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sxsw: …and we’re back

I’m writing this sequestered in a hotel suite five times the size of my flat, at an undisclosed location in one of those cities that isn’t LA within LA (there are 80-odd, I think.) Earth Wind & Fire are on the smooth jazz station housekeeping left on my iPod-radio-alarm-clock thingy to welcome me, and I left all my energy in Austin so I can’t make it into the other room to start Dark Days/Light Years up instead.

I’ve been stupidly battered by insomnia on and off for years, so you’d think I’d be fine with a bit of sleep deprivation by now, but South by Southwest 2009 really did a number on me. After trekking there on Wednesday (more on our Amazing Race adventures later,) by Saturday I was puking in a bush for no apparent reason beyond having gone to bed at seven or eight in the morning day after day after 80-degree day.

My ability to take a decent picture seemed horribly hit or miss by then, too, and I was just about ready to put the bloody camera on eBay and go back to Essex for some babies and the dole, but luckily Sunday turned into the best day of my life and Monday saw me end up with fancy cheese, cookies and my first ever attempt to open a bottle of wine by myself, so now things no longer seem quite so dreadful.

Perhaps I’ll give it all just one more go, and maybe one day stop over exposing everything so badly.

Night night.

(The picture at the top is Pre at Mohawk, by the way. You can see most of ‘em on Prefix—scroll down and click, or we’ll send you out to sleep in the hammock.)

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