07.22.03 - 05:43am
I was going to have a quiet night yesterday and then I heard that Jeffrey Archer had been released, so I drank some cheap red wine and then some Stella Artois. By about 9:30 I felt the urge to regain an albeit skewed clarity so I reached into my pocket for the floral wherewithal, only [...]
07.16.03 - 05:09am
Jesus. Yesterday was hard work. Instead of feeling like a grown man with a wife and a child and a clear-eyed view of the world and his place in it I felt like a 16 year-old girl who has pitched up late for her A-Level Sociology class and then burst into tears when asked a [...]
07.14.03 - 07:30am
Apologies once again for the ugly dearth of diary entries lately. Ironically this is often due to things happening in my life. I am particularly apologetic to those who have been trying to waste time at work and have found themselves wasting their time. I know I experience a deep sense of loss when I [...]
07.06.03 - 08:07am
Had to go back to the job centre on Friday, which felt like a salmon’s journey upstream to the spawning point. Not sure if I’ve got my zoology correct there but that’s what it felt like anyway. Kept trying to remind myself that, within certain parameters, I was in charge of my own destiny. I [...]
07.02.03 - 05:10am
Today feels like a writing day, since I always write better with a hangover. My perception is all spiky and brutal and I get kind of manic. A series of unlikely events led me to drink an unwise amount of Stella Artois last night, although the way I’m feeling about Stella today makes me think [...]
07.02.03 - 05:06am
Spent a portion of this afternoon wandering around charity shops with a young monkey in an effort to increase his video collection and expand the amount of time that I wasn’t answering the questions that occur to young monkeys with machine-gun curiosities and almost no idea of what is going on. Bought one video which [...]