Saturday in the City

It's been the most stunning day here in this most beautiful of cities. I spent a shocking amount of time inside this morning, instead of gambolling around in nearby parks - but I was lying in the sun, basking on my sofa, finally finishing off The Mitfords (excellent), so was certainly appreciating the external gorgeousness while not actually being out in it. Then in the late afternoon I went to meet Sara and we had a delicious walk along the Thames, eating figs, not affording grilled meat products, photographing me and the Houses of Parliament (not together), talking about film and art and boys and other topics of weight. It was lovely. Now we're back at my flat, I've 'carb-loaded' in preparation for my 10k run tomorrow morning, we've watched The X-Factor and Sara is snoring very sweetly on my sofa after her hardcore night out last night, which meant she didn't get to bed until 6.30 this morning.

I'm feeling a bit weird about tomorrow morning. The furthest I've ever run is 9k, and the last time I jogged was on Wednesday and my foot started hurting after about 20 minutes. Today it hurt even when I was only walking. So, the short story is that I clearly shouldn't be running at all. But... I said I'd do it, I want to do it, I doubt I'll do it again... It has to be done.

To alleviate the stress and distract myself today, I made my playlist for the event. It is as follows (to be played on Shuffle):

My My My (Radio Edit) Armand Van Helden
Toxic Britney Spears
Galvanize The Chemical Brothers
Notorious Duran Duran
Feel Good Inc. Gorillaz
Move Your Feet Junior Senior
Everything Is Everything Lauryn Hill
Always On My Mind Pet Shop Boys
Millennium Robbie Williams
Comfortably Numb Scissor Sisters
Freak Like Me Sugababes
Crazy (Single Version) Gnarls Barkley
Hollaback Girl Gwen Stefani
Gold Digger feat. Jamie Foxx Kanye West
Roam The B-52's
Blue Song Mint Royale
Overprotected Britney Spears
Sledgehammer Peter Gabriel
Alphabet Street Prince
Sweet Dreams My LA Ex Rachel Stevens
Acceptable In the 80's Calvin Harris
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger Daft Punk
Mama's Always On Stage Arrested Development
Thou Shalt Always Kill Dan Le Sac & Scroobius Pip
My Definition of a Boombastic Jazz Style Dream Warriors
World's Greatest Lover Farrell Lennon
Can't Speak French Girls Aloud
Cold As Ice M.O.P.
Everything is Everything Phoenix
A Fifth Of Beethoven Walter Murphy
That's Not My Name The Ting Tings
American Boy (feat. Kanye West) Estelle
Black & Gold Sam Sparro
La Ritournelle Sebastien Tellier

Wish me luck.