Detox required

I had a busy weekend, for a change. Here's what happened...

Fri - My initial plan was to have a quiet night in, but was asked on the spur of the moment to go to a party with the girls. Party? Girls? I'm not normally inclined to say no to those! The party was in a flat just off Sauchiehall St, and featured mainly French people (with the odd Argentinian and Moroccan thrown in). At first it was awkward for me as I didn't really know anyone there, but a couple of Whiskies and Vodkas soon put paid to that. There was this Moroccan guy who actually said to someone "by the way I'm not an Arab" - what's the world coming to if someone feels they have to say something like that? As long as you don't have an AK-47 and a flying licence then you're ok by me. Anyway, I couldn't understand a word this guy was saying, and just nodded and pretended I knew what he was talking about instead of saying "what?" all the time. The girls decided to leave early, and so I left with them. Daniel, the guy who rented my room before me, was there also.

Sat - Went to my sister's new flat in Scotstoun, for an evening with my sisters, cousins, bro-in-law and sisters pals. Large quantities of red wine were consumed and much catching up was done. Later, we got a bus into the city centre, to the Buff Club. I'd never been before and still haven't because after a good 15 mins queuing, we were told "sorry the club's full - you'll have to go". We then headed to the Sub Club (in the freezing cold), which was good - I've always found the Sub Club to be consistently a good night out. By the end of the night I was very drunk and felt like shit. Chips & cheese was purchased and consumed.

Sun - Spent most of the day in bed, sleeping off the hangover. Was finally out of bed and showered by 4pm. Went on a date! I got the train down to the Odeon (in Ayr) and met her outside. We went to see The Grudge, a hollywood remake of a Japanese horror film. It was ok; quite chilling but a bit silly. After we went for a drink in the West Kirk (Wetherspoons) and then to Elliots in Prestwick to meet her friends and endure a bit of sub-standard karaoke. Good night though!

Mon (today) - My dad woke me quite early, around 10:30am - feeling strangely fresh after a few drinks last night and only 6 hours sleep. Someone with the following name:

** DUNK 'N LEE"~**tHeRe Is A HoLe In My SouL..u CaN c It In My fAcE..iT's A rEaL bIg PlAcE.. .. .. ..

- tried to add me to their MSN Messenger contacts, then was asking questions like "where u 4om?" The picture they use is of Duncan from the boy-band Blue. My guess is that she is some mad Blue fan who has done some sort of search on Messenger to find people with names like "Dunc" or "Dunk" or "Dunky", in the hope of meeting her idol. My Messenger name (Dunky) probably came up as a match. How random. Anyway, I should be going back up to Glasgow shortly and continue my quest for employment.

I was thinking of buying a new guitar. Saw some cheap-but-good ones in the window of McCormacks. My old one has packed in a bit. I've got this guitar effects pedal (got as a birthday present a few years back, seriously underused), and with it you can create almost any sound by tweaking various parameters. However the jack connection on my old guitar must be fuked, and consequently all you can hear through the pedal is a muffled sound.

Recently I've been doing a lot of exercise, mainly jogging, on a daily basis. I've either been doing 3.5 mile runs outdoors (I measured it!), or 20 mins intensive treadmill action in my new home, Healthland gym. After just over a week of this, I'm feeling so much healthier. I'm going to start doing a lot of ab work etc, in an attempt to vanquish what's left of my beer belly. A six-pack wouldn't hurt much :D

Job search update: I had an interview on Wednesday for a software company in Edinburgh. I was given a technical test of my C/C++ knowledge, in which I think I did pretty well. However, I was scuppered a bit by some of the general questions (it might've helped for the first question if I knew what the company actually was!) and found out the next day that my "application was unsuccessful". Oh well, chin up I suppose - it's all good experience. I'm kind of glad though, as I didn't really fancy the daily commute from Glasgow to Edinburgh. I'm hoping that I'll have something soon. On one side, I'm not strapped for cash just yet, but on the other side, the question "so what have you been doing since you graduated" is going to be increasingly harder to answer at interviews.

As an aside, that's the first time I've explored Edinburgh myself during the day, and junkies aside, it seems like a really nice city.