singing in the rain

I'm all filled up with love and horniness and caffiene. Met Jade in the library, she was revising for her driving theory test. I flicked through a book on cult fiction while I waited for her to finish the little self-test she was doing then we went to find somewhere to have coffee/tea. It was raining, desperate rain, filling people up with irritation and anger, me included. We missioned around looking for somewhere, with me getting more and more annoyed with humanity. Some townie started on me, the ol' dirty mosher routine that I've heard so many times before. I wanted to headbutt the cunt, throw him up against a store window and cave his skull in with my fist, but didn't. I gave him a look and he just said "Oh, don't look at me like that, I'll fuck you up." - I nearly snapped right then but showed quite remarkable self-control. If Jade hadn't of been there to ground me...

We decided to go to this canteen called "Baker's Oven" - because it would be cheaper than a coffee-house. We got there and then she realised she didn't have any money... We would have to go to the bank. Then, all of a sudden she spotted Sion gliding towards us, in that way he does. He'd been to the job-centre to make an appointment for signing on for job seekers allowance. It's about time, he's been broke for so long he's starting to lose his mind. I asked him if he cared to join us but he was on a mission from god or something, going to some career advice place about getting his novel published. We said goodbye, did a funky little handshake thing, and off he glided again.

We're such fucking hipsters, it's kinda pathetic.

Jade devised an action plan, she's good at that. We would head up to Queen Street (zoomable pannable map of Cardiff City Centre) where she could go to the bank, then go to the Madisons Coffeehouse which was upstairs in the Capital Centre, the dark and dingy one. Perfect. She had a pot of earl grey and I had a large double-shot latte. We saw our friend PJ there, we hadn't really seen him for like 4 months, he just hadn't been around the usual haunts. We talked about books and fashion and relationships. I gave him the low-down on our near split up. It was all cool. He was there to see his boyfriend who worked there, but he couldn't talk to him right then because of the influx of customers. The customers went, and PJ gave us permission to leave - the funny fucker.

Jade said there was a sale on at Barkers. Jade has this thing about wanting to dress me up. It could have something to do with my total lack of regard for that kind of thing, I dress down to the point of absurdity most of time, all my clothes are too big (I've lost a lot of weight in the past year), and torn in places, coming apart at the seams... It's my look! The scruffy, grungy, messy, utilarian, mis-matched look. Also, I haven't actually brought myself any new clothes for at least over a year and the last time I got any new clothes was christmas. It does make me smile and glow inside, the fact that she cares so much, she has good fashion sense and I could do alot worse in a shopping partner. In the end we brought a black-orange horizontal-stripey jumper, and a cool white shirt with thin vertical stripes - the jumper was £10, the shirt £5 - not bad at all. Then she said I couldn't have them 'till my birthday, the tease. We browsed various shops for a while but then she had to go home. I waited with her for her bus, kissing her neck, and generally making a nusance of myself. Then I walked home in the rain singing to myself.