Better update

Still not caught up with NaNoWriMo. But hopefully the next few days might see that change.

I went to see the Goo Goo Dolls with my friend Lauren on Sunday. They were pretty good live. Then tonight I just saw the Drive By Truckers with Martin. They too were awesome.

I'm flying home to Shetland tomorrow - mainly to go and see Newton Faulkner but also because I haven't been home since that time at New Year. I've missed it, I won't lie. I miss the sea air and the quiet. See, in Glasgow my current pad is on a main road (although at the back of the building so a little quieter - then again, we're next to a police station) and the previous two were just off main roads (one next to a pub, fun times on match days), so fairly busy locations really. In Shetland my mam's house is in the back of beyond so it's nice to chill out a little. My granny's little house is even more remote, I'm hoping to get up there at the weekend too. I miss my granny. I hope I can still get home at Christmas and see her then too. Oh, and the others.

Also - my Cargo boss, Mark Buckland, is growing a 'tache for Movember. I think you should all sponsor him, because it's all in a good cause. You can go here and give all you can.

Right - need to go to bed soon, I have to be up at 0730 to get an early train to Aberdeen and I still have shit loads of packing to do.

Pungs

Yeah, that's NaNoWriMo naffed. Three days and I've written nowt. The procrastination kicked in again. I strongly doubt I'll have reached 50,000 words by the end of the month but then again, I don't think my idea would've stretched to that anyway

The Literary Ace...HA.

Yeah...times like this I am glad I have Snoopy comic strips to get me through.

I mentioned this in a previous post, but I am now officially participating in National Novel Writing Month. Frankly, I'm scared shitless. I've never attempted to write something at this kind of speed before. 50,000 in a month. Jeeeeeeeeeeeesus. That's more than I wrote in total at uni in four years. I have no chance. Think a lot of winging it is going to occur. I do have an idea, but it's not even a skeleton, it's still very much in the embryo stages. Worth a try, though. I've written fuck all in recent months because of stupid things like finishing uni (I still wish I'd graduated in absentia, what a waste of 300-odd quid it ended up being for me) and work, flat hunting etc. I need to get back into it. It was always what I wanted to do with my life, after all.

But yeah, if you wanna keep up / add me, my username is selkiesong - aye, like on Twitter.

Halloween

Against my better judgement, not to mention my meagre-till-pay-day-on-Tuesday bank balance, I went out for Halloween this weekend. It was good, because I went with friends I hadn't seen in months, and had been desperately needing to see for those months. I also saw 'Despicable Me' at the cinema, it's rather cute. I've been randomly saying "IT'S SO FLUFFAY!" at anyone who'll listen since seeing it. Also I want a minion.

No more news on my front, sadly.

Back Online

Yeah, my broadband got installed today. It's fibre optic so it goes like shite off a shovel.

One thing that keeps me going during work is the flat, and the thought of coming home to it and being nice and cosy. I never need to have the heating on for long.

I don't have a lot else to say tonight. Oh yeah, I'm participating in NaNoWriMo. Kill me now.

Four walls, a room, a door, some windows, just a place to run when my working day is through...

I don't think I've actually properly updated about anything that's happened of late, so I will now.

Basically yes, the move went well. I ended up blurting about it a little in the previous entry, which I had been trying to avoid doing while pending credit check. But it's all been sorted now, so I can tell you: I am now a tenant (together with my friend Netti) in an incredibly sexy new flat in a sexy new build in Partick. Seriously. The letting agents even supplied us with crockery, towels, bedding and stuff. Oh, and a telly. With a video and DVD player. I am more excited about the video player meself, I haven't watched my video of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers' 'Pack Up the Plantation: Live!' concert in years. Mam is going to send it down to me, I await it eagerly and impatiently.

I still work that same job, so still the usual malarky with that. I'm sadly less handy for getting the staff bus to work early shifts at certain stations in the morning, which makes it a bit inconvenient. Pungs. I also imagine I'll need to stop turning down shifts and having a social life so I can afford this pad at this rate. Then again, stuff with Cargo - you know, my other job? - is picking up. The Year of Open Doors is now back in stock following a second print run. We also recently curated the spoken word event held at the List magazine's 25th birthday party, which was a great success. We have a new release coming up for Christmas, which I will keep you posted about as much as possible. Plus, my job has been made a little easier. How? Trade secret you nosy so and so.

November is also going to be 2010's Gig Month (which was October last year. Think I'll need to have a Gig Month every year now). On the 7th, my friend Lauren and I are going to see the Goo Goo Dolls at the O2 Academy. On the 10th, my friend Martin and I are going to see the Drive-By Truckers at the ABC. Then on the 11th, I fly north - first time I've been back to Shetland since January - and I'm going to see Newton Faulkner at the Clickimin Centre. Then a few days at home, then back till hopefully Christmas. Again, need to sort that with work. Could potentially cause problems.

What else? Yeah...I finally get my internet this Friday. Which is good, because I'm currently online in one of the pubs in Glasgow and it's now timing out on me, so if none of you get to read this...sorry.

Quick Update

Hello.

You'll notice I've been quiet of late.

Well, for anyone who actually reads my grandiloquent, self indulgent rants, HELLO AGAIN I'M SORRY. I have no internet in the Hillhead pad. I have tried to keep this quiet but am preparing to move to a new one. More info on this as I receive it.

Meanwhile, 'The Year of Open Doors' will be back in stock soon, go buy.