The weekend highlights!

Well, it's been a weekend of surprises, and because I know everyone is so enthralled by my life I shall type up all the events of the weekend for all you readers of mine!


Well, I awoke on Friday morning after a decent sleep, with a rather horrible pain within my stomach/gut. I attempted to brush this aside and finish off my week at work, however this did not quite go to plan as work became quickly unbearable with such strong stomach pains. I called it quits half-way through my shift and endeavored forward on me 1 hour long trip home, which really did not help my stomach any....whoops. Well this is what I get for being too lazy to learn the bus schedule. I struggled home and made myself a steaming hot bath which I thought would be a great way to quell my waning stomach. I struggled to enjoy my bath as my stomach was complaining as much as old people do about the TV being too loud. I managed to get myself out of the bath, and promptly collapsed myself onto the bathrail as I could barely stand due to what was later determined to be dehydration. I then managed to crawl to the bathroom where the remains of last nights tasty dinner (and dessert) made a triumphant return up my throat and into the bowl of the toilet.

Later in the evening, feeling consistently worse, and under the advise of mummy dearest, James took me down to the after-hours clinic where I was seen to relatively promptly for a Friday night (obviously I had gotten in before all the alcohol-induced injuries flooded the clinic). I was diagnosed with having a bout of gastroenteritis and having 'bowel spasms' (doesn't that name just evoke a pleasant image?) so I got some prescriptions and pills and made my way home to begin my treatment for spastic bowels.

Saturday become a 'sit in bed and do not much else' day - which was fine by me as I was enjoying the new music that had been bought to me (the three new Manson tracks, and Placebo's which I mentioned earlier). Later that evening Kieran (my flatmate) and I battled it out on both Tekken 5 and Guitar Hero III. Naturally I was succesful in annihilating him in both games. Go me! About the only two games I can play competently. James took to the wine with our landlords, and probably slightly regretted it later... Because of the ill health I had decided against drinking for the weekend, and there's no harm in having a weekend or two off the stuff.

Sunday did not amount to much, and today, Monday I also took it easy. Being a bit overconfident and cocky as I can be at times, I decided a roast vege/chicken dish for dinner may be enjoyable on Sunday night, turns out my body didn't quite agree so this morning it was straight back to the bathroom. Apparently i'm still not the best health wise, so took the offered day off work that the doc gave me. I decided today would also be a good day to go out and start my work in photography. Unfortunately by the time James and I managed to get out and start scouting for things to take photographs of, the weather began to crap-out and I started getting exhausted so we called it quits. However now that I have Flash and Photoshop on my mac I shall be able to really start doing work on my digital manipulation projects i've been keen to get underway.


Well this is enough of a write up for now, I hope you'll keep reading on as I'll start posting up my artwork soon, critiques and comments will be appreciated!

Music and misery.....

So right now I am feeling pretty miserable. I've just spent the last 10 minutes throwing up in the bathroom and feeling like utter bollocks so I had to leave work early, which irritates me as I wanted to work a full week so i'd make some decent money next paycheck. However, my stomach seems to think otherwise. Asshole thing that it is.

However, things have not been all bad, two brand new Marilyn Manson songs have just leaked and so far, not bad. Enjoying Arma-God-Damn-Mother-Fucking-Geddon but Wow does not seem to wow me. Ironic isn't it? I already like Arma... more than most of the tracks on EMDM but that album was quite a flop all around besides 1-2 good songs.

Placebo on the other hand, have released a brilliant new song on their official website - called Battle For the Sun and I have to say, Molko is still doing great. A bit of a different tone of song for Placebo, but still definitely them. Long-ish for a Placebo song as well, clocking over 5 minutes (which isn't anything too impressive for any other band really).

Billy Corgan has one again managed to completely fuck up and destroy The Smashing Pumpkins which angers me. Why does a man who wrote such amazing and sentimental music manage to completely ruin the band? The new music they've put out since "reforming" has been crap, save the odd good song (7 Shades of Black, Zeitgeist, Ma Belle, Superchrist). Sorry Billy, but you alone on stage does not represent The Smashing Pumpkins.

Where do I begin?!

I don't think I have ever hated a job as much as I hate my current job. The job itself is not loathe-worthy, it's the attitudes of the people that are ringing up and some (mainly one) of the people I work with.

Is it so hard to understand that I am not the person who is causing you grief? can you comprehend that I am trying to help you and have offered you a resolution to your problems? It is not my fault if you do not feel it is good enough, perhaps you need to lower your standards.

I have never felt so run down and depressed by a job as I have this one. I really have to ask myself sometimes, is suffering this much really worth such a low pay rate? I bet that the people who are getting or two or three times my salary do not have to deal with so much stress and anger in one day, what makes them deserve so much more than I do?

Work ramblings

As I sit here at home relaxing after another dreary day of work I wonder why we put ourselves through such crap just for the sake of a few dollars. Sure I could be doing a worse job, and i'd probably prefer listening to stupid people ring me up and complain than I would scrubby the dry shit from an obese mans ass, but jobs really do tend to suck.


Perhaps I am just greedy in the fact that I want a dream job now, as opposed to working towards one. Well, this is not entirely true, I wouldn't mind working a bottom level job in an industry i'm interested in, and didn't have the fact that i'm out of work in a few months time looming over my head. Working in the electricity industry really, ironically enough is not electrifying. it's boring and I dislike it immensely. However, it's the people that keep me going and it sucks that today is the last day that we get to spend together as a group, as training is now officially over. I'm glad everyone enjoyed my pizza (becuase i'm such a damned good cook) but kudos to Tom for some fucking delicious fudge brownies. Honest to God those things were delectable. And Anna's pesto bread was pretty scrumptious too. I'm gonna miss socialising with everyone from my training group on a daily basis as being out in the call centre is going to make this more difficult.

We got given certificates of accomplishment and ones with quotes from our team members about ourselves. I am proud of myself to have most of my comments saying that I am an awesome guy to hang out with, whose funny and is the one to make totally inappropriate comments. It pleases me to know i'm still doing what I love, which is entertaining people. And i'm extra glad that Tom really does enjoy our walks home as I know I do.


Well enough ramblings for one day, time to eat some delicious honey soy chicken!