Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009 - 00:02

Because it is late, and also since I'm not sure I have a massive fuckload to say..

1. Work's been generally a little stressy, but not awful. There's just been too much to do, and too many times when I have been frustrated by the lack of competance of some of my employees. The Quality System seems to reward 'turning a blind eye' (or just plain lying) as well, which must be against it's intentions. When everything you DO notice and comment on needs analysing and reporting on in triplicate, the only way to get through it all is to fudge so hard it turns into toffee.

2. Had a bit of indigestion this past couple of days. Monday night held repeated gastric reflux, which was pretty fucking unpleasant, and yesterday and today have been affected by discomfort and constipation. Not sure what's up - probably a mixture of stress and bad diet.

3. I was wondering idly earlier on what I'd be like if I was a woman. I'm not saying I feel like I'm the wrong gender or 'owt - I'm just thinking hypothetically. How would the personality characteristics I have be reflected in a woman of my age? I dunno.. I think perhaps my lack of regard for what others think of me might make me even more unpopular as a female, and I am gobby and opinionated too (which is probably not yet as well accepted for lasses as it is for lads?). There's an extent perhaps to which I could look at my sister for some idea of what I might be like. I'm similar to her in many ways.

4. Compiled a break of 118 on snooker on my ol' xbox this evening, which was pleasing. OK, it's pretty insignificant.

5. I think I can hear an owl. Some kind of birdie outside making twit-twoo sounds - admittedly it could be a pigeon of some kind :-)

6. Enjoying that book about virus hunters, though am slightly impatient to finish it and move onto something different and fictional. It's an interesting read on the train home, but it rarely grabs me and refuses to be put down at other parts of the day.

7. That 'Boys & Girls Alone' prog yesterday was OK - not as upsetting as the first episode, though it did produce some challenging bits and pieces. Girls succumbing to peer pressure to smoke fake cigarettes was an interesting one, as were some of the events that followed one person from each group taking a 'leader' role in sorting shopping and budgeting.. and how the rest of each cohort turned against them.

8. Also seemingly worthy of comment was something about superskinny vrs supersize, which I had on in the background (mute) while I chatted to my ma on the phone. It seemed to be based on a young skinny woman swapping diets with a really fat asian bloke, with lots of fairly symbolic standing at tables handing plates to each other. It did involve a lot of the two of them standing around in their underwear too (partic unflattering beige bra/knicker set actually, on the lass) which seemed unnecessarily cruel for two people who obviously had body issues. The rather lupine Dr. Chritian Jesson looked on in inimitable styleeeee.

9. Weather isn't quite so cold - partly external factors being less frigid, partly the heating working in my flat once more. Whichg helps :-)

10. England lost 2-0 to Spain in a friendly this evening. Wasn't too bad a performance - the Spainards are a good side, and an under-strength England team generally matched them, except w.r.t. finishing ratio.

LISTENING TO:- various things in the last few days. Bit of Sandy Denny, some Cold, White Lies and The Cardigans.