67 Posts Into My Scottish Adventure...

I couldn't just leave my blog to fester with 66 posts. Too much potential for evil.

Anyway, so much has been happening, I've gotten practically no sleep for the past week. Tenants has been on air for a week, meaning we're only about one fourth of the way through its broadcast. That's right, only 6 out of a whopping 20 episodes have aired. I often wonder what we were thinking, taking on a project this big. Tallah and I have been really busy with editing the episodes, adding in music and sound effects, tacking on intros and outros, finding missing lines, ... and basically not sleeping. Since I had four exams last week it's my turn to go the extra mile on the soap this week while she catches up with her work. Whew.

So yeah, school? What's that? Kidding. Like I said, last week was a gauntlet of exams, with Animal Biology on Monday, a class test for Genetics Wednesday, lab exam for Animal Bio Thursday, and Oceanography on Friday. It was hell, but at least it's over now. Soon as I get the chance to catch up on my sleep I'll be ok.... I have one more exam, the final for Genetics, on May 8th, and then I'm finished! I'm done relatively early in comparison to some of my classmates; the exam period officially ends May 25 and I do know some sad souls with an exam that day.

Rugby season is coming to a close here, and we have just one game left. Our last premier (club) league game was yesterday, against the Murrayfield Wanderers ("Wandies"), which was rough. They're a good club side, and very "street smart", as the ref called it. What is 'street smart' in rugby, you ask? Little things that aren't always technically legal if the ref sees them. Like, say, tripping me while I'm running to catch up with play across the field or punching one of our locks after the breakdown's been blown up. If you don't know rugby lingo... you probably have no idea what I'm talking about. Don't worry about it -- they play dirty, is what I'm trying to say. Unpleasant. Ok, you're going to beat us by a substantial margin anyway, why bother being nasty? It just doesn't make rugby any fun to play. Anyway, we've got one game left, and a rather important one at that: it'll be the playoff to determine if we can move up into the BUSA Premier North League, instead of staying in SUSA (Scotland). It'd be awesome if we win, we would get to play at a much higher tier next season and probably improve loads. Not that I'm going to be there or anything, but still.

The weather here has been amazing, by Scotland standards. It's gone from LA-winter-like to Norcal-summer-like weather; cool in the mornings and evenings but warm and sunny during the day. Still a bit nippy for shorts unless you're running around and you pretty much always need a jumper or coat for when the wind picks up. Nonetheless, it's a big improvement! Also, spring is in gorgeous bloom, with a new bunch of flower or tree starting to blossom just about every week. Right now it's the cherry trees, which I love, so large chunks of The Meadows (and other, smaller green spaces around town) are lined with pale-pink blossoms. It's just gorgeous. Sigh, spring is here, though summer seems to be a ways off.

And speaking of summer, I'll fill you in on my plans, since they're nearing completion every day. Sorry, no, that makes it sound like I'm some sort of mad scientist or something. Anyway, like I've said before, I'm going to be living in Edinburgh for the summer. This means I get to stay and help Fresh Air cover the Edinburgh Festival in August and (boo, drudgery) get a job. Well, can't live for free I guess, huh? Would be nice, though. Things have changed slightly with the living situation and I'm staying at my friend Kiran's flat, with him, our friend Heather, and one of his existing flatmates. Plus a bunch of my other friends will be living really nearby in the same neighborhood. It's going to be really fun.

Enough from me, I need to eat some dinner and get to editing the next episode of Tenants. More later! Once I have more energy I'll put up photos galore. I promise.