January 2008
34 posts
January 30th, 2008
Oh dear. I don’t appear to remember anything of yesterday. Well, I remember getting to work for 9, but then its pretty much a blur until much later on. How odd. I was probably drunk. Speaking of being drunk, I thought I’d write something about being drunk. Not here, like a screenplay kind of thing. What I do remember is how much it sucks that Jeremy Beadle died!! I always found him...
January 29th, 2008
I seem to remember having a lot of odd dreams this morning (since I slept till about 1). The one that I really remember was not Harry Potter themed this time. It started as I got off the school bus, carrying a bulky bag and some kind of folder. An old man approached me. He looked homeless, but the kind of self-respecting homeless man who does good with what he’s got, so he looked...
January 28th, 2008
I woke up this morning in agonising pain. My last wisdom tooth was coming throughat the bottom right of my mouth and it made the whole of my lower jaw ache like hell. There was a constant feeling of needing to push my jaw in an odd direction until it clicked, but this did nothing. Conveniently, I already had a dentists appointment at 10.40am today, so I could ask the dentist about it then. I hate...
January 27th, 2008
Today is the 40th birthday of my favourite singer, Mr. Mike Patton. This means that my two favourite artists, the other being Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, are both over 40. They still rock. A Happy Birthday to Mike. Now that I don’t have a car, I have to walk to work, which takes about 30 minutes. Since I was starting at 10am today, I didn’t fancy the walk at all. It was cold out...
January 26th, 2008
Interesting story to tell from today. I was walking home from town after buying a new shirt and a thing for my dad’s phone when I recieved a text message from an unrecognised number that said something about ‘you tell him’ this and ‘im not a slut’ that. I texted back with ‘wrong number much?’ and they apologised and explained that it was a wrong number....
January 25th, 2008
Back to work today, which was not welcome. I work up very late as well so kinda scrambled around and drove off looking a state. At around 3, I got a call from Sam, the guy interested in my car. He confirmed that he definitely wanted to go ahead with it and asked if that evening was possible. I was surprised, but happy nonetheless! He said he’d call back later to sort stuff out. I told my...
January 24th, 2008
ALEX’S ADVENTURES IN LONDON CONTINUE….NOW. I forgot to mention that the whole purpose of my visit to London was to pick up a visa for my visit to India. Only India and Australia ask for us to have visas for our visit and from our experience of both, India need to take a leaf out of Australia’s book. With Australia, you type in your passport details, the details of your trip and...
January 23rd, 2008
Something exciting! Yay! I hung around for ages this morning waiting to go into town and then catch my train off to London. I felt like I had lots to do in town, so prepared to set off at 12. Then I realised that all I really had to do was post something, so prepared to set off at 1, for my train at 2. Then I realised that my train wasn’t actually till 2:50, so I didn’t leave till 2. ...
January 22nd, 2008
I was saddened to hear about Heath Ledger. Whilst I didn’t really like A Knight’s Tale and have never got around to watching Brokeback Mountain, I know that he is gonna be awesome in Dark Knight later this year and that I probably would have enjoyed his acting more after that. Unfortunately, it is not to be now. I read about it on Digg, and a large chunk of the comments went something...
January 21st, 2008
I enjoy it when I have time off work, although the days go incredibly slowly because I dont do anything. To make things worse I was up early today because someone was coming to view my car. He said he’d be here at 8:30, but it was more like 11 that he arrived, which annoyed me. He was a friendly eastern european type fella, with a wife and a baby in the car. He looked at the car for a bit,...
So bored
So I have decided to put the films I’ve watched since new year in order of good-ness. So here it is, the top 14 films I’ve watched so far in 2008. I might keep this as a regular thing. 14. Sleeping Dogs 13. I Am Legend 12. Friday 11. Beverly Hills Cop 10. Goodfella’s 9. Superbad 8. City of Lost Children 7. Science of Sleep 6. Shawshank Redemption 5. American Psycho 4. The Usual...
January 20th, 2008
I’ve had plenty of calls from people about my car now and they all seem interested at the start of the call, but then say thing like ‘well, we’ll think about it’ at the end and never call back. What am I saying that’s wrong?! It’s pissing me off. I had an amazing lunch prepared by my brother. Cheesy buns with chicken and ‘cheese food slices’ (because...
January 19th, 2008
Over to Anna’s again this evening and we watched a movie called ‘Sleeping Dogs’. Anna picked it up from work because she wanted a rom-com and this one looked quite good as it had a man and a woman lying in bed on the front with a dog in the middle. Looks harmless and cute. But we all know not to judge a book by it’s cover, especially if that book is a DVD. I think the first...
January 18th, 2008
After work today, we all went out bowling for Tom’s leaving do. There were 8 of us, 4 on each lane, and we played 2 games. The first one was dominated by yours truly, a magnificent score of 148 (second place being about 120), and I came in close third in the second game. I can be proud of this :). Afterwards, we played on the arcade games. I played Mario Kart with Harry and Tinder and rocked at...
January 17th, 2008
So my car failed her MOT. Not on the rear wiper thing though, it was because my headlights were dipped a little too low. However, as I said yesterday, the guy I took her too is a bit of a legend, so he just realigned them and passed my car. Woop. The early trip to Stratford made me knackered, so as soon as I got back home at 10am, I fell straight back to sleep again, fully clothed, until 12:30. In...
January 16th, 2008
I took my car in for her MOT today. I was worried that she wouldnt make it because my rear wiper hasn’t been working after SOMEONE schoolboyed me recently. But I also felt safe in the knowledge that the guy I had taken it to was a bit of a legend and if he finds any faults he just sorts them and passes you anyway. I hope someone comes forward soon to buy my car because I really really need...
