Oooh yeah. Bed at 2:30am and work at 9am. My eyebags are loving it! Last nights gig was a blast - we played well and it was great to really crank it up after the Empress show last week. We did two brand new songs that we only put together on Monday and they seemed to go pretty well - a little stumbley but not too bad. Abdoujaparov headlined and came on after us - they were R-O-C-K!! It was the best set I’ve seen them do yet (and we’ve played with them once a year for the past three years). Les was moaning later that his guitar was out of tune, but it wasn’t an issue. They did all their Abdou-classics, plus their Let Bogans Be Bogans song - they also played a killer cover of the Buzzcock’s Ever Fallen in Love which got the first dancer up…

I have persuaded M that the thing I want most in the world for my scary looming birthday is a digital camera. All the things I could do with one just boggles my brain (keep your mind above your belt people). I could have taken shots of the show last night and posted them today! I could take pictures of my souless little office and share them with the world. I could try and do what no one has ever done before and capture a decent band photo of Bidston Moss….doubtful, but I could try! Anyway, I know what model I want and found one on ebay - naturally the closing time for the bid was during last nights show, so I primed London-based brother to bid on my behalf. It went over my limit, but not to worry. I do have an inside source that can get me one at cost price…so I think I’ll be going down that path. Huzzah!

I’m going to be house-sitting in Collingwood again until next Thursday - which I intend to treat as a mini holiday (a pathetic attempt to compensate for the time off I won’t be having over Easter). None of the admin people or my boss seem to get why I want to come in over Easter. I’ve told them it’s to finish my probability report, but in actual (and I would’ve thought, rather obvious) fact - the main point is that if I don’t come in, I don’t get paid! So in my head, I don’t really have a choice - there’s four public holidays around Easter and that’s 40% of my pay packet down the drain. I will try to console myself by bringing in a chocolate egg everyday :o(

Argh! My boss isn’t in today! I primed him with an email yesterday saying that I needed to have a chat about my complicated life and was all psyched to do it today - but he’s out at Macedon, and I’m here, blogging…with the knowledge that whether this house is going to work out or not hinges on a few major things - the letter from my boss being one of them. [Stamps] Why is this all so hard?!