Home sweet home and holy shit, everything's gone back to being good again!
Quite a lot's changed in the past month for me, as many will have guessed. And while a couple'a bad things have crooped up, most of the other seems very much for the greater good. It's so good I've come off the antidepressants again and I'm back to singing along to the radio.
So yay!
* I started my new job at the Newsletter three weeks ago and it couldn't be more different to my old job. No despotic news editor (in fact, no news editor at all ), a 100% non-pretentious, unbitchy and sweet-natured chief reporter (who's a big Super Furry Animals fan to boot 
) and ace colleagues. Sample question from fellow trainee reporter: "Here's an important question - how do you like your bacon cooked?" My kinda workplace
* Been back in Stoke for a month and I feel like I've come home. I love my new house (I live with a laid-back indie DJ and a Chinese girl who cooks fantastic Oriental soup) and best of all, I'm allowed to put posters in my room again! Cue anarchic, colourful mess of a decor and a smiling MP. Oh, and all my friends (and most importantly my BOY) are within walking distance. As is my old Student Union bar. Which sells a great assortment of nachos and rum.
*I am made more interesting by the fact I have been diagnosed with a chronic disease. I have now found out I have collitis, a form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Found out after I ended up in A and E the first evening I was back in Stoke, and subsequently spent the next three days in hospital on a drip with uber-painful abdominal pains. It's not too bad I guess, but if I get too stressed I end up shitting blood 10 times a day and not being able to eat spicy food, both of which are a bit of a swine. Oh, and I'm now permanently on medication for it which is giving me monstrous hangovers if I drink too much. 'Tho strangely enough, Guiness doesn't seem to affect it. Well, they do say Guiness is good for you
*So yeah, I got to spend three days in hospital for the first time in almost 22 years (I almost died of salmonella when I was a year old, I spent my 1st birthday in hospital). Ironically, apart from the IBD I also had very severe food poisoning. So, there's a lesson for you. When they say "wash your hands when handling raw chicken", they bloody well mean it!
Hospital wasn't all that bad, apart from dealing with a very grumpy and balding male nurse and having to shit into what looked like an eggbox (then writing a report on the consistency of said shit 
), I got fed for free and got to do bugger all for three days apart from read manga and watch daytime crap. Sweeet.
*Did a lecture for my old uni, to teach t he first year Journalism students the joys of newspaper journalism. It was good, lots of eager young learners intent on my words AND I got paid! Winner
*And last, but not least, Holy Shit, I'm AWOL for 2 weeks and a fucking great Manko video turns up! Always good to end the week with the female incarnation of Sid Vicious spitting at my computer screen. Nice one Manko-sama.
And nice one to the rest of ya, hope everything goes well for everybody. Love and fish to all!
Laters
Quite a lot's changed in the past month for me, as many will have guessed. And while a couple'a bad things have crooped up, most of the other seems very much for the greater good. It's so good I've come off the antidepressants again and I'm back to singing along to the radio.
So yay!
* I started my new job at the Newsletter three weeks ago and it couldn't be more different to my old job. No despotic news editor (in fact, no news editor at all
), a 100% non-pretentious, unbitchy and sweet-natured chief reporter (who's a big Super Furry Animals fan to boot ) and ace colleagues. Sample question from fellow trainee reporter: "Here's an important question - how do you like your bacon cooked?" My kinda workplace
* Been back in Stoke for a month and I feel like I've come home. I love my new house (I live with a laid-back indie DJ and a Chinese girl who cooks fantastic Oriental soup) and best of all, I'm allowed to put posters in my room again! Cue anarchic, colourful mess of a decor and a smiling MP. Oh, and all my friends (and most importantly my BOY) are within walking distance. As is my old Student Union bar. Which sells a great assortment of nachos and rum.
*I am made more interesting by the fact I have been diagnosed with a chronic disease. I have now found out I have collitis, a form of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). Found out after I ended up in A and E the first evening I was back in Stoke, and subsequently spent the next three days in hospital on a drip with uber-painful abdominal pains. It's not too bad I guess, but if I get too stressed I end up shitting blood 10 times a day and not being able to eat spicy food, both of which are a bit of a swine. Oh, and I'm now permanently on medication for it which is giving me monstrous hangovers if I drink too much. 'Tho strangely enough, Guiness doesn't seem to affect it. Well, they do say Guiness is good for you
*So yeah, I got to spend three days in hospital for the first time in almost 22 years (I almost died of salmonella when I was a year old, I spent my 1st birthday in hospital). Ironically, apart from the IBD I also had very severe food poisoning. So, there's a lesson for you. When they say "wash your hands when handling raw chicken", they bloody well mean it!
Hospital wasn't all that bad, apart from dealing with a very grumpy and balding male nurse and having to shit into what looked like an eggbox (then writing a report on the consistency of said shit ), I got fed for free and got to do bugger all for three days apart from read manga and watch daytime crap. Sweeet.
*Did a lecture for my old uni, to teach t he first year Journalism students the joys of newspaper journalism. It was good, lots of eager young learners intent on my words AND I got paid! Winner
*And last, but not least, Holy Shit, I'm AWOL for 2 weeks and a fucking great Manko video turns up! Always good to end the week with the female incarnation of Sid Vicious spitting at my computer screen. Nice one Manko-sama.
And nice one to the rest of ya, hope everything goes well for everybody. Love and fish to all!
Laters
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I ve just read your Billie joke.
I can' believe I have never heard It.
I can't believe how funny I found it
I seem to be typing in rhyme today.
Mxxx