Little Update

Quickly! I'm falling asleep here, but I thought I'd catch you (and myself) up with the past few days and a bit of the future...

First of all the rugby team won today (without my aid), so we're moving onto the next round of BUSA (the quarterfinals). It'll be a tough game, with something to prove, since we lost against the same team, Leeds Metropolitan, last year in the same round by 3 points. We've got fewer starting players injured going into the game than last year, hopefully myself included. I'll see what the physio says tomorrow; last week she said if I kept improving so quickly I could go back to training (but not playing). They're one and the same in my mind, I'll see what I can convince her of. A longer rugby recap will follow later, including the Tour in Devon, Scotland v. Ireland game, and The Knackekering of My Ankle.

I also went to a killer band night tonight, put on by none other than us at Fresh Air. It was a charity night for Comic Relief (I cannot be bothered to put in all the links, so google this stuff yourself), coordinated with something like 17 student radio stations across the country. We had some local bands perform: Nick Trepka (who gets mad props for covering The Stooges' "I Wanna Be Your Dog" acoustically on the balalaika), Edinburgh's own My Tiny Robots, and the Glaswegian bands Futuro and The Hussys.

I've also found a definite place to stay if I want to stay the summer. It's with my friend, Tim, from the radio station, and one of his current flatmates. It'd be pretty convenient, as their flat is only half a block from where I live now, so I wouldn't have to move far. Yeah... I'm thinking of staying the summer here in Edinburgh. I've decided to decide at the end of March, and seeing as it's only the Ides, I've got a few days at least. If I do stay, I'll miss you... but come visit! It's much warmer and sunnier here in the summer, plus August has the Festival.

I'm off to Dublin this weekend for St. Patty's day with my friend, Stephanie who I'm going to Eastern Europe with. We both keep forgetting that our trip to Ireland is so close, since we booked it so long ago (October for her, January for me, after one of her flatmates bailed on the trip). I am very excited about our trip to Eastern Europe... it's getting closer and closer. We've had to re-route a bit, based on the best way to get to Sarajevo, so now our route goes like this: fly to Bucharest (from London), train to Brasov (middle of Romania) and spend a few days there doing day trips, a few days in Budapest where we'll hopefully be able to meet up with Jitka, a few days in Sarajevo (most direct way there is train from Budapest, so that's why we had to rearrange the trip), then to Dubrovnik (Croatia) to start off the second week of the trip, and finishing our week of relaxing in Croatia with a couple days in Zagreb and Pula before we fly back to London and catch the train back to Edinburgh. Whew! Like I said, we tried to plan it with the busy sight-seeing part of the trip first and a nice week to relax on the Dalmatian Coast second. Changing the itinerary did mean we had to cut out Vienna, but oh well. Another time.

Other travel plans in the works = a few days stint in London when Brittany-from-UCLA (that's how she'll be known in this publication from here on out) comes to visit, a few days/long weekend in June at a rugby 7s tournament in Venice, Paris oo-la-la some weekend... eventually... when I find the time, after exams. Which, by the way, is May 8th! Yes, be jealous, be very jealous!