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tattoos and such
Feb. 23rd, 2007 11:17 pmGot up at 7:15, resenting it all the way, trundled off to Paddington, got on train, sat down, then got mildly scared by the sudden appearance of legions of Japanese students on the platform, all crowding onto the train. Legions. All going to Cardiff. Yours truly was sitting with some design people going for a weekend training exercise, and zonked out just after Reading, so there went the train journey. Did it on the way back too.
Wandered around Cardiff city centre a bit, looked at some shoes, had a hot dog, got tattooed - fortunately two hours rather than three, which means I at least have a bit of cash (about 30 quid - riches, I tell you!) until the end of the month. Looks a bit odd since the leaves are bright yellow-green at the moment, and will take a couple of weeks to fade as they heal. Varied between a digging sensation and the pain kicking in when he was going over some bits. Simon (the tattooist) couldn't figure out why I was a bit cold so early until I pointed out that last time he'd had a portable heater in there, it being mid-January.
Talked a bit about a few things, including him asking how people'd taken the tattoo. When I'd said about more girls than blokes wanting to see it he reckoned it's because girls tend to plan theirs a bit more, the sea change in opinion about tattooing and body modification - parents' generation tended to think of it as not the sort of thing polite young people got - then we had a bit of a laugh about all the questions people ask about it hurting and your answer tends to be 'er, depends...'
Pubmeet tomorrow. Food shopping sunday. Oh yay, a week of cling-filming my back to look forward to. Must find where I put the sellotape.
Wandered around Cardiff city centre a bit, looked at some shoes, had a hot dog, got tattooed - fortunately two hours rather than three, which means I at least have a bit of cash (about 30 quid - riches, I tell you!) until the end of the month. Looks a bit odd since the leaves are bright yellow-green at the moment, and will take a couple of weeks to fade as they heal. Varied between a digging sensation and the pain kicking in when he was going over some bits. Simon (the tattooist) couldn't figure out why I was a bit cold so early until I pointed out that last time he'd had a portable heater in there, it being mid-January.
Talked a bit about a few things, including him asking how people'd taken the tattoo. When I'd said about more girls than blokes wanting to see it he reckoned it's because girls tend to plan theirs a bit more, the sea change in opinion about tattooing and body modification - parents' generation tended to think of it as not the sort of thing polite young people got - then we had a bit of a laugh about all the questions people ask about it hurting and your answer tends to be 'er, depends...'
Pubmeet tomorrow. Food shopping sunday. Oh yay, a week of cling-filming my back to look forward to. Must find where I put the sellotape.
