Some general ramblings

Seems like ages since I last posted anything so let me try and think through what I’ve been up to since then.

Okay well I got a job. In a restaurant. With amazing pizza. Which for anyone who knows me and my obsessive food habits will understand is the perfect place for me to work besides a theatre. Now if only I could combine eating and theatre… hmmm. Let me work on that one, I’m sure there’s a play in there somewhere.

Anyway, so mostly what I’ve been doing is working, writing and a spot of chilling in the sun. Yes, it’s still sunny here. We’re having a minor heatwave this week which is awesome. I think I can go fully into autumn now as I’ve had an actual summer. I even have the tan lines to prove it. My legs have even started to look less white and my legs never take colour. Sorry Glasgow, I love you but your weather sucks. And you have neds.

Which brings me to another point. People here are so freaking nice. It’s a little creepy. Even the drunks that hang around street corners looking for beer money.  We have one that sits outside the liquor store at the end of my block (aka the offy down the street). He says hi and bye to everyone who goes in, and they all say hi and bye back. No one glares at him and walks away and he doesn’t yell abuse in return. It’s the oddest thing. Just the other day I went in and he had a puppy with him. As I was going past he asked ‘do you like my new girlfriend?’ and it was genuinely funny. I laughed and said ‘she’s lovely’. There was none of that fake laugh to escape the scary drunk who might stab you if you don’t. Bizarre eh? It's like my entire world order has been turned upside down.

Other than that I’ve just been generally excited about such rock n roll things as finding out the library here has a great drama section and getting my theatre geekery on. Related to which is the Fringe started here yesterday for the next 10 days, as did Next to Normal which I am DYING to see (Harriet-this is where I shall be spending the money you gave me before I left). For anyone who doesn’t know what that show is, get yourself onto their website and have a look. Amazers.

In other news, the chefs in work seem to have nicknamed me ‘Yo Scotland’ and ‘Scottish’. Original? No, but I’m okay with that. Sometimes the classics are the best. And it’s certainly better that what I was nicknamed by my loving friends from school. I hope you guys know that you scarred me for life and that you’re the reason why I’m the fucked up mess I am today. Fact.