Do not tell me what i can and cannot do when i rock

saw Jo Mango last night- she was rocking pretty hard! YAY! Go JO!
WE're getting a flat!!!!
the deposit goes down today!!!!!
i'm so EXCITED!

thats all.

an austrian went yodelling...

wo, its been a while since i updated this.
I do apologise.
Just been an open mic night at sleazys. it was really good, but there were several types of performers:

1 the guys you don't think on first appearances should be there, but then give really stonking performances (we had some amazing gospel songs from a fairly unusual candidate.)

2 the emo guys who give really heart searing performances and kinda fit into the background but have no banter and take themselves just a little too seriously sometimes

3 the extroverts who know they like the stage and give you a bit of banter as well as a great song

4 this one really cute slightly confused canadian guy, who was just soooo extraordinarily pleased about everything and who you just wanted to hug.

5 one or two performers who held the mic too close for the high notes and wrecked the enjoyment.

but without a mix of these people the nigt might well have bummed. its crazy, there are some real regulars at this night and they're all good and obviously well liked and then there are some newcomers, but theres a real buzz around the place, althoug everyone respects whoever is on stage and the room pretty much shuts up to listen to them. its ace. and they give out free marshmallows! i'm loving that it has to be said.

So anyway, i reckon i should head to bed. gotta be up and out for 8.15 tomorrow!

empty hands

i dislike technology sometimes. iTunes doesn't want to play properly atm. blehhhh.
today was frustrating. we had a drama rehearsal scheduled for this morning, which, the hope was, everyone would turn up for and participate in. they didn't.

there were the five of us doing the workshop, then two others in the second drama group and about four other people. some people sat out (they were ill, it was ok) people came, but left to do other things.. aargh. it just wasn't fun. and the team project was draining and just blugh. then i relaxed for about twenty minutes after several phone calls to the school etc etc, checked my emails, loads of crappy ones, one quite nice one, which i actually forwarded (thats unusual btw. i don't particularly like forwards or send them often, but i'll make exceptions.) before i ran off to tea, ate my dinner in five minutes flat, went to a rather dull and pointless course comittee meeting where none of my lecturers attended (they're all in spain or something) so it was pointless pointless pointless.

and i've just been sitting around my room now. not really doing much. i should start on my essay's. think i'll start them after this.

yesterday was fun though. i went into town, spent too much money, went to the drama group at maryhill, which was really really funny, met nomy for coffee, ate some rather nice stew, went back into town, met bob, walked to his flat, had a cup of tea and went home. fell asleep. it was nice.

hope you're all doing well.

i'd recommend reading a million little pieces by james frey.

have fun.

ps i'm looking forward to the weekend when folk are coming up to glasgow.. woooooo:)

We're the pirates who don't do anything

Pete is now bald. He raised £3000 for charity (half to the church windows fund, the other half to the Yorkhill Schiehallian Childrens Cancer ward) in one big haircutting session. A pretty expensive haircut to be honest...

I have a cold.

I went to bobs after work on saturday night abd sat around his kitchen table drinking tea and smoothies and talking, mostly to Johanna and Matt, who ar actually hilarious. I was in stitches. And my tummy hurt from too much laughing by the end of the night. All in all, it was a good night.

Friday night, me and my navs girls did some baking and then stood outside the QMU from 1am to 3am giving out free coffee and tea and baked goods. it was really good fun. We got some totally random conversations, but it was all good.

So today I'm cooking for the girls. Well, Nicky and I are.

Have you ever heard the same kind of thing several times from several sources? recently, I've heard lots of sermons, discussions and notices about serving. Especially service to the poor or needy. It's not smething I would have automatically have thought of in connection with me, but it sometimes feels like God is pushing me that way.

I got up an hour before I had to this morning because I wanted to take photos for class. and I've done that now, but that only took like five minutes.. so I've been bumming around my room with nothing to do for ages.

I think I'm going to leave now. I think I'm going to lunch with Jo next sunday. should be good.

Good night.

I am letting myself go, I am letting myself go.

so, to continue the phone recovery story, Kendra had locked her phone in her room and gone to town. she then phoned me to try and get into her room and retrieve it. I couldn't do that unless she phoned Raj. Which she did so I got her phone. and thats that.

so for the rest of wednesday, I went to Byres road to give a woman a badge that I was fixing for her. I completed Bob's birthday present, and wrapped it up, I went on to the project at Maryhill which was great, I picked up Tara from the train station, ate dinner in a really nice little italian bistro cafe thing, went to the el dog gig and then came home again. All in all, it was a really good day.

Yesterday, I went to class and took Tara to the bus, got the night off work and went round to Bobs for an el dog meal. it was really nice, it was just the band, jo, gail, ronnie and me, so it was cool. Bob got a dance mat for his birthday from alan and jim so that was the main highlight of the evening, i suck at the dance mat, completely, i got like 37,000 points, whereas calum got 207,500. so you can see how much better the drummer is than me. good food good chat, in general a really good night.

so today i woke up and was all ready to go to dance (if a bit grudgingly) when i get to the tom bone building and find that our class has been cancelled, due to illness. so thats not good. at any rate we have a team project meeting and write out a quick proposal, in order to send it off to the primary schools we are hoping to work with. so at least something good came from it all.

this afternoon I'm off to meet my mum and sister in town, do a bit of shopping or something. have coffee.. the usual. so that should be good. then its off to work... boo hooo. it should be fun. well.. anyway.

so thats my plan. tomorrow, think i've got the day off and am just working the evening shift, so i don't know what i'll do all day... sunday, i might be popping over to larbert forthe morning, Pete is cutting off his dreads for charity so i think i'll go see that. coffee with nomy in the evening, unless roz wants to go to the johnathan rice gig... we'll see. at any rate it'll be monday morning soon enough and another round of team project. woopdedoo.

hope you all have enjoyable weekends.

well, if music died, i don't think i'd survive

ho hum.

yesterday, the weather was miserable, i had a annoying morning, in that i left all my notes for a class in the room afterwards and was half way to town before i realised. not supposed to be back there til next tuesday, but i suppose i should go try get them back.. grrrrr. oh yeah and then i locked myself out of my room, but the cleaners let me back in, so that was fine. anyway, i then met Bob at 1.47 at the buchanan galleries. we walked (the really long and confusing way) back to jordanhill in the pouring rain. both soaked to the skin. so i abandon him to the tea room at scotstoun to read his book while i go for an induction to the gym. which was fine. long, but good. came back to mine and Bob drank some of my free whisky. not that he likes whiskey, but hey. it was fun.

then i had navs, which was lovely and we all ate far too much chocolate.

so now i'm sitting here with nothing to do til around 1.30 uh, ok, now i have a mission.. to try and get into kendras room and get her phone.. off to find a cleaner..