purplerabbits

I have booked for BiCon, which should be a laugh, and am also thinking of going to KnowledgeLab III: WHO CARES? in Lancaster from 30 June - 2 July. At one or both of these I am thinking of running a session about "Hacking your brain" or CBT for the mainly sane. (That probably sucks as a title, I have no idea what to call it.)

Does this strike people as a good idea? Would you attend? Will I be inundated with people who are too crazy for me to handle? Should I run some other topic that you'd be desperate to see? Or should I just shut up now?

And on the subject of BiCon: there are a lot of people I would like to catch up with, especially since I haven't been for a couple of years. So I wonder, first, whether they would like to catch up with me, and, secondly, if any of them will be around before or after and might be popping over to Edinburgh...

Well would you?

OK, it looks like Sunday 18th for Thutmose III - probably meeting at 2pm, but I'll check tonight if that clashes with a Solstice meeting. And the wheel and German market can be Wednesday 21st at 5ish.

I'd like to hold the mulled beverage do on the 30th - sulis_minerva were you planning a party then?

Tonight I shall be at a Solstice meeting and then at the Hoose. If anyone wants me to pick up a ticket for the meal and can have the money for me in the pub, comment here before 5.00 or text me... leila_child - do you definitely want to do the door?

And in other messages, I need the addresses of ravenevermore and cujosmurf - mail me if you wish gifts!

So I definitely intend to have a mulled wine party, possibly also featuring hot port and egg nog. Do you want to come?
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It looks like I won't be at Vaudeville tonight as everyone I know is dropping out of going, so what *are* people doing tonight, and is there anybody who would like my company? Plans that are not The Auld Hoose get extra points, but frankly I may well turn up there if nothing else turns up, I realise I'm probably alienating myself from a lot of people by disliking that pub.

If you want to hear drums tonight Edinburgh Samba School are holding a pre-cavalcade party at the Counting House (West Nicolson Street, between and above the Pear Tree and The Blind Poet) from 8pm-1pm It's £6/£8 after 10pm and includes Samba drumming, Celilidh band, Capoera, Samba Dancing and other musics and stuff. Come and keep me company!

Also does anyone want to come to Gladstone's Land with me next week in the day time? I'm a member of NTS so I can get another person in free.

Does anyone want to come to the Weird Attractors gig tonight at the Liquid rooms? It runs 7-10pm and costs a fiver...

August schedulification

Monday 1st August - Doctor am then work. Beltane type party at the Counting House/Blind Poet? Maybe, but I have to get up in the morning...
Tuesday 2nd August - psychologist am, work pm, free in the evening
Wednesday 3rd August - work then free
Thursday 4th August - work then The Forest fifth birthday party with Jon and/or Bongo launch party
Friday 5th August - no work, sleep in, make food for Samba peeps then go to the workshops in the evening.
Saturday 6th August - Samba workshops all day followed by a party
Sunday 7th August - festival cavalcade with Samba followed by picnic
Monday 8th August - off work. Tao Japanese drummers 5.50, with Jon, Sandy and Martin
Tuesday 9th August - off work
Wednesday 10 August - off work. Afternoon in town with Jo
Thursday 11th August - off work, Nova Scotia launch 6.30pm Blackwells
Friday 12th August - off work, free
Saturday 13th August - free
Sunday 14th August - Fringe Sunday on the Meadows
Monday 15th August - back at work afterall
Wednesday 17th August - seeing Jon
Thursday 18th August - not in work till afternoon
'End of August' - Beltane Big Blether
Saturday 3rd September - Nuala's birthday drinks. Bitch at Marco's, worth a look?
Sunday 4th September - Fireworks
Monday 19 September - not at work, autumn holiday

I did much painting this weekend - the hall is now green and gold but a lot of tidying up round the edges needs to be done. Now that I'm doing DIY, though, I realise how much I can't do. Does anyone out there have either the tools or the expertise to help me shave a couple of millimetres off the bottom of my bedroom door, for instance. That one thing would improve my life so much...

And I have decided that I have to go see Elvis Costello at the Usher Hall on Valentine's Day - would that not be very appropriate? Does anyone want to come with me?

What does one eat with cold meats in a buffet?

Does anyone know what the Auld Hoose is doing on Xmas day? (Or Xmas Eve or Boxing day.)

Do you like Stollen? Or some other kind of Xmas cake/pie/pudding? (No, I am not going to do a poll.) What about chestnuts?

Where in Edinburgh can I get cheap holly and mistletoe? (Please note that I am not prepared to climb over any fences)

What is everyone up to on Hogmanay?



*holiday in that hideously speshul American sense, that is

Well we're out of our office and I'm tucked into the corner of someone else's, using a different machine It's OK because I got iTunes and Safari going so can cope with anything until we're back where we belong. Also the hippie boss bought me lunch, so won't call her useless for a bit...

I'm still planning what to do next week when I'm off. I was thinking of going to the Botanics on Friday lunchtime to see the Earth from the Air exhibition and maybe the Alternative Midsummer Night's Dream which is on at 1.15 and is free. Does anyone want to come with me?

Does anyone want to go to the Japanese Drummers with me on Saturday at 6pm? Details here - tickets are cheap on Saturday and seem to be still available...