Categories: glasgow, random, concerts
Tags: essays, concert, laptop, internet, Glasgow
Date: 14 April 2007 23:29:39
This is the first entry ever made on my shiny new laptop :) It's very shiny. And new.
Have had a bit of a manic couple of days - I left the final bit of essay marking till the last minute (Shurely not? - Ed) but still had to type my comments up which always takes longer than I think it will, so I ended up in work yesterday at 7am (horrors). I still haven't finished typing them, but there are only about 10 to go, and all the ones which I need lecturers to look at are with them now, so I still feel a bit of a sense of achievement. The full relief will be on Tuesday, when I type up the last few and then that's it till Christmas - hooray!
I could have finished it, except that I'd already arranged to meet Dave (of CartoonChurch fame) and maddie (of wiblog fame) as they were up in Scotland on holiday this week. After lunch we went on a tour of the Glasgow School of Art (will do a link and put up some photos when I'm back home with my handy copy-and-paste code) which was rather good I thought, though sadly we weren't allowed to take pictures inside. The building is another of Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpieces, I really liked it - I am lucky living in such a great place, there's so much to see.
Then last night I wended my way south and am at HD's for the weekend. Much of today was spent sorting out the laptop - he's very patient with me, I'm *so* clueless, but I now have the internet sorted out and iTunes installed (hooray!) so hopefully I won't break it.
This evening we were extremely kulcha-d - I'd wanted to go to the cinema, to see "Other People's Lives" (already top of the to see list before yesterday's text from girlinthegarret who'd just seen it and reckons it's 'stonking' (and I quote)), but it's not on down here, so we went to the Riverfront Arts Place/Theatre thingy, and saw the chamber group from the Academy of St Martin in the Fields orchestra. Very good they were too. I particularly liked the Schubert Octet, probably because it featured a clarinet, and so it reminded me of how much fun it is playing in that sort of group.
And now we're back at HD's, in matching armchairs, both sitting here typing away on our laptops. I'm *so* embarrassed. But then, as he pointed out, we did meet on the internet, so I suppose it's to be expected. I somehow suspect what he's typing/programming is a lot cleverer than what I'm typing (obviously some people might think my blog is a masterpiece and indicative of genius and massive intellect, but I'm not holding my breath). I looked earlier at some calculations (or something) he'd been doing and realised that there's a whole huge section of his brain that I have absolutely no hope of ever ever ever understanding.