Every Day is Election Day

Spent yesterday at home, shivering me timbers and getting my sneeze on (atchoo, atchoo, at-chew, atishoooo, etc… ).

I was stuck to the bed, realising I’ve forgotten how good I am at feeling sorry for myself. Spent the morning listening to Ray, reading Q and Time and doing my all time favourite thing in the world: make lists. In doing so, I was reminded by an article I read in Time late last year (fear not, full realisation of my anal nature frightens even me at this stage! I heart lists!).

I disgress. Time management has become an absolutely vital aspect of our lives this year and I can juggle tasks and appointments with the best of them… with a little help from our friends at BlackBerry, Google Calendar,and while I’m at it, a big shout out to Giselle in the Students’ Union for organising us in the day job!

Duvet day also allowed me to:

1. Watch Yves Saint Laurent’s funeral online
2. Work a little on a new project that Gav and I have going on… a ucdlife website
3. Read my favourite blogs (see the Blogroll to the right!)
4. Study. Which I loved, sadly enough. Tort is the subject du jour!

While y’all are waiting for me to get fully better and come out and play, do yourselves a favour and entertain yourselves with the following:

Watch: (it’s a good un for all you law types!)

Laugh at: http://www.rickygervais.com/chimpanzee_karl.php

And finally, listen to: http://www.myspace.com/crystalcastles/

Some good friends of mine from home in Kilkenny are gigging in Whelans tonight, and I’m gutted I can’t be there (we’re still in Bratislava…), so treat the following as a plug to add my support to their cause! Saving J have been on the road for a while now and are well worth a look! The band formed in late 2005 and comprises Sean Redmond (Lead Vocals. rhythm guitar), Paul Hindle (Drums, backing vocals), Liam Redmond (Lead Guitar) and new addition Graham Hynes (Bass guitar).

How time has moved on… Paul was my date for my Debs all those moons ago… No, there are no photos… I hope…

We booked our tickets for the Kilkenny Cat Laughs festival earlier today. Regrettably due to work/study/Croker concerts/Mini Marathon commitments we’re not going to be able to volunteer/work at the festival like previous years, but it’ll be fun to enjoy some laughs from the crowd! Consecutive years have been spent doing artist liaison, tinkering with lights, cataloguing ticketing and such, but this year we’re looking forward to heckling and enjoying the jollity with the best of them.

On our list to see are:

Lee Mack: (watch out for the mispronounciation of ‘chicken’ at the start!)

Arj Barker: (with a bit of Google antics for Reilly)

David O’Doherty:

We had the nice fortune of sharing a pizza with DOD and his missus earlier this year, nicer folks you couldn’t get. Hilarious to boot.

Roll on the June Bank Holiday weekend!

I haven’t slept very well since last Sunday… though not because of anything wrong, or anxiety, or illness (well, mostly, anyway), or having eaten some dodgy, undercooked Slovak cuisine. What’s had me up late since last Sunday is the fact that I cannot get this song out of my head:

It’s called Fascination and it’s by Alphabeat, and it’s terrifically amazing. It’s got that semi-syncopated chromatic backbeat going on (listen to the hook from Rooney’s Where Did Your Heart Go Missing to figure out what I mean) - the sticky, creeping kind that sticks in the back of your mind to the point where stirring a coffee-cup reminds you of it. It’s a great track and one that will definitely rise higher than the #23 it currently occupies on the Irish singles chart.

Further listening includes their single Boyfriend - they’re basically the new Ting Tings…