Exciting day

[adric]

• Lords


• War Cabinet (ass)


• Bakerloo (a-g)


• tube strike wed 2000


• baker street


• Jack:
  
  
  
  • is not named Jack, but I have no reason to actually identify the fellow
  
  
  • noticed my fingernails as I was walking back up Baker St (er M---, having lost Baker St.)
  
  
  • usual speech (milk, testosterone)
  
  
  • nail guy? (greatly admired my nails)
  
  
  • I asked him if he happened to know where the Holmes museum was
  
  
  • He assented and we walked together for a bit.
  
  
  • we chatted as we walked, and I answered:
    
    
    
    • about a month
    
    
    • studying here
    
    
    • Churchill and Shakespeare, actually
    
    
    • University of Surrey-Roehampton, SW of London, but only about 30 minutes by tube
    
    
    • at the school (where staying)
    
    
    • around Atlanta, Georgia
    
    
    
    
  
  
  • asked if I knew any other guys with long nails
  
  
  • I suggested the possibility of some gothlings with black nails: "young", "fashion"
  
  
  • He asked if I got hit on by men much, to which I replied:
  
  
  • "Well, I'm actually quite dense about such things, and I don't usually realize it until later, like the next morning or a week or so after ..." (and I believe I suggested without actually saying so that it had happened a couple times).
  
  
  • I said (in reply to what I don't exactly remember) something like: Thanks very much for the compliment, but I quite have to stay unattached as I am only in town for a short time.
  
  
  • phonebooth
  
  
  • I told him about watching the parade Saturday (gay rights), which he'd missed
  
  
  • queens of all sorts in (adjective) costumes
  
  
  • assent
  
  
  • I suggested that I was quite used to that sort of thing but some of the students we brought with us from more rural regions might have been shocked. I exercised a city/country cliche and actually used the word cosmopolitan.
  
  
  • exchange cards (his: Picture/Media Librarian)
  
  
  • I didn't recognize the entertainment group name, so he mentioned one of their more famous publications, which he said he works on, and that cleared it up a bit..
  
  
  • Mentioned a website for long nails
  
  
  • suggested he might like to photo my nails
  
  
  • (I expressly did not mention the King of the Hill episode.)
  
  
  • I suggested I might be up for it, and that he should email me...
  
  
  • He pointed me to the correct block of Baker St.
    
  • I got the email, headers look to match what he said, but the salient bit is:
    

    
    Dear Ben
    
    Wow!
    
    Delighted to meet you.
    
    In haste
    
    Jack
    

  
  
  • My surf of the site off his card matches up with the (world famous) publication he mentioned.
  
  
  • Now what do I do?
  
  
  
  


• holmes museum: victorian flat with his things set in it.


• laundry (german mtv)


• K asking me about a girl I have been hanging out a little with (has been hanging out around me a bit). I get the implication that there is some interest. To hear K: "She was talking about you" and "It was you" (there a a lot of people on this trip, but so few names. On my hall, it's Ben, Ben, Ken, Don, etc ).


• good lab is closed for the weekend, so I am in the LRC.


• And finally, I am flat broke, so I shan't be going anywhere this weekend after all, and paris is starting to look unlikely as well. (At 60-150 GBP for the train and the question of accomadations still unanswered, and my balance at 0.37 in the negative ... )

And there has been an inconsiderate or clueless, but definity Russian luser on this very machine. Every few minutes the top right corner is obscured by a Flash &trade 6 animation, in Cyrillic.