Late night, double feature picture show, I want to go!

We went and saw a live performance of Rocky Horror show last night. Hell yea! :-D

It was great.

Excellent audience participation from the beginning (picture all audience members doing the time warp together and Ben sitting in his seat looking rather bemused! - he joined in during the encore!)... and some excellent one liners from the narrator, who was very good. Rocky himself, was just a feast of the eyes... Muscles... hmmmm muscles :D. 'I'm a muscle fan!' And the Frank N Furter wasn't Tim Curry (that would be a bit wrong at Tim's age anyway!) ... but he was bloody good, and he had a great time hamming it up too!

It was soo much fun. :)

And of course, cos its Rocky, you have to get dressed up... :) Thanks to Mel for the corset!



Competition for best caption! ;-) (no we don't have a prize, you just get to feel good that you are clever!)

cheers,

-nic

We are Moving!

Hi all,

Today we are moving houses! We are leaving our studio flat, with its much loved view and much hated tiny kitchen and only one main room... to a Terrace House built circa 1900! :-)

It's beautiful, quaint, very English, and has more than one room! yea! Downstairs is a hallway, with a sitting room on the left, at the end of the hallway to the left is the stairs to up-stairs, and straight in front of that is the living room, and then a small kitchen which still manages to have more benchspace than our current flat... and then in front of that a bathroom.

Upstairs are two bedrooms. We are staying in one. The owner of the house is staying in the other.... Yes we are moving back into a shared house arrangement!

The owner is a fellow first year PhD student, Alastair (we call him Ali). He is studying complex systems, which equals computers + biology, which in turn means that both Ben and I have a lot in common with him! We met him at the beginning of January. Since then, we have become excellent friends with him, seeing him recently about 5 times a week, sharing dinners, and just generally having a good time. So moving in with him will just be making it easier to spend time with someone we already spend a lot of time with. :-D

He only bought the house about a month and a half ago, and we have been helping him decide how to furnish it (go Ikea porn!) and then helping him put together lots of flatpack furniture (suprisingly satisfying, and very tiring).

And now, having found someone to replace us here, we are moving! It didn't take us very long to find someone, we thought we would have to advertise but the University of York Accommodation Office had a waiting list for the flat, and found someone on it for us! yea!

Okay, I guess I need to actually go and start packing... (we've given ourself this weekend to move and clean the flat, though we are hoping to do it all today, we think that's realistic since we only moved from Aus 6 months ago with only two suitcases of stuff, and haven't yet managed to increase that by too much).

So take care everyone, and there'll be photos soon. (but not too soon cos there's no net access at Ali's yet... though that will be coming in the next couple of weeks)

Ciao,

nic.