Current mood:	happy
Current music:	La Roux - In For The Kill

Walking the line
Finally, November is really delivering. That was just the ultimate perfect weekend.

The regular 7am start on Saturday for the Voicing the Greeks class, we've been working on the Chorus this week and it's become this crazy almost physical theatre thing, extremely fun but highly exhausting. Straight after that it was off to the BAC, but because I had a bit of time I popped to Waterloo to pick up a ticket for my Christmas holiday in Devon. Despite only a month to go, I got the very last £7.25 ticket left - the minimum fare it costs to get there, over the coming weeks it'll rise much more than that. So far the journey there is booked for the 22nd, need to work out what day I'm going back so I can get a cheap ticket for the return journey too.

With that done I headed down to Victoria and the short journey to Clapham Junction. Couldn't have got there that way before as they've only just added Oyster pay-as-you-go to that route, so rather than wait 20 minutes for an Overground train there's one at Victoria every couple of minutes, much easier. And rather than a rehearsal or volunteer work, I was there to meet a wonderful, lovely YPT friend who is now at Leeds uni but was spending the weekend in London, and arranged to meet me there for a catchup. It was the first time I'd seen her since way back in May, so much has happened in both our lives since then and it was an utter joy to see her again. And because a YPT rehearsal was going on at the same time, I got to catch up with lots of YPT I've not seen since July. Won't be long before I see them again - I'll be seeing their show next Saturday and my Leeds friend is back in London for Christmas. Even just those events would have meant a great weekend, but as I made the very long journey back home to drop my college stuff off, more was to come.

I was only back for an hour as then had to get to a friend's birthday. The theme was old people and I found a tatty cardigan that I'd worn as a costume for 'The Weather Room' almost two years ago. Due to half the tubes not working I had to travel into Euston and then a stop back out to South Hampstead to get there, and a highly fun evening, another friend it was great to catch up with again and got to meet lots of fun new people too. One turned out to be a massive fan of Doctor Who, which is the perfect ice-breaker really and soon we were talking about every Who topic under the sun. Quite fitting given that the show is 46 years old today. As with last Saturday I had my stamina back and was there until the early hours of the morning, and wonderfully, rather than struggle with night buses home they gave me a lift back to Neasden, making the journey a breeze. A fantastic Saturday which could have been even longer, just as I got back at 2am someone texted me asking if I wanted to go swing-dancing. At 2am!! I was amazingly tempted but had to see sense, it'd take over an hour to get there and wasn't sure how long I'd last awake, but I'll see them on Tuesday anyway.

And then Sunday. I can't remember the last time I had a Sunday as great as yesterday. Still no tubes but I somehow got to Stepney Green in the afternoon for a swing-dance friend's tea party. They said they'd baked a lot, when we got there there were literally about a million cakes everywhere. Soon there were loads of us and we were all tucking into carrot cake, banana cake, brownies, victoria sponge...oh god my stomach is SO rumbling just typing this, remembering those wonderful tastes. Drinking tea and gin, having absolutely crazy conversations, and later on I played the ukelele for the first time. I only know one song - 'Walk The Line' by Johnny Cash - but given that I'd never played any string instruments in my life before yesterday, that's pretty good progress. I was so full by the end of the evening but we all got to take multiple slices of cake home (which will be eaten very quickly today!), and the best thing? We'll all see each other again for dancing on Tuesday.

A perfect Sunday and as I said at the start, a perfect weekend. One of those when I just had a huge fixed smile on my face for the whole long journey back. City Lit, YPT, and swing-dancers all involved as if to remind me of all the friends I've made over the last couple of years. November got off to a slow start but now it really has become awesome.

And this week especially is shaping up to be very epic! More details as they happen...