February Again

Well, this is going to be my second post in one month. WOW!
I sit in the studio at uni just now very much looking forward to going and doing talk in a couple of hours. Ok, that's a massive lie, I don't look forward to it at all, and am hoping it will be over by half three, which means I can run to the station in plenty of time to get the ten to four train instead of the half five one. Actually, if it's not finished, I might just run away and make sure I get that train anyway.
In other news, I went to see SixStarHotel at Nice N Sleazys the other week, which was great. Loudness and smallness make for a good gig. Very good.
I've not actually been upto much else recently. How exceedingly dull. Off down to Dumfries for the weekend, and playing bass at Centrestage tomorrow evening. Bring on the ROCK!

February

Ok, so my posts are slightly less regular than my brother's, who somehow manages to find time to post on his blog pretty much every single day. But none the less, here is a post from me, who knows what it's going to contain.
So once again it's that wonderul time of the year when the six nations is on, and therefore weekends are mostly devoted to watching three games of rugby on tv and shouting at it whenever england get any points. Stupid Wilkinson. Unfortunately I only managed to watch two of the games this past weekend, but these were the Scotland and Ireland games, which were good. Yesterday I even went and watched the Ireland game round at flat 44 on their massive screen projector thing. Good times. I ate a steak pie too. All in all, yesterday was a very good day.
Not much else has been happening of late. I played at a ceilidh on thursday night for the CU, which was great fun, but I was ridiculously sweaty and disgusting after it. I did record most of the songs though, and Jillian took some good photos of us while we were playing. These are the first known pictures of us playing at a ceilidh. Someone else out there may have some if they have been spying on us. Or if I've just not been paying attention, which isn't particularly unlikely.
Went to s birthday party on friday night for a short while too. There was much pudding - not really surprising seeing as it was a pudding party. Yet another chocolate fondue was there, but I was very restrained and managed not to eat to much of it. I did eat quite a few strawberries though. Mmmmmm. They were good.
Didn't stay at the party to late though, because the next day I had to get up at half six, to get the half seven megabus to the ever interesting DUNDEE!
At this point, I think I shall take the chance to go on a small rant, mostly aimed at Megabus. I don't like megabus. I don't see the big attraction. Ok, so they are better than the buses in Dumfries that you can get into the town, but they aren't that great. We sat upstairs once again, and once again when I was up the stairs and stood up properly, my head went very much into the ceiling of the bus, and I had to crouch down A LOT in order not to get carpet burn on my head. And why on earth do they have carpet on the ceiling? IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE. Stupid buses. They don't have nearly enough legroom either, which is really annoying when you're going to Dundee. My legs were really quite sore by the time we got off the stupid bus.
The day in Dundee was good though, we were at the last CU leaders training day of the year. It was a good day, and got to see leaders from the other CU's again, which was class. And then when we came back, we managed to get a lift in the mini-bus that Caley had with them. IT WAS GREAT! No stupid megabus to put up with on the way back. We only took one wrong turning too, which was very quickly rectified by our experienced minibus driver.
Then Sunday was pretty class, church, lunch at flat 44, watched the rugby at flat 44, had dinner at flat 44, back to church, then back to Dennistoun for tea and other such drinks at the girls flat. Good times.
So that pretty much brings you up to date with what I've been upto. Not many plans for the next couple of weeks, just got a ceilidh to play at, and I should probably do a bit of work for uni at some point too.
Anyway, off to do work!

January

It's been a long time since I updated, and this post is only going to be short, as I'm going to start watching a film in roughly 4 minutes after I am finished listening to what can only be described as "angry-classical music". It's good.
Anyway, Christmas and New Year were good, dunno why I put all those capital letters in there though. Good relaxing time during the holidays, but also included a whole load of revision, a 5 hour visit to Glasgow, and working for 2 hours in the bookshop. I served three customers. It was fun.
Now I'm back at uni and am having a very easy first week back. It's wednesday, and I've had 7 hours so far this week. By the end of tomorrrow I will have had 9 hours. Then I have another six on Friday, which is a bit rubbish. But then I'm getting the train home for the weekend. So hoorah.
Anyway, that's three or four minutes, so it's film, time. Goodbye.

