12th December 2002

The gits beat me too it. Last journal entry I was looking forward to resigning. Not more than a few moments later I was called aside and given the ‘bad news’ that I was out of a job. At face value this means I’m better off as I’m apparently entitled to redundancy money. However I am taking it a bit personally as it seems I am the only person being kicked out. There are many, many reasons you could argue that I could take it personally and many reasons why it makes sense and even more reasons why I could have offered them something better if they had sat me down and went look, we need to make more use of your time. I have many more skills than people actually realize. I have to do so many things but for some reason I have been pigeon-holed into doing what I do. At the end of the day I don’t know why I care so much. I have already planned to leave and do plenty of things anyway, this way I get more money to help me do it. Even so I’m very narked. And if I was a normal person I’d go on about the just before Christmas thing as well. It’s put me on a downer that’s for sure when I was merely waiting for a very good feeling.

Not much else to report as there have only been two and a half days since my last report. On Tuesday I saw Andy and have been learning a bit more about the ways of the financial world. Just as well, as I never had a pension set up for me.

Last night I was in Leicester Square at the same time of the premiere for the second Lord of the Rings film. That was a pain as I really, really, just wanted to get into Yates to meet with Darren and his friends. I could have been really close to really famous people for all I know, but I merely fought my way through the crowds not taking any notice.

The evening was OK, not a great deal of people I knew there and didn’t have a great deal to talk about to anyone and I guess I wasn’t as in the mood as I could have been. Popped into deep pan pizza company with Del and Jo afterwards and then headed home with them.

That’s about it. My caption competition, which the website is http://www.thisis.org/caption has been much more of a success that I imagined. That cheered me up at least. Maybe I’ll expand it at some point.

ttfn as they say.