Ha! Oh man, you had to be there...

As soon as we walked in, George was on stage. In his element as always - yeah, singing a completely different note to what was being played, and doing every hand and shoulder action under the sun - and every time he walked off, he gave the "Just George" stance.

See if you can picture it: he's about 5' 5", skinny, dark spiky hair (well, the areas that aren't bald yet), an eyebrow ring and a mouth that's constantly open. Add to that the hands that appear on either side of his face with the fingers wide open, like he's doing "jazz hands", and there you have it. The "Just George" look.

That guy just makes me laugh myself silly.

Some folk that went on stage were really, really good. There was one guy, Paul I think his name was, who we actually mistook for the original recording: we thought they'd put a cd on to give everyone a break!

Others, of course, were just frightening. Like the 60-year-old woman who started to strip and felt the urge to launch herself off the stage onto the poor guy waiting the tables. Bet she's traumatised him for life now. Actually, come to think of it, it's probably just as well he's gay already or it probably would have been a serious life-altering scare :-P

You're wishing you were there now, right? *grin*

News from mum:

Dad's in england, he left early this morning due to a phone call late last night. Uncle Martin had a stroke and doctors don't think he's gonna make it. I'm not sure, but I think I remember hearing that it's not his first stroke.

It's a nine hour drive to Martin's end of the country, and even though dad left early this morning, it's still unlikely he's there yet.

Another family funeral.

First one that I won't be going to though. Didn't know uncle Martin all that well: actually, only met him once - at my grandfather's funeral.

The last week or so has been different. Everything seemed to be getting steadily whiter. My world went chalk white, then grey.

Getting out of bed has been so hard.

I'm still not really in the mood to do anything, but I'm getting better. Actually started sketching last night. It's been ages since I picked up a pencil, let alone put it to paper.

Still, just because I pulled off some sketches doesn't mean I enjoyed myself while doing it. It was kinda just to prove that I still could, I think.

I'm guessing I need to look out my St. John's Wart.

Decided I'm not going after all.

Can't be bothered, really. Might go on friday..might not.

To be honest, I can't be bothered doing anything.

...I got a phonecall to meet friends at the library to work on that assignment. When I got there 15 minutes later, they'd seen their results and were too depressed to work.

We went for chicken burgers and chatting instead. Then into town - they showed me the local art store (yey!) and wandered a little.

Don't know yet if I'm going to the kareoke tonight...haven't quite made up my mind.

No?

Okay, I'll tell you: I bought a heater.

It's freezing and one of my housemates, who shall remain nameless (it's the french one!) has taken it upon herself to break the portable heater we normally use for drying the washing. Either that, or she just doesn't wanna freeze and has decided to say it's broken.

Either way, my clothes won't dry without help from something.

..was interesting, if nothing else.

We've been informed that our marks for module one will b displayed publicly on the internet at some point tomorrow. What joy.

We also discovered that we weren't given certain information, data and graphs before the Christmas break that we need to do this assignment!

Oh..one other thing: according to one of our lecturers, "sheep are better treated" than us.

...I had my scanner down here with me. There's two reasons for this wish:

1 : I have class work I want scanned onto this machine so I can play with it (want to make comparisons and it's easier on here)

2 : I have new sketches I wanna add to my collection

...a goldfish and a parrot went on a date how would the evening end?

*lol*

What would the kids be like? More fish than bird or vice versa?

Gills? Beaks? Feathers or Scales? Wings or fins?

Am I just insane?