Month: June 2004

– A few people have really rubbed me the wrong way lately. I’m unsure as to whether it was actually them of if it’s just down to the frame of mind I’m in at the moment. I supsect it’s a little bit of both.

– Didn’t do much today at all, in fact I played Eve or Deus Ex all day. Not good so around 5ish I decided to walk up to Finchly road and get a book and some dinner. This of course turned into 4 books, ah well. Then I went to see The Day After Tomorrow as it was timed nicely with dinner being over. It’s a pretty poor movie…but it is a silly fun disaster movie and as such was exactly what I was expecting. So yes, fun. And Emmy Rossum was suitably cute. Tho I was scared to find out she was born in 1986 when I checked IMDB to see who she was.

– I’m not going to blog about the massively nerdy night I just had in Eve, but my god that was FUN!

Tired and feeling very out of sorts today. I’d make a list but it would only be of things which annoyed me so I’m not going to bother.

I’m going out now, to get some food and to get a book and perhaps to go and see a movie. We shall see.

*sigh*

One of those lives.

Hope Of The States – Enemies/Friends
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Lately in the hospitals
The halfway homes and choking jails
There’s people on the mend again
With hope to carry on again
It makes me feel that something’s right
For everyone who tries to fight
No politics or dirty tricks
All standing up and shouting out
All the money in the world won’t save you
We’re coming home
All the prisons that you build won’t hold us
Just let us go

Then I found a broken heart
With dusty wheezing thing won’t start
I’ll fix it up and watch it grow
And send it to a happy home
It don’t take much to raise a smile
To push yourself the extra mile
I’ll stand with you when things go wrong
And lie and say it’s not too long

All the money in the world won’t save you
We’re coming home
All the prisons that you build won’t hold us
Just let us go

Come on people
Keep your friends close
Your enemies won’t matter in the end
Come on people
Keep your friends close
Your enemies won’t matter in the end
In the end
In the end

Yet again, I am in a typing mood.

– I am glad that Ken Livingstone won the election for Lord Mayor of London. I am bothered by the low number of votes for the Green party and even more bothered by the fact that BNP recieved 10k more votes than they did. How can people vote for the fucking Nazi party in todays’s day and age?

– I do rant here, maybe more than it reads but this is my place to rant. Getting the thoughts down “on paper” helps alot and I often don’t let the full thoughts through but they work themselves out here for me. In work, I’ll go off in IM to a few people that I trust and respect and usually recoginse and acknowlege that I am on a rant.

Actually that’s it. I’m going to sleep now.

So this morning, I had a 9.30 meeting. A fairly important one.

Got up early to find we have no hot water so a cold shower to start the day was not fun. Got that over and done with pretty quick and then left a good twenty minutes early so I could get to my desk and sort myself out before the meeting.

Of course not only are there delays on the Jubilee Line but on the Piccadilly line too. So I arrived late. Only by a few minutes but it meant I had to go straight to the meeting room and to then go to the desk of the person I was meeting to grab her.

Anyway, I’m quite pleased to report the meeting was a complete success and I’ve got full permission and indeed encouragement from all parties to apply for both jobs. Which is exactly what I am doing this morning.

And now for the cover letters.

Greens all the way for this one. Second vote for the mayor of London to Ken Livingstone as I don’t want Steve Norris to get in there. Andrew pointed out that first vote could happily go on the Greens and then have the second one counted for Ken. Very handy and I was much happier casting that vote.

And no, I don’t ever mind people knowing who I am voting for.

And fuck yes that is a horrible colour. I am going to fix it in the morning. I’ll need a distraction by around 10am.

Got off tube.
Walked down road to the shop.
Bought dinner.
Came home.
Turned oven on.
Collected passport as proof of id.
Went next door.
Voted.
Came home.
Oven still not ready.

So not working. I’ll fix it later.

Again, fuck it.

Now I’m really fucking stressed.

I’m meeting with HR this afternoon and then hopefully I’ll be able to make a decision and take some action. A whole lot of support for going for both jobs, both my manager and his manager are encouraging me to do so. Now that they are both posted, I’m not sure that sending a CV and a cover letter for two jobs is such a good idea.

Fuck it, instead of sticking on my headphones and listening to some music I’m stuck on calls for the next 90 minutes if not two hours.

Fuck it all.