November

It's been far to long since I last updated this thing. Something in the order of six and a half weeks I do believe, as this is the middle of week 10, and I last updated in week 3 if I remember correctly. It seems a long time, but it's flown by. It's hard to believe that I only have two and a bit weeks of classes left before the holidays. In that time I also have to finish 4 assignments, play at 5 ceilidhs, go to all my usual lectures, revise for a test, visit dumfries for a day, and find time to sleep somehow. Fun.
As I said about the ceilidhs, there are 5. 4 of them are next week, 4 nights in a row. Should be really good banter, and I'm sure we'll be really good by the end of them all. Lots of booking requests coming in too, including someone who asked if we would beable to play at their wedding, which was a bit mental. They hired someone more expensive though. Ha.
Not much else been happening, just lots and lots and lots and lots of work, trying to find time to relax, seeing friends, a bit more work, and some eating. I taught Colin to play risk one night too. I was impressed seeing as I had only played it once before then. It went surprisingly well.
So, only two and a half weeks until I return home for Christmas, which should be good. I've not been home in quite a while. I'm also getting to go paintballing on Saturday, which should be brilliant. Take out work-induced stress on people wearing boiler-suits and helmets. Sweet.
Anyway, that's all I can think of and be bothered to write just now, so I am in fact going to go to bed. At 10pm. Sweet.

Back at uni

Ok, so I haven't actually updated properly since I've been back at uni. So here goes a quick guide to what I've been upto.

Fresher's Week

I moved in. My flat is so much better than last year. There was much partying and catching up with people, and messing about musically. An open mic night, a CU thing, and a ceilidh were the main musical things. The ceilidh was good. I played at it. Hire our band for stuff. We want to get hired.
Not much else really happened in fresher's week. Played a bit of pool. Moved PA equipment a lot. Messed about. Got my timetable for this year. It looked bad.

Week 1

The timetable looked a lot better after I had been to a couple of classes. It dropped from 26 hours a week to about 18 most weeks. Unfortunately lots of assignments to do this semester too. Had a couple of CU meetings too, which went quite well, and the music went well too. I had a massive band for the Thursday night, and it was good. Well, it was fun, and I enjoyed it. Whether or not it was good isn't really for me to judge. I saw Colin one day as well, but I can't remember which day it was. Perhaps Monday. Perhaps not. It was good anyway. Went for coffee. Heard abotu the many failings of his flat. It was fun.

Week 2

Not had many classes so far this week, and it's Wednesday night. And only got two hours tomorrow, but got a bit of work to do too. And need to make sure all the music for CU at night is fine. Got a couple of freshers helping with the music tomorrow, so hopefully that'll be ok. Sure it will be, one studied music. And isn't acutally a fresher. But I'm sure it'll be fine.
As for the rest of the week, I'm headed home for the weekend on Friday afternoon. It should be a nice wee trip. Then back up on Sunday afternoon, and a bit of praise and prayer at night in the west end. Should be good.

Update y'all soon. And hire our ceilidh band.
www.strathclydecu.co.uk/strings.htm

Strings Attached

Just to let y'all know about Strings Attached, the ceilidh band that I be a part of. If you would happen to want to hire us for anything then just drop us an e-mail at strings_attached@hotmail.co.uk, or text me, or something. And we'll have a website at some point too.

Woot, a PC

Wahey, guess who might be getting a PC? That's right, me!!
A rather old and cheap pc, but a pc all the same. Hopefully even with a 19" monitor!!
Oh yeah, bring it on!
And yes, I know I'm a Mac man, but who am I to turn down a very, very cheap pc?
It can always be done up to be good :o)

That is all for now.
Ariba.

Project20. Again.

Ok, so Project20 is progressing nicely. Ish. It even has it's own website now, so go and pay it a visit here and tell me how good it looks/get in contact with me/have a listen. And then I'll have to let my brother know what you say seeing as he's the one that made the site for me. Thanks to him.
That is all for now.