Mark Watson - Cracker Highlights (2008)

Mark Watson is coming to NZ.

12-17 of May I believe.

I tried to get tickets to see him at the Edinburgh Fringe fest but he sold out in like a day. Anyone keen???

living the dream

In a haze of illness, stress, assignments, parties, beer pong, alcohol, crazy dancing and fun I seemed to have arrived at the end of the first half of semester one!

I am completely in love with my life in auckland, I love the city, I love my flat, I love all of the amazing people i've met.... pretty much i've just got a lot of love to give! For now though I am back in good old Morrinsville, surrounded by trees, cows and not much else! It's very different to bustling Auckland but I like its serenity. I'm here for around 10 days before I go back to the big smoke.

The past few weeks have been crazy busy, I was sick on and off for a couple of weeks which was not fun. I ended up surrendering and going to the (free) doctor who gave me steroids which cleared everything up the day I started taking them. Go figure.

I've also handed my first assignments in for each class, 3 essays. So now i've got a bit of breathing space but in the 3 weeks after I get back I have 2 essays, 1 oral presentation and a short film to hand in (along with my birthday). Then later I have exams and 2 more assignments and i'm all done for the semester!

Socially, i've also been having a great time. A few weeks ago we took over a bus and headed out to one tree hill where we ate, drank and were merry. Of course in typical Fran style I managed to fall over and make a dick out of myself. Can't even blame it on the alcohol because I hadn't been drinking.... it was 100% me!! Ah well, my clumsiness was bound to come out sometime, better earlier than later!

I've also been out several times, most recently was Bethy's birthday extravaganza over wednesday and thursday night. Wednesday night included beer pong, a fantastic cake, 2-for-1 drinks and globe and the obligatory white lady:

Thursday night was party time at Cassette Number Nine, cocktails in teapots, park shenannigans, drinking wine the classy way (ie straight out of the bottle), naked man, sign stealing (almost) and a game of drunk soccer.

Speaking of Wednesday night beer pong, I lost my pong virginity about 3 weeks ago. So so SO much fun! I'm rubbish but i'll pick it up quickly. I need to. Gotta catch my skills up, it's an art form I tell you!

That's all from me for now, i've been far too lazy this last week. Am kind of lagging behind so this weekend will be lots of work I think! Will hopefully write before I head back to Auckland. If I have anything interesting to write, that is.

Bye for now :)