What Do You Do?

I have good and bad news.

The bad news is my pants (or trousers, as the natives insist I call them) no longer fit me.

The good news is that the reason they no longer fit me is because I've lost around 5kgs in the last month and a half - and that included my trip to Italy!

Part of it is from improving my nutrition, I've been pretty good lately about saying no to bad things, but the biggest change has come from the regular visits to the gym. Five times a week, in fact! Most of that time has just been undirected cardio work, but last week I was introduced to interval training which, I'm assured, will make a massive difference in a far shorter time. We'll see...

That's not all I've been doing, of course. Since arriving back a couple of weeks ago I've been to Birmingham for a fantastic night of music, courtesy of vile evils, EMF and Carter USM - followed by another night of EMF and Carter USM in Brixton the next night. This coming weekend is the final gig of the year, this time featuring a fully reunited Ned's Atomic Dustbin and vile evils again.

I also went to see Avenue Q with Lee, Margaret, Ben and a handful of other people. If you can imagine Sesame Street grown up, you can picture what it was like - and I enjoyed it immensely. Although the sex scene between the puppets was funny as hell, it wasn't quite a shock after seeing something similar in Team America. The songs were hilarious and quite catchy, the best one probably being 'The Internet Is For Porn', which I've added below:



Beyond that, life has gone back to normal. Not for long, though - David and I have decided we're going to find a new place to live. I'm a little tired of being stuck in a tiny single bedroom, where you can't even let a pin drop lest the woman who lives downstairs comes banging on the door to yell at us to keep the noise down. This makes it especially difficult when I want to play my guitars.

Until then, it's back to work...