So, I’ve been a bit apathetic lately, haven’t really had the energy to blog… Went home for Easter and it was great, but I caught a rather nasty cold about halfway through, and I’m still not well. This is somewhat worrying, as my gig is in ten days. In addition to that, I still haven’t finished the interviews for my podcast, let alone recorded it. This is because every time I open my mouth to speak more than a yes or a no I start coughing. The nights are the worst. I’ve been having some pretty severe coughing fits, sometimes lasting for minutes. I get a tickle in my throat, try to cough it away, but it doesn’t work. I sent an e-mail to Steve Spencer yesterday to ask if I can do a written assignment instead of the podcast, but he won’t get back to me until Tuesday as he’s out of the office till then.

Thankfully, I can still sing. Not as well as usual, but I can do it, which means that I will manage to do my dissertation. I’ll just sound a little more like Janis Joplin than usual. I have three rehearsals scheduled for this week (though one of them is still just a maybe, as there’s a module scheduled at the same time but I don’t know if it’s running or not). Still, I’m getting along all right for my promo pack at least. I’ve made two flyers for the gig:

Which one do you like best? The photo in the first one looks very inviting, but I like the colours in the second one. The irony of course being that I spent hours on the first one and did the second one in twenty minutes in the middle of the night before I was supposed to go get them printed.

Gonna start putting them up around campus this week, I think. And then I’m putting them in the promo pack, of course. Need to write a press release… Never done that before, but it should be fairly interesting to try. Could just be me, but I have this strange idea that one generally has other people to do that “in real life”… I wonder if I possess the narcissism necessary to make oneself look interesting and, you know, good.

In other news, the new series of Doctor Who has started, and the two opening episodes were absolutely fantastic! I felt like a kid again, the second one was seriously terrifying in several places. I can’t believe they show this stuff to kids!

Anyways, hopefully I’ll be back in blogging mode again soon, and May will be a better blogging month than April was. Oh, and happy May Day to the Brits, and happy Labour Day to all my friends back in Norway! It’s technically over now, as it’s past midnight and already the 2nd of May, but all the same. Hope everyone had a good one! Mine was filled with The Sims 3, The Fifth Element, Bolognese and Cava.

EDIT: I feel that I should mention that, despite my state of rhinoviral infection, I went to the jam night on Wednesday, after I got back here, and managed to belt forth, as I was later told, a stunning rendition of Living on a Prayer. Thinking back at that, at least there’s some comfort in the knowledge that even if I’m still ill next Wednesday, I can always compensate by screaming at the top of my lungs.