I need...

[smokingboot]

peace; An intensity of rest; pity from a pychotic friend with a trank gun. Unconsciousness for a week would only be part of it. The weekend offered many delights, but tranquility was not one of them. I am not fussy about snoring - everybody does it from time to time and it's no big deal - but the combination of alcohol and hacking coughs made the night varied and colourful in its stimuli. Then my love got the most harrowing flu/chest cold thing, and has since spent the week coughing, I swear, every 20 seconds. Not his fault (don't worry my darling, I am not blaming you!)but I got no sleep whatsoever, and this from a woman who has spent drunken stupors folded up in a kitchen sink.

There is way too much to think about, too much to even write about. I need refreshment of the mind and yet I'm too knackered to respond to it - we were going to see Macclesfield Amdram's rendition of Anna Karenina tonight but my love's illness saved me. Another day I will rev myself up for culture... I have poured some aromatherapeutic stuff called 'Serenity' into the bath I'm running. It's blue-purple so it must work.

Yes, there is important stuff out there, and in here too. But it will all have to wait until I am human again.

CLXXX. "A slumber did my spirit seal" - William Wordsworth

A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seem'd a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.

No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Roll'd round in earth's diurnal course
With rocks, and stones, and trees.

Thank you William. Goodnight.

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[november-girl.livejournal.com]

I am not fussy about snoring - everybody does it from time to time and it's no big deal - but the combination of alcohol and hacking coughs made the night varied and colourful in its stimuli.

I'm sorry hon. The builders are round looking at the loft today (possibly even as we speak, as ephraim is dealing with them), so sleeping arrangements should be more adequate and spacious next time you visit. Not that it will save you from larians, of course.

[smokingboot.livejournal.com]

You have nothing to apologise for, the hospitality was fantastic as ever. It was just a remarkable night for curious noises!