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green_amberDay 226 in the Big Brother house, sorry, post-Worldcon Bruntsfield.. Andy has been by to say hi en route back from Yorks, my friend Scott (former Unwanted Visitor with Preggers Girfriend for those with long memories) has demanded pubbage this evening pre Tattoo (I loathe the tattoo & never go), sigh. Inbetween is glorious stillness. I love visitors, especially American/Ozzie type, but I also love it when they go away:-) The cats are ecstatic. What shall I do? Shall I go to the Fringe? the Book festival? the Botanics? the Gauguin exhibition? Centotre to find Vincent? Or shall I just sit here and revel in having tidied up kitchen, put dishwasher and washing machine on with full loads, and have a long bath!
Yesterday, after disasters of the Night Afore, turned out very well in the end. Eileen (Gunn) and Ellen (Datlow) were retrieved, and we all trundled off to the Pleasance quad to see what we could see. Which turned out to be yet more fans (hi Moshe), my pal Vincent and his daughter, and this year's Ben Moor production Coelocanth, which as with last year's Black Cocktail, based on a Jonathan Carroll novella, was charming, whimsical and very well acted, though a bit slighter than last year's. We had a Very Cool Moment when Ben Moor himself stopped by our table and Ellen casually mentioned that she was Jonathan Carroll's editor. Ben transmuted into fanboy, while I gazed adoringly at him. He really is very cute/nice/cool/tall.
Later we reconvened at Centotre, the style-Italian restaurant I've been trying to get into for about a year. It was as Sex and the City-ish as I'd hoped - the Strawberry and Black Pepper martini was fabulously aromatic and while I talked Eileen into having one too, I moved onto the fresh blueberry prosecco with Italian blueberry liqueur (Mirtillina). All this plus a bottle of wine made me giggly enough to thoroughly enjoy Andy Parsons at the Assembly Rooms, the comic we randomly selected, even though as I said to Eileen, "he was kind of the 100 on the IQ test of stand up comics" - workmanlike but rather uninspired. And home to see Anthony win BB- well, the nicest guy won I guess even if he is thicker than my cat Java. I felt a bit sorry for Makosi but not much.
And sleep sleep. I still think I have a G8-sized sleep debt. Tomorrow Fringe Sunday and two shows booked with Andy. Anyone turning up on the Meadows?
Yesterday, after disasters of the Night Afore, turned out very well in the end. Eileen (Gunn) and Ellen (Datlow) were retrieved, and we all trundled off to the Pleasance quad to see what we could see. Which turned out to be yet more fans (hi Moshe), my pal Vincent and his daughter, and this year's Ben Moor production Coelocanth, which as with last year's Black Cocktail, based on a Jonathan Carroll novella, was charming, whimsical and very well acted, though a bit slighter than last year's. We had a Very Cool Moment when Ben Moor himself stopped by our table and Ellen casually mentioned that she was Jonathan Carroll's editor. Ben transmuted into fanboy, while I gazed adoringly at him. He really is very cute/nice/cool/tall.
Later we reconvened at Centotre, the style-Italian restaurant I've been trying to get into for about a year. It was as Sex and the City-ish as I'd hoped - the Strawberry and Black Pepper martini was fabulously aromatic and while I talked Eileen into having one too, I moved onto the fresh blueberry prosecco with Italian blueberry liqueur (Mirtillina). All this plus a bottle of wine made me giggly enough to thoroughly enjoy Andy Parsons at the Assembly Rooms, the comic we randomly selected, even though as I said to Eileen, "he was kind of the 100 on the IQ test of stand up comics" - workmanlike but rather uninspired. And home to see Anthony win BB- well, the nicest guy won I guess even if he is thicker than my cat Java. I felt a bit sorry for Makosi but not much.
And sleep sleep. I still think I have a G8-sized sleep debt. Tomorrow Fringe Sunday and two shows booked with Andy. Anyone turning up on the Meadows?
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Date: 2005-08-13 01:38 pm (UTC)