Abigail Brady

Tuesday: Cafe Scientifique. Interesting, but aimed at an audience that wasn't me. Seem to have agreed to help with running it a bit more. Eek.

Wednesday: Visited parents.

Thursday: Swan and Rushes pub quiz. This was pretty good, although has themed rounds that we weren't much good at. We're not sure whether we came last or not.

Friday: snore

Saturday: vjbseven and qfyd came round in evening, and we tried a strange new form of alcohol. that turned out to have bananas in it. oh well. went to psychocandy, became very drunk, had good time, then became tired and went home.

Sunday: saw The Corpse Bride, with people. this was generally enjoyable, although rather sane for a tim burton film.

to 'trib last night, with vjbseven. not many people there, but saw lady_miamew, merlina, danalkaelra and neomix.

music downstairs was interesting. instead of the feared ska/punk night, we got all manner of (mainstream) rock through the ages, from Bill Haley to T. Rex to Iron Maiden to Bon Jovi to GNR to NIN to Green Day. danced lots, and upstairs too.

now rather the worse for wear...

off to Firefly this evening. should be there around 7pm. come and imbibe.

Well, that has been an interesting day.

Day 2 at the festival. I saw the end of the Traces, Hot Chip, the Editors, Corb Lund (who were excellent - and any band that has a song called We've Been Drinking Beer All Night, It's Time To Switch To Whiskey or similar, and call it a spiritual, is OK by me), The Magic Numbers (who I ended up queuing for over an however for them to sign my copy of their album), Thirteen Senses, The Bees, KT Turnstall.

After this I decided I was knackered and headed to somewhere that is in relation quiet and comfortable (ie psychocandy/nowhere). this seemed quite poorly attended but the crowd that was out was good. Spent time split between the floors.

Met annomalley for first time in real life. landvaettir was looking resplendent with her new skirt and glowy balls. codezombie tried to persuade me to come to fools and heroes. two people commented that i was boringly dressed : yes, for i had been to a festival, and don't really think that, e.g. long velvet dresses go well with mud.

if anyone has found a purple umbrella at the attik, it is mine!

and then came home early. i have been out/drinking 8 days of the last 9 (including today), and it is starting to show.

tomorrow has a bit of an earlier end to proceedings. the last act, Patty Smith, will be on at 21.15.

i met maxiie at jacey's after work today, after she did a drive-by adding of me on monday, having apparently seen me on retribution_lei. after this, her friend Ash (who is not on livejournal but has promised to get one [update: sushi_radical]) arrived and eventually they both tempted me to go to Retribution (well, not really Ret but downstairs at same place). danced a bit and then came home.

this is a very bad thing for me to have done what with me not having had a proper night's sleep since tuesday last week.

however much interesting and useful conversations and comparing of notes took place. so all good!

now i must wash my hair.

Back from Merciless which was fun I think. Didn't dance much. Apparently gin and tonics glow wicked under UV.

yay, my circadian rhythm must be screwed now. but barbeque for breakfast = good.

psychocandy quite fun despite reduced turnout.

newspapers still haven't phoned me.

i just got back home and i can just see the glow of daylight starting (is there a word for that?). haven't done that in a while (but then its not always midsummer).

so. went to pride yesterday (Saturday) with alexa_robinson. was quite fun, especially Rosie Lugosi, the lesbian vampire filk-singer. whilst there met up with avstrangegirl and alexa_jay, but then both the alexas left us... managed to persuade avstrangegirl to come to retrib, so we met up with lady_miamew at jaceys and then bumped into eldritchreality at retribution. was ok, certainly beat moping in my room as i was planning to.

i am 26 now. it feels much like being 25 was.

It has been a veritable cluster of birthdays. Yesterday's was a strange non-livejournal person's one, and I got drunk and ate Indian food but not in that order. I did resolve to damn well go to Quebec on Friday some day when it's not being used for Intelekt, on the grounds that maybe then the lesbians will spot me. Does anyone fancy coming with me?

And then, today, it was jisha78's birthday, and everybody went to the Pump and Tap and celebrated. I have a feeling that someone will describe me by saying "abigailb was amusingly drunk". Which is probably true. I will only say I am glad that Easyjet don't accept calls from mobile numbers (or possibly just me).

to the Orange Tree and Intelekt this evening, and then back early because of tired/headache. (yes you did catch me yawning). half-heartedly danced to one track and then gave up.

pondering a little shopping trip to Brum tomorrow.