I was just delighted to find I was sat across from some actually very normal people who didn't push anything on us. It was just friendly networking, plus moussaka and vine-wrapped halloumi. 

I left the lunch to go meet a Canadian Cousin who was spending the day with Mum in Bristol. They mostly went thrifting in the nearby vintage shops and to see some nearby sights the city has to offer. I very much joined during the tail end of their day out but it was fun to show off the spots I hold dear to new eyes.