The Week of Silence

Sorry, everyone, for being so remiss in updating you all to my every doing. In my defence, this is how I felt this week:



Yep, my bag lady reputation is unrequiteably international. Hoo-rah. (It only works it if you say it like Jamie Foxx in "Jarhead.")

SO I've done lots of stuff this past week, like:
-Climb up Arthur's Seat to watch the fireworks across the city for Bonfire Night, and fortunately climb back down before the brush fire (caused by a stray firework getting blown into the dry gorse. "No DUH" say the Californians.)
-Ended up in the wrong lecture (NOT AGAIN! I swear the universe is shifting on me as the days get shorter...)
-Had my first radio broadcast on Fresh Air (Aherm, if you missed it, you can catch it every Tuesday on www.FreshAir.org.uk from 9-10.30pm GMT!)
-Been in battle with a nasty cold that's trying to convince my lungs to escape from my chest via coughing fits
-Ran headfirst into a Dundee Uni player during a rugby game in an attempt to do something useful (instead giving myself some nasty headaches); but we still won 12-0, so all's well that ends well, eh?
-Attended the Edinburgh Uni Men's Rugby Ball with the ladies' team, in all its vomitous squalor (them, not us)
-Shared a lovely (and gratis) evening meal with the lovely ladies of my rugby team, (pre-men's rugby ball). It was much more civilized.
-Err, and lots of other stuff I'm sure!

But when not feeling like crap, I'd say I clean up quite well! For contrast, here's some of us ladies at the rugby ball (note the terrible lack of sobriety in the background):



Coming up in the next few days (so you can pre-emptively live vicariously through me) I'm going to the Scotland v. Romania Rugby Match at Murrayfield (THE Scottish Rugby Stadium), playing a rugby game in Glasgow, and then going to see Art Brut in Glasgow. Quite a bit of rugby and quite a bit of Glasgow! Sometimes I wonder what city I live in!

Last thing, I swear. I've also discovered the TV show Little Britain which is hilarious. I highly recommend it, it's a great show about Brits spoofing Brits. (You can find links to it here, but shhhh...) The best quote? "Fancy a holiday and all the seats to the Arctic are booked? Why not try Scotland!" Ahh yes, winter is soon to be upon us here.