Oy vey, yesterday was not the best of days… It seemed to me that the bad news kept coming, one after another.
I had just purchased a new netbook, the Sony VAIO W, in Sugar White, of course, so that I didn’t have to drag my rather weighty existing VAIO FJ laptop on a daily 45 minute walk back and forth from the faculty to the house. I bought it from Amazon, which qualified me for the Amazon Prime One-Day Free Delivery. I ordered the netbook on Friday, and was happily expecting it to arrive on Saturday so that I could spend the whole of Sunday tinkering with it, and prepping it so that I would be ready to strut into faculty on Monday with a brand new, super-light and portable netbook, slid away in one of my many gorgeous bags, without having to schlep it in my arm alongside whatever other bag I was carrying.
I decided to have the parcel delivered to the residence reception, since I was going out to meet SM, who I haven’t seen since graduation, and who was coming up to visit Universitas to do a bit of shopping. However, I woke up on Saturday morning, and found, to my chagrin, that the delivery personnel had arrived at reception, and found no one there! Appalling! There’s ALWAYS supposed to be a fucking porter around to sign for packages etc, even on a bleeding weekend. But yeah, since my residence didn’t have one, they had to arrange for redelivery on Monday, which meant that I still had to drag the heavy laptop for Corporate Finance at 9am, come back home after class to get the netbook, configure it, charge it etc, and then head back to faculty at 4pm for Commercial Equity, when I would have spent the whole day in faculty just doing work in the library. Urgh…
Not only that, I checked the website, and found that the price on the same effin’ website, had dropped by 20 quid in just ONE day! I was absolutely furious, but felt that it’d be too much hassle just to return it for a refund and reorder a new one.
So, I was already in a foul mood when I left the house to meet SM. I was all dressed up in my Burberry lightweight packaway trench, cashmere Ralph Lauren cricket vest and polo, and jeans and my Adidas superstar sneakers. The day looked absolutely fine, but just as I strolled down the street, the wind started blowing in so many directions, and it started pouring down! Fat load of help the umbrella turned out to be, which ended up waving about all over the place. I had to run for the bus, got in, missed my stop, had to walk back in the opposite direction in the rain, with one of my shoelaces coming undone and nearly sending me flying across the pavement before I finally made it. Geez! I should have just stayed home I think.
However, I did have a good time with SM. We caught up about life post-University, and our respective lives and future plans. And of course, bitching and gossiping about other University members and dissecting every single possible scandal we had unearthed… All over some good hearty Italian fare in a nice, toasty restaurant, ending with lovely desserts. I had a particularly good chocolate torte with some whipped cream on the side.
After lunch, we walked around the Grand Arcade, and I finally got hold of The September Issue on DVD. Tickled me pink when I saw the slogan, “Fashion is a religion. This is the Bible.” Hehehehehe.
I watched it immediately when I got home. Of course, it was absolutely fabulous. Watching Anna and Grace duke it out, albeit restrainedly, over the various spreads that were to go into the record-breaking tome, the breathtakingly gorgeous shoots in equally beautiful locations, and of course, the FASHION… It was a worthwhile purchase…
The day ended well though. I wrote to Amazon noting my dissatisfaction with the pricing policy, and they refunded me the extra 20 quid. Love their customer service!

