By which I mean, I just got back from a trip down South, and now I feel the need to share with everybody how awesome the Jonathan Coulton gig was.

Seriously, people, go and see Coulton. He is SO MUCH FUN!

( before I get to the set list, I have to go on about how we totally met him before the show! )

So, yesterday I managed to persuade tinne_gem to go to see a concert with me. She is pretty awesome anyway, but this was especially nice as she didn't know the artist in question.

( gigness for the win )

I have a sore throat, swolen glands and a temperature. Dammit. I am not going to get ill! I won't, I say! However, this post was actually meant to be about the Edinburgh Festival, so I shall move on.

( Click here if you feel like gratuitous pimping of coolness, reviewage, or discussion of how Katie just happened to meet PAUL FREAKING MERTON )

Well, OK, so, maybe I didn't. I did, though, meet Jasper Fforde, and since I promised a nice public post about it...

( The Man, The Myth, The Book, The Spoilers )

I've been making lists of the things I'm going to take with me when I move continents. (SQUEE! *ahem*) It's very cool - for some reason I love making lists, even if I'm very bad at actually using them in a productive manner most of the time - but ever so slightly intimidating. Twenty kilograms of stuff suddenly starts seeming very little indeed ( Read more... )

Two cool things happened today.

( Cool Thing 1 )

Indeed, I have, I've been most impressed with myself today. You see, today I:

( did some stuff and then went back to sleep. )