Oookay, let us have a teeny tiny sum up of the last two weeks. Starting with the good news, Joe has a job. It’s a big relief and I’m really happy about it, although I had to ask the big boss lady to shorten my shifts. The last two days my friend and I had a so-called trial at this restaurant in a holiday kinda town called Clarach. It’s basically a fish and chips shop – “The Great British takeaway”! The first day we went early and cleaned everything and then I did some work on the ice-cream kiosk. Yesterday they put me where the real deal is, haha – frying and preparing the food. We finished at 10pm and they showed us our shifts – from 12 noon till 10 in the evenings every day except Thursday. Let me make it clear that I didn’t mind that work at all – it’s pretty fun and time flies when there are customers, but because of my discopathy my back wouldn’t take all this pressure of standing up for 10 hours everyday. Plus I still need to study for my essays, so I asked if I could take the cleaning job in the morning for just 3 hours. I know it’s not 60 hours a week like it was initially, but I have no intention of risking my health any further. It might sounds stupid, or silly or whatever you wanna call it, but I’m actually a bit glad to discover that for me, money isn’t everything. I still need it, I’m very grateful I got this job, but my health comes first (selfish, selfish Joe).
Apart from that, everything else is fine. In fact, a lot of good things happened to me at once, out of nowhere, and I know that this is never a good sign, so I’m wary and waiting for karma to knock me out pretty soon. Hopefully it won’t, but I will still be waiting.
Now, the bad news is….. there are no new scribbles. My condolences to you! And now, if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to explore the battles of the Somme!
Friday, July 29, 2011
…and tell me, please, oh, is this broken?
Friday, July 8, 2011
Do I really need a title?
The last 3 posts were just scribbles without Joe trying to be funny, so I guess it’s time to make an entry. To briefly explain the scribbles first, Requiem was sort of a story that came to my mind after reading a poem. My humble opinion was that it could make a nice drama-like movie situated in the 1960s, but given that I’m never gonna be a movie director or a script writer, I thought it could at least take the form of something resembling a poem. And the perfect song to go with it - again, in my opinion – is the Dismantled cover of Morningstar by AFI. As for Floor of Shame – I had an empty document titled like that for quite some time, and I knew I wanted to make fun of a certain type of people. Namely, the people who think themselves better than others, who mock and make fun of the different and have zero to none real values in their lives. And the verse in the previous post, I guess it can be put with the shorter ones without a name that I’ve put together. Not much to say about it, really, I think it speaks for itself. As for the person it is about, let me just call them Harry.
In other news, my exam results came out today, and I’m more than proud to say I’ve taken all of them this time! With good marks, too. And to think I was on the verge of receiving a heart attack yesterday over this. This is the first time I have higher marks in Politics than in Psychology, which was the bigger shock. I’m especially happy about my Political Theory mark – I guess when you truly enjoy something, it pays back. Thank you, Hobbes, thank you, Locke, thank you, Rousseau, thank you, Godwin, and thank you, Bakunin! (for the record, I’m not talking about LOST characters) I wish I could take a similar module in my third year, but alas, that’s not going to happen. Too bad, we had a kickass lecturer!
This is pretty much all I have to say for now. Not that I’m that boring, but because I would give information that I do not want some people reading this blog to know. Because sometimes, people just don’t know when to quit!