Because Paper's Water Soluble

[matt-the-gr7]

Junk; as a subject, and as content.

Back at work today. :wishy:

Wasn’t as bad as I thought it'd would be, but the whole ‘getting up’ thing really took me out. I’ve been used to getting up at 12ish so getting up at 7 was a bitch. Hey, only another 4 days ‘till I can lie in again right?

Had to tape ‘Six Feet Under’ last night ( one of the best damn shows on Tv ) as I was watching ‘Idle Hands’ on the sci-fi channel. That film was actually really cool, until it lost it at the end kinda. Anyways, I realised I’ve got about 8 hours of stuff on tape that I’ve never watched. You just slam in the video and tape whatever, then totally forget about it for like a month or so. I’m gonna have to watch some of it as I need to play catch up with some of the stuff I watch when I’ve missed an episode here and there.

Tonight I’ve given it a miss though, ( got a headache, and I don’t think staring at a Tv screen all night would help )

It’s that time again in our house when my parents decide ‘It’s time we tidied up all this junk’ which basically means that nothing is safe. I know everything I’ve got in my room, and although yes, a lot of it is indeed junk, it’s junk that I want to keep. For instance the ‘crap shelf’ that houses all those little free things you get in cereal and the like.

I’m gonna become one of those old dudes who has a wall full of meaningless shit that no one cares about, that they force on others when they visit huh? Ah well.

Wow, that really was a whole bunch of pointless crap huh? Next post I’ll aim for something interesting. A list of something maybe. Guys like lists. I’m pretty sure that’s a scientifically proven fact and all that.

Who knows, maybe something interesting’ll happen and I’ll spill. The info, not like blood or anything.

 

[matt-the-gr7]

'Don't call us, we'll call you'

As you may have noticed a lot of my posts are dominated by me bitching about my job. Yeah, thought you had.

Something good happened today. Not great, but good.

I went on this ‘Interview Skills’ course about two, maybe three months back now, where I was given the chance to go through 3 mock interviews. ( that’s right kids, all the fun of a nerve wracking interview being examined, and stared at by people you don’t know, with none of the financial or career stabilising rewards ). It went well. I did okay, and learned some useful stuff. ( a rare occurrence in most training courses that you attend through compulsion )

Anyway, that was then, this is now. ( Really? No shit, that’s so Zen ) I got a message this morning to call one of the people who was acting as an interviewer ( he’s earned the name ct2106 ). I called him. He told me of a placement opening up in one of the departments and that I should apply for it. I’m trying not to read into it too much.

I really want to be employed, properly, thus ending my ‘Trainee’ status and earning a decent wage instead of ‘Training Allowance’ which is a poor, poor substitute.

I’m scheduled to be moving anyway at the start of September to another Training Placement, they still haven’t told me anything about it though, such as where it is, what I’d be doing, or basically anything about it other than ‘We’re gonna move you’.

I’ve been assured it’s to help with completing my qualification, and gaining new experience. Not that I’m shit and they want to get rid of me. I believe them.

Who knows, by the time I start there I could be on my way to ‘getting a real job’. Something my parents have been yelling at me to do for the past year.

It may not happen, but then again it might. Right now I’m just in a good mood to think that I made a good enough impression that this guy thought of me, and took the trouble to phone me. Most people wouldn’t have done that, most would maybe have given it a passing thought, and then decided ‘screw it, I’ll go out and get a sandwich’ or something similar.

Thanks ct2106, even if nothing happens with this, I still appreciate it.

 

[matt-the-gr7]

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Tv shows I like, for one reason, the other reason, or through a genetic pre-disposal to the tackier side of Tv.

Six Feet Under
Oz
Daria
Married With Children
Eerie Indianna
Lexx
Teachers
Dangermouse
Star Trek: Voyager
Captain Scarlet and The Mysterons
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Farscape
That 70’s Show
Dark Angel
X-men Evolution
Red Dwarf
Stargate SG1

You might know most, or at least a few of those, the others, I’m not sure about where they broadcast worldwise or if they’re still showing. Anyway, that’s what I while away the hours watching, neat huh?

There’s a bunch more obviously, but that’d make the list huge, and the ones there are the ones that I always think ‘Man I love that show’ whenever I watch them.

 

[matt-the-gr7]

Try to keep inside the lines.

I used to draw all the time, well maybe ‘draw’ is too skilled a word. I doodled. A lot.

I’m pretty decent in my own right, as long as it was cartoony, surreal stuff. If I tried to draw anything life like it ended up looking really bad. Used to fill up whole notepads with pictures and random scribbles while I was at high school and college.
I think I still have them somewhere along with all my notes and bits of paper from then.

I just thought about it the other day when my brother asked me to draw something for him for school. I tried. I failed. He still used it, but I think that’s because he can be one lazy-ass slacker sometimes, and it saved him the effort of trying.

It used to be my wind down y’know? Something to do that chilled me out, made me feel good. I only ever draw on the computer now when I’m at work without much to do. Just doodle stuff on paint, or mess around with pictures.

It was usually logos and weird writing, sometimes a freaky person or animal thing. Always drew stuff like a name in weird lettering or a stylised letter, logo/graphic type things. I still go mostly for that stuff, it looks shitty if you look at it with ‘art’ in mind, but if you look at it with ‘random doodling’ in your head it looks pretty cool. Does that make sense? Ah well.

I really should get back to that, or find something. I need something creative to do. Okay I’m no creative genius, but I’m bored, and I’ve got the restrained feeling, when you feel like you just have to do something or you’ll burst, but you have no idea what it is that you need to do. Hey maybe I could try wood carving or ice sculpture huh?

 

[matt-the-gr7]

Request

By the way, does anyone know of any decent free web hosts? I want to try and put together a site, nothing great. Probably not even that good, but I still want to go for it, and since it'll probably collapse under the weight of my begginerism, or die through neglect due to my short attention span I thought I'd go with a free site.

I know Yahoo and Geocities give you free web space but I don't like them, don't ask why, they just annoy me. I heard topcities was good, but I've yet to look into that.

 

[matt-the-gr7]

I've decided to quit writing this journal.

It's not going anywhere, and the palces it's been its tracked muddy footprints through. I was at the beggining aiming to write something about me that would be vaguely interesting or at least funny.

I failed.

It ended up being an account of me tedious life. I've had some views, not loads but a few, but i assume that these are the journal-junkies who will read anything to pass the time.

I'd still like to go on writing something journal like, but I'm now feeling that this isn't the place to do it. I had doubts in the first place as it's an improv site. I ignored that as there was this 'off-topic' forum, but now i've come to see that I'm way too off topic and dull to keep this going here.

Any suggestions on another place i can post would be appreciated, I'm not looking for a message board site, something like this where you can start a thread only you can post in.

G'Bye Now.