{token fan pic}

ooookkkkk. so i haven't written on here in a while. seriously. but today i'm in nottingham. the land of the good archer who stole from the rich to give to the poor. this week i've been in manchester, london, glasgow, and places in between. with ben. and still remains. and wow. its so funny how invisible i feel when ben is spotted by any fan as soon as he leaves the bus. they look right through me to him. and ignore me as i try to stand in the way of obnoxious flirting. ha. while ben is totally oblivious.
but. here's my week on tour in a nutshell {i'll write about brixton academy in london after tomorrow. sold out show. 5000!}
anyway.
so still remains played in brighton on wednesday. the van they rented was too heavy with all the gear, and people crammed in like sardines. i was told that i couldn't come along for the UK journey. ben was mad. but it all was cleared up when they opted for a bus for about the same price as all of the issues with the van would cost {with hotels etc} so i could go! we went to newport, wales the next day and i sold 1310pounds in merch. hoorah! i'm amazing. just kidding.
wow this is a pretty lame entry,
then we went to wolverhampton and i got to show ben topshop. and i think he liked it a lot. they played a show in a really nice venue with showers and a hot tub in the dressing room. yessss.
then glasgow, scotland at a not-so-nice venue but it still had showers so i was clean once again. and lori, mike's wife, came and we hung out in the balcony. i was recruited for a couple of night to film sleepless nights alone every night for a band video but i think they stopped wanting to do it. heh.
i got to see some abandoned apartment buildings in glasgow, right behind the venue that the movie trainspotting was set at. the real drug trafficking buildings that the movie was about, not the actual set.
ben and i went for japanese food that was really good and cheap, and we went and bought bread and jam for toast all week. cheap meals, yessss. we also got some medicine because i got a wicked flu. yuck. everyone in the band has/had it.
then we went to manchester and ben & i went for breakfast to get some coffee {hard to find here} and bacon sandwiches {which their bacon is really more like ham} and it was really good. then we took a taxi to a music store to get some things for the show. and came back. tons of fans in between to talk to ben as i awkwardly stood by waiting for them to be done. i stood in the crowd for that show and got so hot. seriously. by the end of the show when stilly did their signing, i noticed it was raining inside the building. all of the perspiration condensed and was dripping back down on to my clothes. so i left and waited in the dressing room.
then yesterday, we were in london, and still remains had to do a recording with xfm radio, so lori & i took the underground {tube} into the center of london and went to picadilly circus to shop at some posh stores. carnaby street and i got slippers for me & ben. and on our way back to the bus, we stopped to see buckingham palace and got a snack at a pub.
when we got back the band went grocery shopping and got a lot of food to last the entire week. half is gone today. hah
today we're in nottingham, and i hope to see a castle tonight.. maybe even sherwood forest.
ben & i went to get more meds and coffee at cafe nero. i still think its weird that it costs more to stay in the restaurant to eat/drink than to take out. it cost 10p more for each of our americanos today because we stayed in the shop to drink them. weird.
ben talks really fast and people can't understand him. i can't even sometimes.
"veni?"
"what?"
"vinu?"
"musiveni?"
"what?"
"music venue?" holy crap. say a complete sentence, you.