I just don't know, cheese probably!

Before we get to the important stuff, I went to look at a car tonight. It was basically a skip on wheels. It was so bad I wouldn't even known how to have tried to haggle him down to negative equity.

The dream


The world is in turmoil. It has rained for days here in Glasgow, technically, the outskirts, but let’s not bicker. The television, a medium of information I have grown unaccustomed to its constant mutterings. And the noises now, shock and drive my mood downward. Often I have found the news programs more horrific than any Hollywood created pseudo-nasty.
This week I had the oddest dream. I was lead to a large campus, there were many security doors. I wasn’t sure why I was there. The leading party (a female, middle aged, confident) was someone I was familiar with, and I was more disconcerted by the surroundings rather than the company. I went through a door, there was a delay, then I was lead to a desk by the leading party. In front of a computer, I was questioning what was going on whilst people were telling me that it was imperative that I complete the task on screen. My questioning lead to my failure at the tasks and I was subsequently lead from the testing area. Then it became evident that this failure wasn’t anticipated and I had seen things I shouldn’t have, hence, disposal.
There was an alert, someone had broken in. it got really weird for a while, vast inconsistencies, obvious even in the dream state, with the final result being the location of the insurgent and the neutralisation of the potential threat. I then found out that an ex was the one who proposed my membership to this intelligence organisation, and that most of those I had known during my research time had been recruited. Ex agreed to escort me from the campus, but warned that I was now a target.
Verdict and diagnosis?
Paranoid.
Whatever…

Apparently...

You Are a Marble Cake

Eclectic, inventive, and peaceful. You are never willing to accept what's "normal." You live to push the envelope. You find it hard to make up your mind. You prefer to have everything you want, right away!

What Kind of Cake Are You?

Late night playlist

Brought to you by insomnia, the word "repent" and the numbers 6, 6 and 6.

Blonde – The Wedding Present
Say Hello, Wave Good Bye – Soft Cell
Last One Standing – Ladytron
She’s Unreal – Meat Beat Manifesto
Title & Registration – Death Cab for Cutie
Apple – Cibo Matto
And This is What the Devil Does - MLWTTKK
Alpha Omega – Project Pitchfork

Hurrrumph

It's grey outside and in. This must be what it feels like to be John Major.

listening to this :o(

I can't imagine why I'm depressed?

Terminal 5 T shirt panic fiasco

This news item was brought to my attention by m' esteemed partner in good. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7431640.stm
This is such a childish hardline attitude against nothing. Terrorists must be laughing their collective asses off with this result. let's make the Westerners so messed in the head they lose all perspective and panic at even a two dimensional representation of a comic book weapon on a man's T shirt.
Mission accomplised guys.

Evil calculator

Using the evil calculator on Stuffed Badger's blog, I checked out the abstract of my thesis. It was only 10% Evil! who'd have thought 90% Goodness was lurking within those carefully crafted words. I might print the result out and send it to the Vatican. A saint has a lot of power these days, they have parades, days off, streets and squares after them... Could probably swing a sponsership from nike too. Oh happy days.

Latest and some photographs

Hello people, if ye be plural. Had a nice weekend and saw a nice rainbow. I'm meant to be organising a kitchen for my mum but it's just so difficult. I think I might have ADD. Maybe I have a lot on my mind, I don't know. Let's move onto the pictures.


Pretty Rainbow in grey area


View of Guimaraes from Penha


Pusscat in Porto


Fountain detail in Lisbon

latest stuff

What have I been doing?
Well, I seem to be on a constant battle to revise my CV to make it the closest thing to warm melty feelings that you are encouraged to have in response to prospective employees. I have an interview at a very odd location which I won’t mention as I haven’t had time to converse with them. I’ll let you know.
Did a small DJ thing at Violate and I’d forgotten stress. I got drunk, and I forgot my plan.
So I panicked and it went badly. This was weird, because in Portugal it went better when I was drunk.
So, I bought a gorgeous little electronic thing from Maplin Electronics to feed TV and video games into my equally gorgeous wide screen monitor, the beauty of which I had forgotten whilst working in Portugal. My purpose was to remove the old CRT TV that took up more space behind it than it presented as a viewable screen. And I still haven’t gotten around to watching Lost, I have rediscovered Never mind the Buzzcocks, QI and various other stuff that I had taken to watching on You Tube.
Books, I have barely picked up a book except a new “Learn Portuguese too late to be of effective use” course I bought and should have for practical purposes, pursued whilst there. I have a Portuguese lesson on Thursday where my level of ignorance shall be examined and revealed.
No pretty pictures here just now, sorry.

Oh dear oh dear oh dear...

You Are a Hunter Soul

You are driven and ambitious - totally self motivated to succeed Actively working to achieve what you want, you are skillful in many areas. You are a natural predator with strong instincts ... and more than a little demanding. You are creative, energetic, and an extremely powerful force. An outdoors person, you like animals and relate to them better than people. You tend to have an explosive personality, but also a good sense of humor. People sometimes see you as arrogant or a know it all. You tend to be a bit of a loner, though you hate to be alone. Souls you are most compatible with: Seeker Soul and Peacemaker Soul

What Kind of Soul Are You?

Monday

Lately, a few things have been weird. Weird and frustrating. I think that it's normal that when you want to close off work that has taken you 5 years to complete (including delays due to equipment failure), to expect the people who have supervised you during that period to be helpful in facilitating your wishes. Particularly when it would take zero supervision and minimal demand on resources. Well, I recently discovered just how capricious such entities can be, to the point of stone walling an eight hour experiment that only requires UV, a power pack and a fluorimeter. So, **** it. You live, you learn, and you grow in your expectations to be messed about for the most petty and trivial reasons.
A lot of things have revealed themselves to be so wastefully unimportant. But, this has also highlighted the important things. The important things, thank you. These include friends in Portugal and SB.

The other things, I can’t believe I stressed at you.

I have some Portuguese wine and a packet of Argolinhas (preto) from Pingo Doce. :o)