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Gosh, how grown up. I spent last night, what remained of it after sending the last few pages of the issue off to print, ironing a shirt. Anyone who knows me will know what a big deal this is; I’ve only ironed about three times since I moved out of home six and a bit years ago.
The rest of the time I wear vaguely crumpled t-shirts.
Anyhow, ironing. Two shirts. Almost an hour. They look good, though.
It was in honour of tomorrow night’s Macworld awards, on account of which I ended up buying the remaining parts of the black-tie garb I’d not shelled out for at our awards last year. Being as I don’t even own a suit it all feels very grown up.
It’s a good couple of days for parties, actually. That’s tomorrow; tonight was the launch of Office 2004 at Sanderson, one of the snazziest non-hotel-looking hotels in London. It used to be a wallpaper factory and still looks like it. In fact, doing a quick hunt through this blog on its name I see that last time I went GQ had just declared it the world’s hippest hotel, perhaps on account of the lack of walls between the bed and the toilet up in the rooms.
Fortunately, we all stayed downstairs where there are plenty of walls and the toilets are like a girlie dressing room. And yes, I did go to the gents.
It all finished rather early, unfortunately, but it was good to catch up with names and faces, and have a rather extended chat with someone I’d apparently had an equally extended chat with at our awards. I remember nothing of it, so I guess it was fairly late on.
I wonder what I said…
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5 Responses to “Sanderson”
I tell you what, I’ll do you a deal: I’ll iron your shirts once a week and you teach me basic, simple computer stuff, like layout, editing your photos and such. How does that sound?
• Posted at 2:33 pm on May 20th, 2004 by Krist.Ooooh, forgot (or got distracted by a whining toddler): Hotel lobby toilets, aren’t they wonderful to explore! The ones in H
• Posted at 2:40 pm on May 20th, 2004 by Krist.Hotel Borg looked lovely. We used to have peppermint tea in Cafe Paris every night after dinner before heading out to the pub so saw a lot of it from the outside. If I’d known it had swanky from the inside I’d have used the facilities.
• Posted at 5:39 pm on May 20th, 2004 by Nik.H
• Posted at 10:01 pm on May 20th, 2004 by Krist.
Blimey, one hour for two shirts! Furthermore, how do you get through life not ironing? I iron twice a week, everything, pants an all (people in the gym see them). Then by the time I’ve come to wear the shirt previously ironed, it’s normally got a few creases from hanging, so it gets another quick run over.
• Posted at 10:21 am on May 20th, 2004 by kev.