I meant to write this post almost a week ago, but I’ve been lazy, pure and simple.

We now have a venue! At least I’m pretty sure we do… The guy from the Roadhouse let me know we could have the 11th of May on Friday, I needed to double check that it still worked for everyone and said I’d get back to him the next day, forgot about it, and e-mailed him at 2 am. Haven’t heard back yet, but I expect I will today.

So, yes, this is what’s happened. Aiden and Chris have teamed up with me for a venue. We tried the Actress and Bishop, but they couldn’t do that date, and so I e-mailed the Roadhouse, who said they didn’t know because they might be starting a Battle of the Bands thing on Wednesdays and Sundays in May. They were having a meeting about it Thursday, and asked me to e-mail them again on Friday when they knew more. I guess the Battle thing didn’t happen.

So, I have a date and a venue! Now I just need to complete my set. Interim task is next week. I’ve been rehearsing well with the band, and we’re running through the songs one more time next Wednesday before the interim task, so I think we should be fine.

I’m helping out Aiden with his interim task, too. His singer couldn’t be there that day, so he asked if I could fill in (or, I heard him talking about it and offered, and then he asked me later). Yesterday, I took a train out to Coventry and Aiden picked me up. Then we drove to his place, in some quite small town I can’t remember the name of, parked the car, and were picked up by his bassist who drove us to a very drafty rehearsal space in Nuneaton. They had a good PA, though, and in our break we were served tea (as in the drink, not the meal), which was nice. I completely wore out my voice doing one of the songs an octave higher than the original at the top of my lungs, but it was great fun! I’m looking forward to Aiden’s interim task. It’s the day before mine, so it should be good “warm-up”.

Oh, also yesterday, Renee won silver in her jitsu tournament! She would have won the gold if it weren’t for her asthma, I’m sure of it, she was absolutely awesome!

Today I am going HOME!!! I’ll be back on Sunday, but I’m just so excited to be spending some time with Morten, and I’ll be seeing KayKay, too, my “wee sis” whose been in Japan, so I haven’t seen her since August! I’m taking her to lunch this Wednesday.

I have a lecture today at 11. The Employability & Enterprise lectures are mandatory, so I’m going to that. As soon as the main portion of the lecture is over, though, I’m heading off to get a train out to Birmingham International for my flight. I’ll be stopping in Amsterdam again. They have crazy security there, so I’m glad I’ll have two hours to get through it all…

Now I need to make sure I’ve finished packing.