the week from hell

monetary anarchy, fiscal debacle. i spent this past entire week living on a measly 66p in my purse. i credited my paycheck into my account last Wednesday, and it just only cleared today! so for the past seven days, i've had a negative balance in my bank, meaning i could not withdraw any money or charge anything. i SO hated my bank this week. my morning routine for the past week has been: wake up, then call the bank to see if my check had cleared. why oh why does it take eight working days to clear a small tiny check when it only takes a day and a half for my dad to wire thousands of pounds from thousands of miles away?! the logic astounds and amazes me.

anyway now with my money in, the first thing i did was head down into town to buy more boards for my model, because i ran out of boards on Tuesday and had no money to buy any more. see, having no money at all was good in a way because it kept me home instead of roaming town distracting myself from work... but i couldn't do any work because i ran out of material! talk about timing.

i think Jerome is still around. in bed last night i heard a little "tk" coming from the radiator. so it could be something crackling in the radiator... like maybe one of the heat tubes expanding or contracting or something, but then again i haven't used the radiator in weeks so i'm thinking that it's Jerome, somewhere... maybe he's living in the radiator now. i suppose i don't really mind having him around... he hasn't shit on anything yet, or chewed anything (that i know of) and he more or less leaves me alone. so maybe he can be sort of like a happenstance pet. i had a happenstance lizard once, named George. he lived on the ceiling of my room in KL. i had another happenstance lizard once back home, who used to live in my little red Mini. he'd sit at the base of the windshield and accompany me on my drive to work. he was named George the Second, cos George is a good lizard name. then my dad found him and killed him, because my dad hates lizards. hates them with a passion.

i have another check waiting to be cleared... so a little bit more money should be in my account by the middle of next week. this weekend, lots of catching up to be done with my model & drawings. plus i'm working at Anfield the whole day tomorrow, and then begging for money for charity at night.

goddamnmotherbitcherwhorifyingasskickingdogfacedshitlicker i just want to go to bed and not wake up til winter, when the weather's as miserable as i am.

Jerome etc.

i haven't seen or heard from Jerome in a while now, so i assume that he's gone, which is good.

i'm watching Prison Break on TV now, it's the last episode of the season and although lots of things are doing on i don't really know what's happening cos i haven't actually seen the other episodes. the Michael guy has a nicely shaped head though, and that bald look works well on him. i do wonder, if they make it out of the prison, then where does that leave them with Season 2? or will there be no Season 2? or maybe this episode ends with a cliffhanger and they get to try again next season? or maybe they make it out this time, but next season will show another set of prisoners trying to break out of another prison.

oh the new Tomb Raider game is out now! being broke as i am though i'll have to wait months until the price comes down, or until i can get some cheap pre-owned copy in town.

i ate so much today food is coming out my nose. plates of rice, pieces of chicken, bowl of profiteroles, i have been such a pig today.

tomorrow, along with cashing my paycheck (yaay!!), i'm off to catch Inside Man (Denzel... yum).

oh hey, Prison Break just finished and turns out that wasn't the final episode. it ended with a cliffhanger though, so i'm definitely catching next week's episode! good lord i do need to get myself a life!

variations en Rongeur

i watched Amadeus on Friday evening. was quite disappointed with it... Mozart was annoying, and i wanted to kill him just as much as Salieri did. in fact the best scene, i think, was when he was on his death bed writing the Requiem. anyway, i didn't really want to talk about Amadeus. i wanted to talk about the little rat i saw scurrying across my bedroom floor while i was watching Amadeus. he was a tiny rat, about two-thirds the size of my iPod, and had tiny black eyes and a tiny tail. i thought he looked cute, about a second before another thought hit me hard: rats are disgusting, and they shit, and chew stuff up. also they have scary feet. so i switched off the TV and ran downstairs to get the vacuum cleaner. i spent the rest of the night tidying - really tidying - my room... threw away all the papers i don't need, organized my bookshelf , and got everything off the floor and back where they belong - in the closet. i opened my windows and called out to Jerome (which is what i decided to call the rat) and asked him very politely to get out. i made a little staircase out of some books and left the windows open while i vacuumed and cleaned and spritzed and cleared. by the end of the night i'd seen no further sight of Jerome so i assume he's gone. anyway it could be that the house i'm living in is something like almost 100 years old and Jerome's family were probably living here long before i moved in, but i'm still glad i cleaned up good cos my the place looks much better now... there's actually floorspace!

tomorrow (or rather, later today) i'm off to Nottingham to spend a few days with Mouse. it was his birthday on Friday and i was supposed to be there for the weekend but had to work early Saturday morning and so postponed my trip. i'm looking forward to a good few days away and some alternative input on my design. he's organised some picnic outing in some deer park for us on Tuesday, where we will be sipping wine, eating sandwiches and critting each other's work. on Thursday and all through the weekend i'll be working from 7am to 6pm (eek!) which is a drag but oh well, watchagonnado.

my submission is 5 weeks away! so the next few weeks will be plenty stressful. i e-mailed my tutor a programme of work for the next few weeks, but thinking about it now, it does seem a bit too ambitious. i spoke to Rose about it (which is, really, all i talk about with Rose) and i've decided to just get this over with, screw portfolio-worthiness, cos if i have to stay here another year i'm leaving ala the King of Mice.

soon it will be summertime! with easy livin'.