Happy Friday!!!

I got laid off on Friday. It was an utter disaster. Usually we have a meeting at the beginning of our shift and the morning shift relays "useful" information to our shift, the swing shift. Well, there wasn't any supervision for the meeting. Someone said to me "uh, you might want to check your email". So I did, and got a sloppily written message in cutesy big slanty green font saying something to the effect of "SORRY I GUESS WE FORGOT TO TELL YOU THAT TODAY IS THE LAST DAY ON THE JOB. WHOOPSIE. THANKS FOR THE GREAT JOB. HAPPY FRIDAY!!!!". And that was how I was laid off. The supervisors fucked off to some off-site party to celebrate the end of the project I was working on. They didn't even invite us workers who brought the project to completion. It was insult after insult.

So that happened. I've been on the jobhunt since, only to be told "wow, you're great, but we just don't have anything right now" which is what I kept hearing 3 months ago when I moved to Portland.


Last night at karaoke a very small man came up to me and started talking shite about my girl. She was standing right behind him, so I was momentarily confused into thinking it was all a very bad joke, but then I realized that it wasn't, and so for the very first time in my life I contemplated punching a very small man.

I just saw Colin (aka Drums of Death) and Peaches. Colin used to do the Kaput! club night that I worked at with Duncan, Tom, and Laura in Glasgow. It was an incredible show, and Colin was phenomenal, I was really impressed with his energy and am sure that he is on his way to the big time.

Tomorrow night I might go see Far. It will satisfy my inner 20-year-old.

Thursday night I'm going to see Camera Obscura! My Maudlin Career is my favourite album of 2009 thus far. And they're from Glasgow as well, which makes me hyper thrilled. I never got to know any of them - only met Gav once but saw him all over the place, but we have a bunch of the same friends. I don't really know how to approach them, like, if I should even try to be cool and hang out or just sit back and watch the show like everyone else and not worry about anything more.

Friday night is Neko Case. I should get my ticket for this soon...maybe today...

Saturday night is Jens Lekman!

Far, Neko, Obscura, Jens....those are 4 of my favorites. What a week!