......when you're also working a full-time job; this is the lesson I have learned this week. How the hell do so many of you people do it?! I've been finishing work this week at 7 and have been knackered. Just knackered. I s'pose not having t'internet at home doesn't help... but still. I can see that entries are going to become few and far between now. Perhaps this will lead to an upturn in the general quality? Or perhaps not. Probably not.
As it is, I am truly knackered now and have got work tomorrow morning again. Borders is turning out ok, to be truthful. People are nice - and most of the time not nice in the Uniformly Nice So You'll Please Love Our Shop way, which is a bonus - and the banter is of a higher quality than I have been used to in previous retail jobs; always a crucial factor. I'm working in the kids section, although I haven't started because training doesn't finish til tomorrow - looking forward to it, kids are nice enough, and the other two members of the kids section both seem sound as a dollarpound. Also, the boss has let me book my holiday to Wales at the end of September, and there's a weekly 5-a-side, so it all seems good.... if a bit, I don't know, soulless. But maybe that will improve with time.
I really want to go on about my weekend at Greenbelt, where I attended numerous seminars and discussions, both religious and non-religious. In fact the better talks were the latter, which appealed massively to the remnants of my lefty/liberal student values (which I suppose will be eroded by the day once ensconced in Borders's corporate bosom) - e.g. is Fairtrade really fair or is it now just a booster for brands? And some interesting talks on the death penalty worldwide, including an interview with a guy who was wrongly placed on Death Row from 1981 to 2004 - fucking insane, man. He escaped in 1985, almost by accident, but handed himself in after 25 days on the FBI most wanted list. And then went through another 19 years! Eventually new DNA technology led to a retrial and he was exonerated... but what a way to spend 23 years. He didn't seem too bitter which I find incredibly hard to believe. I'd be fucking livid, all the time...... but then I guess I can't say that til I've been there. Anyway, I digress: the weekend was great, just what I wanted/needed. I am now all stoked up in an altruistic kinda way and want to find Nice Helpful Things to do for people I don't know in the near future - be it weekly, or in the form of a big trip away somewhere. I dunno... at the moment I've got a lot of nice sentiments floating around my head, a vague desire to do something I'd call good, but it's in no way focused. Time will tell; hopefully this feeling won't just evaporate (see "corporate bosom").
Football: Tevez and Mascherano - weeeeeeee-ird. Very very weird, even. Something fishy. Nothing fishy about Sibierski to Newcastle; that's just plain odd.
Tennis: well, Henman did better against the Fed than he did at Wimbledon. Scant consolation, but, well, it's something....... Murray, meanwhile. What a guy! 6-0, 6-1, 6-1 - when Henman and Rusedski were in their pomp, I do not recollect them ever winning so comprehensively, be it in a slam or in some lesser event. Murray lost 7 points in the first set. Seven points! Wow, bloody hell. He's up against Fernando Gonzalez next, who if I remember correctly tends to hit the ball bloody hard - so I'd expect our Andy to use his sliced backhand a lot, slow the points down, hope Gonzalez fucks up... maybe come to the net and see how he is at passing. I'm sure Brad Gilbert has 101 clever things up his sleeve. Anyway, Gonzalez is seeded 10th and Murray only 17th, so this is technically as far as he's 'supposed' to progress. Not sure if that'll stop him, however, as he seems to be shit-hot at the moment. I never did place that fiver bet so if he wins the whole shebang I'm going to be crying through my joy.
Right. I am tired and I want a PINT really badly. I have lagged recently in my correspondance with other people on here, sorry - I'll make amends soon. But not now. Now, I want a pint...