26/10/06
Dear Dairy, part 2. -
Categories: Part 2 of 'Dear Dairy'.
Back from my gig in Chertsey now. So where had we got to? Oh yes. The end of Monday night.
Tuesday, I was supposed to be doing Aberystwyth University. Except, I pulled out. Not because of a diary clash, or because of illness, but because I had a radio job the following morning and it's a five and a half hour there drive there, and the same back. That might seem perfectly reasonable, but let me tell you this; I rarely turn work down, to the point where it is a personal rule. Unless financially I will be worse off for doing it, I always prefer to be working than not, regardless of how good or bad the gig is. My diary on MySpace kinda reflects that. It was technically feasible that I would be able to get to the gig and back again in time, but it would be too hard. So I asked to pull the gig (and hunted around for a replacement - I think this is the least any act can do so as to minimise the inconvenience to the booker) and Christian Knowles gracefully accepted. I even offered to do it if he didn't feel the replacements available were up to muster.
So I had a day off. I went to the gym, I checked emails, I did some online shopping... it was great. I still took about 20 calls relating to Komedia, but hey, you can't have everything.
And then on Wednesday it was back to full speed again; taking my car to the bodyshop to sort out my idiot damage, confirming the acts at Komedia, missing the special delivery of my PDA (can't get it until tomorrow now) and then confirming a few key details about festivals next year (hooray! I'm off to South Africa!). I had a celebratory blueberry milkshake while opening a letter from a company that had tested my blood for food intolerances.
And it appears my tolerance for dairy - especially cows milk - is off the chart. Wheat and Rye are in the 'avoid' category also, but the milk intolerance is 5 times the threshold for them suggesting it is cut from your diet altogether. I did the test a week ago as part of my ongoing mission to work out what causes my sinus and throat problems and if it really is cow's milk and wheat - that's great - but good god, bread and cheese is probably 50% of everything I eat.
Meh. I'm not sure how I'm going to adapt to this new way of life. Gig in Chertsey was good, anyway, even though it was pretty quiet and I was being annoyingly interrupted every 40 seconds by a woman called Fiona who has taken over as the autocue operater on 8 out of 10 cats, after the previous operater apparently fell out with Jimmy Carr.
Oh god, I'm already hungry thinking about what I can't eat. Apparently, Goat's Milk is OK, as is oat milk. Oat milk? Where's the nipples on an oat?
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