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Jees i'm already getting lazy at writing this thing! Suppose it's only there for if and when i want to say something though.

Well had my birthday party on Saturday night, was good fun, and great to see people from the various areas of my life - home, uni, work, even primary school! Was kinda overwhelming at times. Thanks to all that came, hope you all had fun. Actual birthday is tomorrow (Tues 15th), and i guess i'll have a meal with the family. Got an interesting clock from Ali which i plan to put in my Birmingham living room - it's a clock on 3 stands like a tripod, so it faces vertically! I hope it'll stop Guy being late in the mornings! Eli smuggled in a load of Belgian beer for me...that'll have gone by the end of the week!! Geth, who knows me perhaps too well, also got me some beer and a shirt about Mrs Hand and her Five Daughters...i don't need to explain! The Strange Creation guys got me a copy of Terry Pratchett's Men At Arms - i suppose home friends will have heard by now that we're talking about adapting the book ourselves for a BIG production next Summer...see how forward-planning we are?! Looking forward to reading that.

Working pretty regularly still in the Ormonds, in fact pretty much every day until Weds 23rd, my final day before setting off to Edinburgh Festival on the Thurs...driving up with Alec. Should be great fun. And then Brumward bound following that, although aside from sending off a CV to the Alexandra Theatre for position of Deputy Front of House Manager (hope to hear from them soon!), i've done extraordinarily little to prepare for my return!

Afraid i'm no more cheerful than since my last blog - guess it's just one of those phases we all go through, but there's some other stuff too which i feel it would be inappropriate to talk about in such a public place. There's an old Serenity Prayer, written by Reinhold Niebuhr:

Great Spirit,
Grant me the serenity to accept the things i cannot change
The courage to change the things i can
And the wisdom to know the difference.

I wish i could follow its advice.

Song of the week: Hmm tricky one. Still listening to Zucchero, but also started exploring the Walter Trout Band (pretty damn cool!!) and some Stevie Wonder. Can't pick an individual song i'm afraid! Anyone got some good suggestions?

I'll try and write soon folks,
j xx