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gelbes_gilatierBecause, see, a friend of mine from TTW is here to visit me at the moment because we wanted to see Brandi Carlile in concert on Friday. Unfortunately, I didn't exactly feel up to a concert that involved more than sitting around and listening since the knee still isn't back on par (and I still don't know what's actually going on with it...) and the throat wasn't only aching but I also was coughing my heart out in the morning and sounded like someone after a concert should sound and not before (seriously, Rod Stewart and Bonnie Tyler have nothing on my voice right now)... well, basically, I was feeling like crap.
So I fetched the friend from the train station and almost begged her to go without me (my main concern was that I'd have to go out, be on the urban train for like an hour, suffer the concert (get sweaty, probably inhale lots of cigarette smoke etc.) and then get back home for like an hour in the freezing cold (seriously, it's way too cold for May here) and probably be sick the next week as well) and while she did understand (and well, she could hear me...) she kept begging me to come with her anyway. We argued back and forth and in the end I let her convince me to come with her.
So we looked up where we actually had to go, had a look at the club's page again and then read the following message: the concert was - I kid you not - cancelled. Because of the - wait for it - Ash Cloud Of DOOM. No, seriously. Cancelled. Because of the Ash Cloud of DOOM. Apparently Brandi had been playing at Aberdeen on April 30th and that was it until June 8th. All concerts inbetween were cancelled. The friend didn't really find it funny (she spent 60€ for the train ticket to Berlin because she had wanted to see Brandi, after all) but I just couldn't stop laughing, seriously.
I'm also still wondering if that was a sign that things will get better (since I was admittedly a bit relieved that I could stay at home after all) or if that was just another step in the direction of things getting even worse. Being more of a glass half empty person I tend to the latter but then again... a little bit of optimism is okay, right? It won't mean that the world will end tomorrow just to teach me a lesson if I don't expect the worst, yes? Tell me it won't, please.
PS.: Yes, you can still unlurk here.
So I fetched the friend from the train station and almost begged her to go without me (my main concern was that I'd have to go out, be on the urban train for like an hour, suffer the concert (get sweaty, probably inhale lots of cigarette smoke etc.) and then get back home for like an hour in the freezing cold (seriously, it's way too cold for May here) and probably be sick the next week as well) and while she did understand (and well, she could hear me...) she kept begging me to come with her anyway. We argued back and forth and in the end I let her convince me to come with her.
So we looked up where we actually had to go, had a look at the club's page again and then read the following message: the concert was - I kid you not - cancelled. Because of the - wait for it - Ash Cloud Of DOOM. No, seriously. Cancelled. Because of the Ash Cloud of DOOM. Apparently Brandi had been playing at Aberdeen on April 30th and that was it until June 8th. All concerts inbetween were cancelled. The friend didn't really find it funny (she spent 60€ for the train ticket to Berlin because she had wanted to see Brandi, after all) but I just couldn't stop laughing, seriously.
I'm also still wondering if that was a sign that things will get better (since I was admittedly a bit relieved that I could stay at home after all) or if that was just another step in the direction of things getting even worse. Being more of a glass half empty person I tend to the latter but then again... a little bit of optimism is okay, right? It won't mean that the world will end tomorrow just to teach me a lesson if I don't expect the worst, yes? Tell me it won't, please.
PS.: Yes, you can still unlurk here.