January 15th, 2008
I hate meetings and training at work. It always involves talking for ages and being told what to do for about an hour, and the message that we always end up with is ‘sell more stuff’. Today’s was the same. We had a bloke called Craig come in to talk to us about the ‘digital lifestyle’, which is a pretentious way of saying gadgets. Basically, we began selling MP3...
January 14th, 2008
This day was all about dreams. My film for the day was Science of Sleep. Tres bien indeed. A film by Michel Gondry, who I already love because of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, and I am also muchly looking forward to Be Kind, Rewind in February (Jack Black remakes classic films like Robocop and the Lion King, sounds amazing). Science of sleep is about a young man who often confuses dreams...
January 13th, 2008
I’m beginning to forget what happens on previous days. Probably in my old age, but also probably because not a whole lot happens. Today was a long, tedious 8 hour shift day, highlighted only by my boss going a bit mental at me right at the end, I hadn’t even done anything that bad! Basically, this guy, my sort of age, wanted to return Red Steel, but then re-buy it by trading in a game...
January 12th, 2008
Kayleigh went off on her gap year adventure today- 6 whole months in South Africa. It’s come around really quickly, and it’s made me realise it’s really not long until we’re off. I was awoken by the sound of post dropping this morning. I leapt out of bed hoping it was something for me and sure enough it was. I got a letter from STA travel containing my International Student...
January 11th, 2008
Another slow going day. My Dad took my brother to school, so I was allowed a bit of a lie in. I woke up for a little bit and remembered I’d said that I’d meet up with Manj as he was off back to uni the next day, so I texted him. I fell asleep again, but was soon woken up by Manj calling me. When I recieve phone calls that wake me up, I just say ‘yeah’ until the person hangs...
Also
American Spaced?!!?!?!?? This is blasphemy! This is madness! Apparently Edgar Wright isn’t too happy with it, so hopefully it wont go ahead. Cos we know they’ll just ruin it. Don’t worry your hairy little chest, Leo. It’ll be ok. Pegg, Wright and Frost are making a third film for their ‘Blood and Ice Cream’ Trilogy :) Apparently this time the flavour will be...
January 10th, 2008
A nice day off. Which is good because everyone’s probably bored half to death by me always talking about work. But then, work is essentially the big part of my life at the moment, so it’s all I really have to talk about. Whilst I hate having to get up so early to give my brother a lift to school (partially because I could be having a lie in and patially because the area around his...
January 9th, 2008
I was pretty sure 7 o’clock didn’t happen twice in a day. But today, it did. Up at 6 30am to start work at 7 and I was unusually awake. I think it’s because it was so early that I’d barely got to sleep the night before. For the three and a half hour before we opened, we checked inventory. This literally involved scanning every disc we have, just to see if...
January 8th, 2008
Slack day today, I’m afraid. I bought Harry a McDonalds, which I consider my good deed, but I didn’t watch a movie and generally did fuck all all day. Another trip to the doctors saw my top up of hepatitis. The jab of course. I heard that if you cough when you get an injection, it relaxes the muscles in your arm and it goes in easier. I coughed and it just made my arm jerk towards the...
January 7th, 2008
I didn’t have work till 2 today, and still I was up at 9. Today, however, it was because my brother was back at school and I volunteer to take him in return for petrol money from mine papa. Also, I had a doctors appointment at 9.30 and was excited about it because it would cover another step towards my trip. When I reached the doctors and the nurse called me in, another nurse popped her head...
January 6th, 2008
Work at 10am. Ugh. It was very dead at work, so we watched National Treasure, and everyone knows that I just love Nicholas Cage, so that combined with the early start was lovely. I am being sarcastic. I just read that over and it sounds like I love early starts and Nicholas Cage. I despise both. At lunchtime, Harry and I went to KFC and he ordered an absolute banquet for £18. He always buys me...
January 5th, 2008
Staggering home by myself after Grace’s night out, I began talking to myself. I kept making obscure comments about the two constellations I recognise. I kept saying ‘Orion? He’s mental! He’s out every night living it up. He has a sword that looks like his cock’ and ‘The big dipper. Is that named because it looks like a giant spoon? I think so. It’s also...
January 4th, 2008
I got paid today, which was nice after the Christmas onslaught. I decided to see if I could gain any more money by playing Deal or No Deal online, with real money. I put on a fiver and gradually built on that by accepting any deals that meant I got a profit. However, this worked against me when I accepted an offer of £6, when my box contained £50. Gutted. The moral of the story is Noel Edmonds...
January 3rd, 2008
I had work today at 12. Whenever I have work before 1pm, I have a problem, in that I like to sleep in as much as is possible, but whenever I wake up, I look like death for about 90 minutes afterwards. So today, I woke up at about 11:15, and wandered into work with people saying ‘you look tired’ a lot, which is always met with a grunt and/or a ‘I’ve just got up...
January 2nd, 2008
New Years Resolutions aren’t easy to keep. We all know this. And that is the excuse I am using for not keeping a few of mine after 1 whole day. I didn’t manage to watch a film today. Nor did I manage to do a good deed (although I’m ok with that one seeing as the resolution was ‘at least every other day’). But I shall catch up. It’s not like I avoided doing these...
January 1st, 2008
I’ve decided to try and make my life a teeny bit more interesting with a couple of new years resolutions: 1. Every day, watch a film that I’ve never seen before. 2. Do a good deed at least every other day. 3. Find something within my day to write about, even if its just a little bit. I shall write about all three of these things on a day to day basis. 1/1/08 The new year started for me...