Just watched the first episode. Totally badasss, found myself just smirking while watching it. I already know what’s going to happen because I’ve read the book, but it doesn’t take away from the show at all.

It’s sooo good, and it makes me want to go travelling soo much.

Darren and me have occasionally been talking about doing some sort of road trip sometime. Though it’s a bit hard at the moment what with lack of financial security and all at the moment. But ideally I would love to go on a bit road trip next summer. Summer 2009 is my vague target for a big road trip. Darren’s thought about driving to Australia, though we’re thinking more realistically driving to somewhere like Italy. Imagine…beating hot sun, and endless roads, new sights and sounds and visions. New people, new places, you can wake up in one country one morning, then the next morning be somewhere completely different.

Yes, by Summer next year I’m going travelling, might have to sod festivals and stuff like that though, but hey, the line ups are getting shite anyway, and festivals are becoming trendier by the year. And it’s not like I’ll have a career by then to worry about, or any real commitments. I think I would like to spend my life working, then travelling, and so forth. And when I want to settle down with a career, I’ll just be some uber freelancer, so I don’t have to deal with the office politics stuff. Or get one of those jobs that aren’t really anything to do with what you’re interested in, but pays remotely well so you can live a kinda comfortable life.

Yes. That’ll do me nicely.

Two months before I turn 24, tragic, sincerely tragic that I have barely seen anything in my life. So I must must must do some big trip before I’m 25, I don’t know why 25 as such, maybe it’s the point where I think I’ll start turning really really olde, so you know. Here goes…

Okay, so I decided to increase my web app stuff, and decided to give ‘Remember the milk‘ a spin. It’s basically a kinda cool online app for to organising to do lists. Since I decided I wanted a GTD app, then decided against a desktop based app because I’m very ‘on the go’ minded, as I like everything online so I grab at it from anywhere, I eventually settled on this site.

Bob had already mentioned remember the milk to me a while back, though I’d already read about it on lifehacker way way before that but never felt the need for it. Now I’m trying to be proactive I think tis a good idea yar. Plus the cool thing of being able to integrate it into my gcal makes it a very wise choice indeed. Essentially I can task manage from my gcal without needing to go into the RTM site. Sweett.

In other news, I’ve started to drink more coffee, though I’ve determined I’m a latte drinker, not a coffee drinker since I had a coffee for lunch and it tasted like shit, then I had another latte from the italian and it was bloody gorgeous. I think I should totally check out this latte scene, I mean I’m still mad on tea don’t get me wrong. I had a bloody awesome brew after my tests yesterday - brew from tea leaves and not bags always seem to taste better.

I’m still in a financial crisis, so the best thing I can do now is try and reduce the damage as much as I can. Fortunately I’m on my new hours from next week, so this means I can cut out costs on food, therefore my main costs will be on petrol. Unless I get a full time job - then the damage limitation will be better. I need to push to make money though, must must must, the key is in the money.

Hehe had a slight banter earlier on twitter about needing to win the lottery, and Bob suggested we used the numbers in Lost to see if we’d win it, though I pointed out I was already unlucky enough as it is!

Right, am busy-busy, but first…photos…

Alright, alright so I’ve decided to take some basic principles that have been highlighted on lifehacker anndd related to some GTD principles.

I’ve made a new list of things to do, but I’m now trying to break down larger tasks to smaller tasks as much as possible. So there’s a list of tasks, and a list of main objectives that will be fulfilled eventually.

The idea is that I’m currently aiming to try and do two things on the tasks list a day, but in order, so I’ve purposely listed them in the order they should be done. Though I’m still giving allowance for adjustments and addition of tasks as they come up. Plus I also have an ongoing tasks list, like reading and stuff, though I may eradicate that eventually if it proves obsolete.

Oh yeah, also it seems I woke up to some play.com package awaiting me. I think to myself ‘hmm this is odd I don’t remember buying anything off play lately’ - I open it, and out pops a copy of Getting Things Done. Ahh that Bob, he’s the only one who would have done it. Now I may or may not read it, but for now I’m going to give this new system a crack.

Two days to go ^_^

Urgh, just when I thought I just about had everything under control again, everything has started coming undone at the seams.

I am now pretty much screwed financially, as according to my bank I’m no longer a graduate, so yeah - bye bye interest free.

Fuck.

Plus I’ve been encouraged by the folks to go work my way up a company till I get into ‘management’ (as apparently I have no chance in hell to do what I did at uni as a job now) - I don’t want to get into management, I don’t want to be in management, I don’t drink enough alcohol or flirt with people for starters. Management are for people who want to be in management - they can go dance rings around each other, just leave me out of it.

No no no, it’s all going wrong, it wasn’t meant to beeeee this way, I wasn’t meant to be here two years on, I was meant to be somewhere else. London, Paris, the WORLD - I could have ended up anywhere but I’m still here.

GArrr.

I should be more distraught than I’m currently am, though the way I see it, I know it’s just life trying to shove me a little, it’s upsetting my little micro sense of false stability to try and provoke a reaction out of me. It knows I only save my ass if the situation is a desperate one and if I don’t save my ass then I’m screwed.

So basically, this means I won’t be spending money, having any form of social life (par that which is already planned), oh and I’ll be trying very hard to freelance* the fuck out of everything.

Ah…why can’t life just let me have a breather for once. It’s once thing after the other, unemployment, chicken pox, financial crisis yada yada.

(* No that is not an euphemism for something else)

While I was ill and housebound I have been somewhat terrible and slipped into quite a few old habits along the way. These include; chewing my nails off, being a nocturnalist, being evasive of everything by watching stuff, thinking too much, hanging around on the board wayyy too much and mainly just not being proactive.

Not good, think I need to actively get going again.

Though I just caned through a bag of kettle chips.

Dammit.

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I’m restless.

I can’t even pick music I feel like listening to, though I’ve seemingly settled on some K’s Choice for now.

I went to some gardens nearish me, it’s changed lots, well not really it seems to be in development again, as in new gardens I’m guessing and there’s a new section of buildings being constructed too. Interesting. But yeah, I went there with the intent of doing what I always do now these days, find somewhere to sit down with a brew (and in this case some cream tea action), then get out my notebook and just write.

These days I’m not even sure what the writing achieves, but I enjoy it, and I think it’s a good way of clearing out the junk in my head. Same way as use this blog I guess.

I don’t know.

I’ve been saying that a lot lately. And and I think I figured out that the reason I keep going away somewhere to write is because I’m expecting to find the answers that I’ve been seeking for a long time to suddenly appear out of no where. But answers can’t be found, they have to find you, else I’m sure I would have found them by now. Unless the answers have been here all along, and I’ve just ignored them…?

Ugh. I’m just generally finding it hard living with my mind/brain/conciousness at the moment. And I’m still sleeping really lightly too, so I don’t feel like I’m getting a proper night’s sleep. And I’ve been awful and chewing off my nails on by one.

I don’t know.

I wish I was a duck, a life of a duck would be so much easier.

Mwhaha! I think I’m finally free of the curse of the pox, and most importantly I got through the weekend of knowing I should have been in a field…(Though I was talking to Nick last night and actually I might have been better off with the Pox than being at Download (then again I did miss KISS who sounded awesome :() what with the crazy shit that went on.)

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