Housekeeping

One of the first bits of sage advice I got from an older escort when I first started accruing dollmop points, was, always be reliable. Reliability, she tutored, was more important than looks, personality or paperwork. She may have said combined, and with dramatic emphasis. I think it’s possible she was labouring the thesis, but her basic argument was sound. Reliability, as an independent escort and companion, does seem pretty imperative.

There are two forms of key ‘reliability metric’. I’m peerless on one and inadequate on the other. The former is, turning up to dates with clients when I say I will and being amiably responsive to all necessary communications. On this I take pride. The latter is, keeping a strict routine that clients can always refer to; knowing when you plan to be at different locales and such. I’m terrible at this; mind bogglingly terrible. Clients-regularly-mock-me-about-it, terrible. I’m capricious to a fault. I like to move about through life on my whims, it's probably a tad childlike, in a fashion.

In my defence, I have a gnarly set of interests and responsibilities; as well as escort and dominatrix dates, I have a little low-paid ‘doing it for love of it’ side hustle, I’m a perma-student, a total cat-mum, and I have lots of nerdish obsessions and concomitant goals and bucket list items. And then there is life admin, exercise, shopping, beauty treatments, meeting friends etc. I’m always trying to juggle all this stuff, move things around to get it all trimmed together. And the pieces are very moving (especially escorting!) so that adds another layer of administrative difficulty.

It’s funny, I’m always getting the ‘I work hard, you don’t understand because you have nothing to do"‘ thing from people, even though I very seldom spend time doing absolutely nothing. Indeed, I have to force myself regularly to just take ‘leisure time’, and not work out some way of making it, productive or creative or seeing how it might serve some longterm insurance. If I watch a movie one evening, I like to combine it with yoga, painting my toenails, or organising and tracking finances, at the very least.

But I don’t take it personally, fyi. It’s just how people can be; we often feel the need to believe we work harder or suffer more than others or our lives have more intrinsic value. It’s because the world is “haphazard, morally neutral and unimaginably violent”+ and no-one is going to remember we existed a hundred years after we die++ and that is frightening. So, we have to invent for ourselves a ‘main character’ just to cope. When main character syndrome goes thoughtlessly unchecked, it can make people chronically and destructively competitive. It’s almost an ancillary. And I’m a nerdy hooker who makes choices best on pleasure and interest, not social currency and bourgeois respect, so I’m an easy target. I don’t have many quick-box-tick items on my social-status list and I’m a happy little soul, and that weirds narcissists out like there is no tomorrow. It used to upset me, now I kinda enjoy it.

Anyway, mildly frustrated psycho-social digressions aside.

I’ve tried different measures. Touring week on, week off and focusing on escort dates whilst away and other stuff whilst at home, but then I just start missing home after a few weeks. Segmenting up the day, segmenting up the week. Etc etc. I guess when you have lots of mis-matched threads to tie you’ll never end up with one neat ball of yarn.

I don’t drive and I have a disorganised temperament (which I work hard to correct), so I can’t wait for the future to remove cars off the road and replace them with a complex network of glimmering, white, egg shaped pods that glom-glom people about smoothly and quietly, that can transiently connect to my own personalised, artificial assistant system (and smell gently of bergamot mist, offer chilled mint water and play soft Debussy). Until such time, I’m attempting to do my best and lambast myself less. Lambasting is after all, energy sapping and time consuming.

For the next week at least (I’ll try to stick to it!) I’ll be in LS1, Leeds, at least on Wednesdays and Thursdays, and possibly also Fridays. I’ll be at central Leeds hotels from about 10am-4pm. Pre-booking is never a bad idea but I’ll also happily take last minute escort dates. I can also be free for dominatrix sessions but these are best pre-booked if you want specific equipment, else I’ll just bring basic stuff (cuffs, blindfold etc). On Mondays, Tuesdays, weekends and evenings in the next week or two at least, I’ll be free in LS7/leafy North Leeds, generally by pre-booking and for one hour plus. Then I always want to try to get down to London, at least once a month; should be mid-late Sept next and in Pimlico.

OK, it took me a day to make a change; see? Capricious. I have my reasons. I’ll be in LS7 for the rest of the week for Dominatrix sessions, check the tab for further details.

Anyhoo, thats enough housekeeping for now. Hope to see you soon,

KISSES, CORA LEIGH

LEEDS & LONDON, UK INDEPENDENT ESCORT, DOMINATRIX & COMPANION

+September, 1987

++”the problem with death
is we have some hundred years
and then they can build buildings
on our only bones
a hundred years
and then your grave is not your own
we lie in our beds
and our graves
unable to save ourselves
from the quaint tragedies we invent
and undo
from the stupid circumstances
we slalom through” - Pulse, 1998