the blushing cat

Rightly or wrongly, I can’t stop thinking about that show the other night. I was outraged at first but now I just feel a profound sadness about it which I know seems extreme but that’s how it is.

• I feel really let down by the judgement behind the decision.
• More than anything, I feel as though the time, money and experience of the fans were treated as secondary.
  • People will have taken time off work to attend.
  • People will have travelled.
  • People will have saved up to buy tickets.
  • People will have received tickets as presents.
  • People will have paid

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Day seventeen

Just travel today. Before we left the hotel, C asked me how much 15kg was in stone and I answered immediately with 9 stone to which C replied, It’s not 9 stone, Emily. I’ve not been walking around with a person on my back. I was laughing so much I couldn’t stand up. For those interested, it’s more like 2 stone and a bit.

We got to the train station and it was similar to airport security. It took ages and my passport never works so it’s always a right pain. We’d planned to go to Starbucks but ...

Day eleven

We got to the airport and the queue to check-in was ridiculous. We wanted to sit together and the only seats available were the emergency exit row ones. We were allowed to have these seats despite neither of us being able to speak Mandarin which seemed like a flaw in the system to us. We played our game of spend our remaining cash at Starbucks in the airport, got on the plane and arrived in Shanghai.

We stayed at the Grand Hyatt Shanghai on the 77th floor and for the first few days, we were scared of how ...

I love Weezer, but I am appalled that they were ok with that. How was that allowed to happen? People paid money to see them and they got that. That’s how you decide to debut your new song? Shockingly poor judgement. The person in question doesn’t seem to realise how terrible they were, which seems incredibly arrogant to me but then if you have the sycophants telling you that you were great, maybe you just decide to believe those voices? If Weezer associate with people like that, it makes me question my love for them. I am quite disgusted by ...

Do socks that don’t fall down exist? I’ve certainly never found any. It doesn’t matter which brand I buy, how much I spend, which size I get, none of them stay up! I must have weird legs or something because no one else seems to have this issue. It’s the bane of my life! ...