You know I wish we had more time

WOW am i totally not in the mood to work today!!! so tired. have i mentioned that i completely hate the climate here? a good couple days in the sun would do me wonders. the glamour of "living in london" has worn off to the point where it's painfully clear that i'm in an okay job in a city with crappy weather.... if it weren't for all the british accents i might be fooled into thinking i was still in DC. well, the accents and Big Ben... that's kind of a reality check in itself. haha.

i've basically resigned myself to being sick the entire time i'm here. when i'm not coughing up gross stuff then my nose won't stop running and vice versa. it's so great. one of my london friends has been here for six years and said she spent most of the first year being sick, thought it had something to do with getting used to the new climate/germs.

spent a crazy weekend in dublin with tina and gordon and the extended mitchell crew. saw lots of pubs and many ATMs (had to get euros - no pounds in ireland!) and talked to approx 1 billion friendly irish people. lots of drama ensued, a weekend for the recordbooks, no doubt. i could probably write for three hours about all the drama an still only manage to skim the surface, but i'm contractually obligated and morally obliged to keep my thoughts to a minimum. suffice it to say, my faith in humankind has a big, fat, seething bulletwound right in the middle, and will take some major surgery to be restored. i think it's amazing that anyone manages to trust anyone else, given all the vast amounts of deception people inflict upon one another every day. *sigh*

found a 2nd favorite irish artist (behind d.rice)... paddy casey! i forced davey mitchell to play 'saints & sinners' approx. 1 billion times over the weekend, and we bought the CD at the airport on our way back. he's playing next week here in london... and you KNOW i've already bought my ticket!

so i've found a new favorite UK television show... tuesday nights on the BBC1 (i think?) called 'Hustle' ... it's about a bunch of con-artists and it's hilarious! many thanks to stuart and gail bringing us our new illegal TV set and it's wonderful 4 different channels. love it. i was able to watch 'top of the pops' when hanson was on the weekend after i saw them at the Mean Fiddler.

got really excited to see that there's a live keane CD available in stores here... they rocked out the show last week at the Royal Albert Hall, can't wait for them to release a live DVD. although i still think they should have opened for Rufus on this last tour, and not vice-versa.

i'm so excited about the new DMB cd i'm about to go crazy.

keep on rockin' in the free world,
courtney


"You know I wish we had more time
You know I think it was a crime
The things we waste trying to not waste our time"
~p.casey