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Monday 14th May 2001
Thankfully Jon rang me this morning which woke me up at 9.20am. I'd woken up earlier but if he hadn't have called I'd have slept through until late. Ah well - not exactly a problem, really, is it? I was quite tired at work - mainly because I didn't get to bed until about 3.30am this morning due having been slagging in Brighton. Still, I waded through the tedium of the day (this place really has sucked the life force out of me) and by 6pm or so was ready to go home and sleep - which I did. More or less. It's Jon's birthday. I felt a bit guilty because I'd forgotten it but we got a card and I think he was happy with that. There were plans afoot to go out in the evening and have a drink in Oxford but they fell through as people cancelled. We're on a binge at the end of the week anyway, so it's best to just save it all up, I'm sure! Voyager was good. Had quite a long chat with Nigel in the evening as well. Watched Philip mincing around Brighton on BBC2. A whole load of people on irc were commentating live on how he was being nothing the Philip everyone else has met. He was always a bit of a bizarre bunny. I was up quite late talking to BlowThingsUpEd about stuff, mainly France. We were both wondering what I was going to do next... as in what I'm going to do when I get back. I should probably be feeling bad for not having planned that far ahead, but I haven't, and I don't care. Part of me is wondering whether I should just carry on working (but obviously not at AI because it's double mind-crushingly fuck depressing) - mainly because if I hang around a bit longer stock might go up again (up at all would be nice) and then I'll have more funds available to do stuff. But if I don't do it now, I never will. I know that from experience - I was going to be in Dublin by now, after all. So I'm definitely positively going to. So the world can take a big fucking running leap if it doesn't like it. The result was we both came to the conclusion that nothing particularly matters: toys, gadgets - that kind of stuff. (So long as I have a few, though...) So my focus is now shifting even more towards extended head-clearing holiday rather than opportunity to work from nice cottage in sunshine. It would be criminal to be stuck inside working every day in weather like that anyway!! I had been asked if I'd mind contracting from France for AI, but the fact that nobody from upstairs has even bothered talking to me about my departure indicates somewhat that they couldn't care less. But that's good as it leaves me more time for other people who will hopefully pay more. It would be nice to do something that's likely to benefit someone else, rather than just make people richer. Oooh. Utopia. What a wonderful concept. I bought a Milky Bar at lunchtime. | |||
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