| Didn't even have to use my AK, today was a good day |
[May. 25th, 2008|10:23 pm] |
Which is weird, considering I laid in my pit until ten to six in the afternoon reading scans_daily and being a glum internet boy. Anyway, I got a cab out to a leafy little area near Headingly in Leeds to meet my new landlord. He is awesome, a really cool guy. I gave him some details and we swapped a bit of idle chatter, then he let me get a free ride in on his cab to Leeds city centre. I decide that I should probably go and see my friend E at the bar she works at, who is damn cool but I don't hang out with enough. So I go down and she is at work and stands me a tasty glass of Leffe . I drink the Leffe and buy myself one, chatting to her when she was free, and soaking up the jazzy euro ambience.
As I leave and walk home two girls ask me to walk them to an offlicence. It turns out to be closed but I stroll back with them to the taxi rank and they're both kind of cool. As I glance back over my shoulder on leaving I see the taller one is glancing at me. My manliness reafirmed, I get lost taking a side street I've never taken before...
...and find a river. A river I've never seen in four years of living in the area. The traffic is quiet and distant, the sunset is a gorgeous situation, and there's a fine black swan with a vivid red beak. I linger a while, soaking up the ambience, at peace, realising deliciously that this is one of the moments of total contentedness that life sometimes throws me. Behind me is a big empty car park, the sunset is casting vivid pastel hues over Leeds, everything's good.
I go home, chat with a stranger while waiting to say hi to the super, and end up bailing her out with toilet paper.
Sometimes life just throws quiet excellence at you, and that's quite enough for me to keep going. |
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