It's not that I am not a social person -- I am, of course, a Gemini -- it's just that the last few days have been a rather strange, blurred amalgam of demanding quasi-social professional situations ("A subscription to your magazine costs $1,800 a year? How fascinating!") and resolutely odd purely social circumstances, e.g. "going out", which I don't do much of ordinarily, somehow found its way to the top of last weekend's agenda. And then I was in DC for a few hours, really (more on that here), which left me feeling rather exhausted after driving back to New York yesterday morning.
Quite relieved to be back at my desk today, I am working in a most refreshingly uninterrupted manner, and catching up on important professional concerns that I only had intermittent time to attend to Monday and Tuesday. What this means for you: I do love coming up with the fresh original content ideally posted daily in this space, but this week doesn't look so good for regular posting. Although: I have two engagements tonight, something special planned for tomorrow, and I am pretty close to buying a beautiful painting for my next apartment. So yes, theoretically, there is news on every front, as usual.
Last night, as I was walking home from an event, I decided that instead of stopping for a solitary drink at a friend's bar, what I really ought to do was buy myself some flowers and cigarettes at the nearest bodega and then hail a taxi home. Which got me thinking about the exquisitely high-end flower arranging lessons at Jane Packer Flower School that I received as a birthday gift from a v. generous admirer last year.
Although I prize the fantastically useful skills I picked up in my two days of courses, they are sort of under-developed yet formal, and so in order to put my own spin on the modern bouquet and combine it with my sad little heart's desire, I started thinking about a gorgeous flower arrangement with a smattering of cigarettes actually in it (fastened to lush, leafy fronds with antique hat pins?) for the casual social smoker who may be feeling slightly sorry for herself at the moment.
If I weren't so busy today, I might whip it up for you (me). At any rate, things in general are freakishly good, and I shall pop in with more details soon -- maybe even tonight if my usual insomnia prevails...
[Note: image nicked from here]
Related from the LL Archives: Clandestine Smoking + Nostalgic Glamour,Tulips, to Kiss You.
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