I found myself face down in the ditch

hello ladies and gentlemen!

i am definitely breathing a lot easier these days. GOT A JOB!!! :) woo hoo!! :) it's about time!!!! working for Medicial Futures, (www.medicalfutures.co.uk), a non-profit group that runs the "oscars for the british medical community"... or so i'm told. the big event is in November, and i'm doing marketing for the entire process until I leave. it's a very small company, everyone's really nice, and our offices are right downtown in Oxford Circus. basically i'm surrounded by all the high-end shopping of London. everyday as i leave or go to lunch i can window shop for things i'll never, ever in 10 billion years be able to afford!!! it's GREAT! ;) it's going to be a really busy next six weeks, while the nomination period is open for the awards, after that it will settle down to planning the actual logistics of the awards. i'm told that if all goes well and i'm interested, they will fly me back for the ceremony in November! woo - hoo!

of course the first big event is a launch party to kick off the year's events... and what night is the big shindig? March 22nd, of course! and why is this important? oh it just happens to be the night Becky comes into town for her week's visit... and it's the night i have tickets to go see Gavin Degraw!!! lovely!!! :( but i'm not missing gavin, no way no how.....

speaking of concerts!.... last tuesday i saw the wonderful Mr. Rufus Wainwright at the Carling Academy in Islington... pretty similiar in size the Black Cat.... very small, that is. Rufus rocked, but sadly that was day one of my plague- experience... so i didn't enjoy it as much as i should have. THEN... this past monday, Rufus did a signing and a short performance at the Virgin Megastore at Tottenham Court Road... so of course i stopped by that!! :) he did about six songs, to mark the release of "Want Two" here..... course i got MY copy in the states when it was released there several months ago,,,, but it was cool cause i was one of like 2 people (out of a TON that came out to meet him) that was obxiously singing along since no one knew the words....

so then LAST NIGHT.... , Ray LaMontange was playing, and tina and i knew it had been sold out for a while, but i reallllllly wanted to go... and i kept telling tina 'where there's a will, there's a way' and we should try.
so by god, we went, and got in line, and acted like we had tickets, and TOTALLY GOT IN!!! :)

who rocks the house? this girl rocks the house!!!! and it was a GREAT show.... even better considering we got in for FREE, fools!!! he had a five-piece orchestra with him, sounded amazing. even better than the vienna show in january.

anyway, this weekend is still our house-warming party. looking forward to that.

~courtney

"Been so long since I seen your face
or felt a part of this human race
I've been living out of this here suitcase for way too long"
~Ray LaMontange