Festival MADNESS!
By Milo | August 7, 2009
My t-shirt design (made from recycled materials(it gets recycled every year))
I’m currently on what is called ‘temp promotion’ for the month of August. What this consists of is a cleverly calculated, microscopic sum of money which, when tax is taken off, amounts to exactly dick-all – and a whole lot of headache inducing additional work involving excruciatingly anal ‘high-level strategic planning’ and shit-hits-the-fan staff management scenarios.
On the plus side though, I’m not having to type so much each day that my hands feel like they’ve been run over by a truck, and for one month only I don’t have to get up until the leisurely time of 7am, giving me a lie-in of a whole hour and a half! This morning I even went for a swim before work such was my glee at being able to choose how to spend those early hours of the morning for myself.
Being so busy with work though does mean it looks like another Edinburgh Festival will on the whole be passing me by. Hangovers and the above workload are not good bedfellows so I will be spending the evenings being utterly sensible (well after the usual hour on Facebook and Twitter).
I will however, do my best to catch some of the excellent local music that’s happening during August. I’ve written a wee preview in this month’s Skinny, and thanks to the music editor Dave Kerr who helped out with some timely additions just before going to print. I think it’s a pretty comprehensive account of Edinburgh’s independent promoters and musicians valiant efforts to continue with their lives despite the “influx of tosspots” (as the Daily Mash would have it).
Also, I was chuffed to get a nice write up on the excellent Just Another iPhone Blog for my iPhone vid (see previous post).
So I haven’t just been sitting scratching my arse, honest..
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