Thursday + Friday (sans adjectives)

A quick morning note to recap my very busy past couple of days...

Thursday: Like I said in the last entry, Thursday was our John Peel Day event! It turned out fantastically. We got close to 400 people, which is an awesome turnout as well as an excellent fundraiser! We had four bands, as well as Tallah and Kiran from Fresh Air dj-ing in between and after the sets. The 48 and Granger went on first, followed by The Dials (who had someone from a record label checking them out!) and then Aberdeen's The Needles (who just released their album, "In Search of the Needles"). The Dials are a young up and coming band, sort of like a mix between The Arctic Monkeys and The Subways -- laying down some good rock tunes. However, The Needles stole the show and put on an amazing set to a packed house. (And the icing on the cake was that the keyboardist smashed his keyboard at the end of the set. Rather an extravagant gesture, I thought, but apparently it was broken anyway...) Really ace. I highly recommend them, they make really upbeat rock tunes that just border on being totally danceable. I also helped out with the evening as well -- I got there early to help set up, compiled the guest list, and helped set up and work the door for awhile. It was really fun to be on the inside of such a cool event.

Friday: I'm sitting here covered in scrapes and bruises this morning, thanks to a wildly successful Fresher's Rugby match last night, against the Dick Vets. They're called that because the team is all students from the Royal (Dick) School of Veterinary Studies here at the university. I'm not even kidding. And the parentheses are really in the name. Anyway, it was called the Fresher's match because it was only for the new players on the team, most of which are new to rugby. (There were only about 3 of us who've played rugby before, and there were usually only two of us on the field at a time, due to lots of subbing so more people could get to play.) The match was a smashing success (pardon the pun), as we dominated the game and trounced the vets by a lot to nothing. It was only 12s with two 20 minute halves, but we were exhausted by the end. I almost scored a try, but the ref was nice to the other team and called it held up. That's ok I guess; second rowers don't really need to score all that many tries. I did make a lot of steals in the line outs and drive well in the scrum (until we moved to uncontested scrums, boo), so I'm very proud of that. And after the match, some "teambuilding" exercises!

Now I must devote this weekend to studying. Sigh...