Busy Busy

[andrewducker]

I'm sitting in the Edinburgh University social space at Poterrow, waiting for Julie to come back from an appointment, having taken the day off from work so that I could give her a hand organising PhD stuff.  My first time entirely "off" in over a week.  It feels rather nice :->

A quick roundup of where I've been all week:
Saturday: Australian Pink Floyd.
Simply _amazing_.  Note perfect, except for the occasonal Aussie reference.  It's the 30th anniversary of The Wall, so we got the entirety of the double album, complete with stage sets, costume changes and video backdrop.  Very, very impressive.  (You'll have to excuse the camera-phone-in-the-dark quality of the pics)




Oh, and I arrived back from that and went out dancing until 3am with meaningrequired.

Sunday: The Zoo
Which was a bit chilly, but we got to see chimpanzees, penguins. rhinos and a sleeping polar bear.




And then we came home and made Chicken Korma, which was a first for both of us.  Lovely, quick, and with much more control over the flavour than you get when you buy it from a restaurant.  We'll be doing that again.

Monday: Watched Clerks 2 with marrog and erindubitably.  Which had posibly the finest usage of bestiality interspecies erotica in a motion picture since, well, things I probably shouldn't talk about in a public place.

Tuesday: Gaming.  Fighting our way through the zombie-filled halls of the Underdark.

Wednesday: Waiting for Godot
With Professor X and Magneto Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen.  Plus Simon Callow.  I left baffled but happy.  It's a delightfully odd play, with lots of symbolism to read, ooh, pretty much anything into.


Thursday was the penultimate badminton session, and then pub with Meredith, cairmen and erindubitably, with accordingly guest-starring and henriksdal turning up as the credits rolled I was heading home.

Today I'm helping Julie out with her PhD and then we're heading to Glasgow, where we have a cheap hotel booked (huzzah for lastminute.com!) so that we can be awake bright and early to wander around town before:

Saturday: Cirque de Soleil's Quidam.  Which looks very promising.


Sunday: Seeing marrog and erindubitably for movie-watching.  Possibly Teeth, which cairmen referred to last night as "a very odd superhero origin story".  I look forward to disagreeing with him again having seen it for a second time.

Next week should be _much_ quieter.  I'm rather looking forward to it.

Comments

[astartesyriaca.livejournal.com]

Hey there... just thought I'd mention that there is a fantastic exhibit on at GoMA called "ShOUT!", and of course the Dr Who exhibit is on at the Kelvingrove. Enjoy the show!

[andrewducker]

Thanks!

[andrewducker]

thank you!

[dreema.livejournal.com]

they're supposed to be moving Mercedes up to the highland wildlife park this summer, into the current wolf enclosure. Should give her a lot more room to sleep in :)

[andrewducker]

Yeah - there was information up about that. I'd love to visit the wildlife park, but it's a tad tricky without a car.

[dreema.livejournal.com]

We'll maybe have to organise a trip up at some point, I'm sure a few of us with cars could take up some that dont. It's quite a trek though, about 2.5 hours from Stirling. Definately worth it on a nice day though. When the sun's out, it's a nice view

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Quidam envy!

[paddie-gal.livejournal.com]

Rich and I went to see Quidam last month - outstanding.

[sterlingspider.livejournal.com]

I looked at the penguin picture and couldn't help but parse the nests as "food bowls with extra special treat" at first glance.

[babydyke-82.livejournal.com]

Sorry for running off after badminton without coming to the pub or paying you- mini domestic drama llama!

Do you know if anyone picked up a blue St Andrews Uni hoodie? Think I left it in the hall.

Enjoy cirque de soleil!

[andrewducker]

Didn't see the hoodie I'm afraid. Did you try calling the centre?

And don't worry about drama, you can sort me on Thursday1