I went to see a lot of really good bands last year. One of the best gigs I went to was probably Andrew Bird at the Picturehouse during the festival in the summer. I'd had a couple of his albums before I went to see him and he was somebody whose music I quite liked, but had never got really, really into. Seeing him perform live just absolutely blew ( Read more... )

So. Christmas was really, really good. I was very lucky in that I got a few days off for it and didn't have to work on Christmas Day. I was working on Christmas Eve until 9:30pm in Livingston and then I jumped in my car, put the old Christmas playlist on the ipod and drove to Sheffield to get there in time for Christmas morning. I only fell asleep ( Read more... )

So, today is Day One of my surgical job in Livingston. Haven't been here since the "Summer of Fun" that was my general medical placement as a student here in 2007. It hasn't changed much except now I'm supposed to know what I'm doing and I still feel very much like I don't ( Read more... )

Hmm, November was a little bit shit ( Read more... )

Bleurgh. Just finished my last night shift- hurray ( Read more... )

Hello. I haven't updated in a while. This is mostly because medicine has taken over my life completely, rendering me devoid of a social life, hobbies or hours spent awake that are not spent working ( Read more... )

Gosh, everything's been a bit busy lately, mostly in a good way. We still don't have the internet at home because tiscali are a bunch of feckless incompetents, but perhaps one day in the dim and distant future when someone decides to actually send some broadband our way, I will update properly ( Read more... )

westernfreeway gave me E. So ( Read more... )

I have recently become absolutely addicted to Strawberry Fair. Perfect perfect indiepop from Sweden. (Where else?)

Everyone should go and listen:

http://www.last.fm/music/Strawberry+Fair

( long and waffly )