Clown will eat me

I thought it would be a good idea to go to bed at a respectable time for 11:30 I was feeling quite tired and I have work at 9am tomorrow morning unfortunately the longer I laid in bed, the more awake I felt. Now almost an hour after I went to bed I figured I may as well make use of my insomnia and write a blog post!

I started my new job a few days ago, it is very close to home (that is good) but I am stuck at a desk for 7.5 hours a day (that is bad). On the plus side after looking back on the day before going to bed I realise how much more stress-free time I had when compared to the dissertation/revision filled days of university which is again good. Unforutnatly shepherdnick’s and my very own confused04’s own worries regarding work has it seemed rubbed off onto me. I keep finding myself stuck in a thought loop jumping around trying to think about what I really want to do with my life. Unfortunately all the things I can think of don’t really involve work, they generally involve thoughts about having a real life with Jess (getting our own place and such things), gliding & flying (the warm weather always makes me look up at the clouds) Someone once warned me when I went flying for the very first time in Usk that if you catch the bug as it where, you won’t ever be able to stop thinking or talking about flying. I have found that to be very true as I haven’t flown in years but I still can’t help but think about it, hell I caught myself doodling the landing circuit the other day without even realizing it! and all sorts of other things that you can only do with money!

In the long term I really can’t see myself being a software engineer, the thought of spending 8 hours a day coding every day just puts me into a panic! Unfortunately the only jobs I can come up with in my head is a) software engineering b) general IT admin guy c) Networking (that could kind of mix with b) and d) Teaching. My mind keeps coming back to teaching mainly because of the enthusiasm of Ryan when talking to him about it and the fact that I really enjoyed my project, which although did not involve any actually teaching per say did get me excited about the prospects of helping people learn. Unfortunately the thought of having to do another year of training before starting to get paid really fills me with dread!

Ah well I spose, shouldn’t worry about things too much, I have my whole life to sort out what job I really want and so long as for the moment I can gain experience, new skills and earn some money all will be well!

Ok, moving on from my deep down feelings of panic to some more fun and happy things! The 20th anniversary SUCS Beach party was on Saturday/Sunday and it was bloody brilliant. I really enjoyed myself, there was plenty of food, beer and of course FIRE which are all good things. Highlights of the evening were playing GIMBO (an excellent drinking game), singing Queen while drinking Tequila, Toasting marshmallows on the biggest fire in the world, going on an expedition to find the sea (it was however unsuccessful), eating vast quantities of burgers and well much more stuffs. I will be posting the photos on flikr once I have a chance. Before I went to the beach party I did go in to a shop called “Field and Trek”, now you see I have one tiny character flaw: I am a total sucker for camping/hiking stuffs. I very very very rarely go camping and almost never go hiking, but when I enter a camping/hiking store I can’t help but get hypnotized by the super light materials. The amazing pen knifes, the FIRE STICKS and magical cooking stoves. This time I got lucky, I only bought a super comfy fold away camping chair and an ultra light magic fiber super compact water proof jacket. It could have been much worse.

Oh on less great note, my camera and phone both have got infected with sand. So my camera refuses to take photos and whenever I speak to anyone on the phone it sounds like they are talking through… well a pile of sand really! Hopefully I will be able to sort out these small problems (although regarding my phone, as the new iPhone will be out in a month I will be replacing my current phone regardless of how much sand is in it)

Anything else interesting to talk about? Well I will quickly mention Firefox 3. I have recently had the pleasure of trying out the RC2 and you know what? I love it! I love how it looks, how it responses, how the awesome bar works everything! Unfortunately shepherdnick does not, and I have it on good authority that he will soon be doing a blog post explaining exactly why he doesn’t.

Lastly it is worth noting that I will be very soon be out of (obvious) debt. Thanks to left over loan, (very) generous parents and my own personal savings (thank you gap year!) my overdraft will be gone and as I just handed over my last rent cheque all is now good (I like to pretend that my student loan doesn’t really need paying back… I wonder how long I can keep hold of that fantasy)

EDIT: I forgot to mention about the banner on the top of my site! It is a link to Chicken Out which is a campaign started by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall to try to get chickens out of batery farms and convince people to buy free-range only. As someone who has kept chickens for a very long time I whole hearly aggree with this. FREEDOM FOR THE CHICKEN!