Here is a quote from my paper journal:

"I have just spent a really quite astounding amount of money. It was like I was just released from prison."

And I guess I was, you see, because I was released from my no buying year because I was in Europe. You cannot expect me not to spend money on vacation, and neither I could, because yesterday was the day that I started flinging money away from me with both hands.

Molly K sent me to the main shopping drag near our B&B, and I staggered towards it like the zombies in Return of the Living Dead, ("More brains!"), first hitting HMV, then Waterstones, then the Body Shop, and then Lush. Yes, Lush! I have never actually been to a Lush shop, only done the web thing, but Molly assured me that one was right around the corner, just down the street, but I didn't see it and I didn't see it, but then, when I was still a block away, I smelled it.

Anyway, I spent about $400 in 3 hours. I was like the Tasmanian Devil.

After the Shop Attack, I was walking to George Square to look at whatever the hell big building that is there, and I turned my head before crossing the street and saw this statue of a man on a horse and someone had put a traffic cone on his head, so I went over to take a picture and saw that I was in front of the Gallery of Modern Art.

So I went in, of course.

I turned out that Molly K had mentioned it to me, each floor was themed on a different element, and it was absolutely great.

O wait, I forgot the bit where I was turning to go into the building and tripped over a small, completely invisible step and crashed down right on my knees like a ton of bricks. That was certainly entertaining, and made for a cartoonish limp around the museum. I have the hugest bruises this morning.

Anyway, the themed floors. I rarely got why something was on the earth floor rather than the air floor, but it hardly mattered. Fire was closed. Not due to fire, I imagine. Ha! I slay me. The art was swell and the building was beautiful. I took a bunch of pictures, as I always do in museums.

Then I left and checked out George Square, but it was too late to see the building properly. I still have no idea what it was.

Went back to the internet place to check my email, and Molly K came in before I left, so I waited for her and we went home together.

I took a complicated bath featuring all of my cool new Lush stuff, and still smelled great hours later. The shower part was weird, though, because instead of there being a curtain or a door around it, there is just a small half door between the half of the bath where the nozzle was and the toilet. Said nozzle points straight down from the ceiling, and therefor the half door (which looks like something in Willy Wonka's office) works beautifully!

You know, as long as no-one actually gets into the shower, because as soon as there is a body for the water to bounce off of, the entire bathroom immediately becomes drenched from floor to ceiling. It looked as though a seal had taken a bath in there.

Anyway, I dried the bathroom as well as I could, and then Molly K and I went to dinner and the movies. Dinner was Pizza Hut, my choice, because nothing says Scotland to me like Pizza Hut. No, seriously! I never go near the place in the States, but take me to Edinburgh or Glasgow, and I'm all over it.

The movie was a Japanese film called The Audition that was just extraordinary. I don't know if it will ever be released in the US, but if it is and you have a strong stomach, go go go!

There is this one image of the girl on the floor with her hair hanging over her face and the phone is ringing and ringing and she's smiling and then the thing in the bag suddenly flings itself across the room. Nothing that came after, no matter how terrifying, was more frightening than that moment.

Today's horoscope:
Your intuitive faculties are sharp today and you may get impressions which will further your career. Pay attention.

One year ago today:
In the genre of Satan movies directed by Roman Polanski, it isn't the best one, but it was pretty fun.

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