Sunday, Jul. 05, 2009 - 20:17

The thing was, Laslo Kiss was standing right in front of me, and some wag had written 'kick me' on a postcard (incidentally, the postcard depicted a seaside view of Swindon harbour - but I wasn't to know this fact till later, as the card was pinned with the reverse facing), hence it would have been churlish not to follow the instruction.

I wish I'd got up earlier yesterday and got into twon in time to have my hair cut. It's ridiculously bouffant and I've got this pissing course (n.b. it is not a course about pissing, it is a course I describe as 'pissing' in order to add extra emphasis to the fact I think it'll be a waste of time) where I get to meet actual new people next week. So I would prefer not to look like Carlos Valderrama.

Um. My working week - was a little busy to start with, but then on Thursday and Friday deadlines had been passed, so it was time to take stock and work out what I had left to do to solve all the problems identified, and what I'd missed doing because I've spent the last two months fighting fires, so to speak.

I'm worried about the morale of the staff in the laboratory - it's really very down due to working hours changes and additions to their job and late finishes and all that. I'm not in a position to do anything about it, alas.

The office makes me think though too - I'm very very aware of how I lack the ability to (or lack the ability to modify my behaviour sufficiently to fit the model to) behave like my office colleagues. Some of the conversations are just odd in that there's a lack of awareness of how trivial some things sound. I'm not saying I am some kind of superbrain who needs to talk about philosophy and astrophysics, it's just that day after day complaining about the weather being hot then wondering if it'll stay dry for the weekend.. well it tests my patience.

Is it just me, or has TV been extra extra crap recently? I'm not saying that there has been nuffing on, as I do like tennis and stuff, it's just that there's been relatively little that I feel I 'cannot miss'. Part of me thinks that there should be extra effort by the TV broadcasters to fill the non-footy season with stuff. That said, I acknowledge the fact that in summer, nice weather means peeps should be outside - not sat in front of the goggle box.

Today I did absolutely nothing. Federer win the tennis, I pissed about online, and I tried to muster up the awakeness to pack a bag of clothes and stuff for this course I am off on for the next two or three days.