I was tempted - and gave in - to walking home from work the other night with a cocktail stick in my mouth. I thought it would be cool. It was not cool. It was, in fact, so not cool that once I had walked in to the more populated area of town, I proceeded to started to use it in the way that it should actually be used and started scraping at the gaps in my teeth. I was so uncomfortable to swagger home with a little piece of wood in my mouth that to cover it up, I started to pick at my teeth. I don't want to do either in future. So I won't. Lesson learnt.
I watched Aladdin the other day - just because the DVD player didn't work. Otherwise I would have had to have watched diamond-boy, spade-in-the-face drivel; Twilight. I'm so happy the DVD player wasn't working. Even though I haven't seen Aladdin for well over 12 years now, it turns out that I saw the film so much as a kid that I was still able to quote the film (to myself so as not to annoy the other film watchers) and have the inexplicably warm feeling of knowing what was going to be said next, who was going to say it and what intonations and emphases they were going to put on the words. It gave me a sense of smug, self-satisfaction that I am now eager to find again by watching every other film from my childhood. Or The Princess Bride. Me and my dad just quote that all the way through when it's on. We're not geeks.
Yesterday, I was given the chance to go to Alton Towers. It was going to cost quite a bit, but the offer was there nonetheless. Because of the cost, I declined. This was a mistake. Although it meant that I was able to sleep in until 11:50 this morning, I was woken up at this point by my little brother. It turns out that he is there, too. That would have been enough to sway my decision to go, but to add insult to absence from Alton Towers, Derren Brown is there today as well. Great. Oh well, I guess. At least I slept through the gym time I'd set aside for myself today and got up with aching shoulders and a headache. I think I could be the winner of this situation.
I listened to the Stephen Merchant show yesterday on listen again. I'm quite a fan of his laid-back-but-quick-talking manner. It was not so long into the show when he read out a text saying (paraphrasing) "I love the show and want to thank you. I moved to Norway from England a few years ago and, listening to your show is one of the things that I look forward to every week. I get up at 7:30 in the morning every sunday to hear the show because it reminds me of how funny people are back home. Thank you."
This was followed by the announcement that the show was finishing next week.
This isn't the best week for me at the moment, it would seem.
So there it is, friends. Another installment of vaguely filtered piffle. It would appear that my filter is set to arbitrary. I'm going to go and do some work, now. I needed to do lots of work over the Easter holidays, but I thought that I wolud have a break. (Because obviously spending two and a half weeks in America and coming back two days before the term ended wasn't enough). I'll probably only end up drawing something completely unrelated but hey, at least I can post it here.
I'll talk again soon, no doubt.
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