Another busy day at work...

Here's something that managed to entertain me for a good 30 seconds.. http://www.njagyouth.org/colortest.swf

Oh, and I've been finding entertainment in clicking 'next blog' and seeing where that takes me... There's a certain excitement about not knowing what's gonna come up on the page... it could be anything from a porn blog (not good at work) to a right-wing rant (eg. http://viegostav.blogspot.com/ - feel free to heckle the poor, small-minded american in charge of this one)..
Jason at everything is wrong with me, linked below, suggested one amusing way to make use of the new toolbar is to find random blogs in foreign languages and post comments like "right on"...

Finally, I feel I should comment on the upcoming election.....
A while back, I made up my mind that I would never vote liberal or labor because I considered them both equally evil.. I mentioned this to a friend's mother (don't even bother asking the circumstances..) who told me that to do this would be irresponsible, as my vote would essentially count as nothing. I quickly dismissed the silly old bag..
However, as my dislike for John Howard grew, I became more receptive to the idea that the best chance of voting Howard out would be to vote Latham in, in spite of my almost equal dislike for Latham and labor. It would be a lesser of two evils vote.
Anyway, I have thought about this some more, and have decided that voting labor to vote out howard (ie. because the smaller parties have no chance of winning a majority) would be as defeatist as voting liberal because they will win my seat anyway.
Now, I'm back to my original position- I will almost certainly have a democrats or greens at the top of my preferences with labor and liberal down the bottom. All I can do on top of that is wait and hope (and move to a new electorate before the next election).

Just checked out this blog elanor recommended on symposiasts and its damned funny.. I love this:

“Dude, I hung out with you. Remember – you were talking for like an hour about how Stephen Hawking is a sack of shit and overrated and how you normally wouldn’t hit a cripple but you’d definitely 'take him out' if given the chance.”

Fucken gold..

Does anyone else find it funny that the media are suggesting that by winning a lot of gold medals Australia's track cycling team have redeemed themselves from the recent drug scandal...?

Isn't the idea of doping to make you win more races???

Disclaimer:

The comments made on this site by Fortz (aka Anonymous) in no way represent the views and opinions of YT.......................!

one of the scariest things in the world is bjork at 6.30 in the morning

They were just saying that the choreographer of the opening ceremony couldn't possibly have 'hoped' to match the number of people involved in Sydney's opening ceremony, so instead of going for raw numbers, they've gone for the 'less is more' approach.... Which in my opinion is MUCH classier. To me the Sydney way (and for that matter the entertainment at every AFL grand final) is like a christmas tree with as many coloured balls hanging off it as possible. That may be impressive to Shazza and Ken in Narre Warren, call me filthy dirty little snob, but I think its just too much. I'm so impressed with this so far (its only been going for 30 mins)... The av show with the statues is amazing.

PS.. The choir singing the national anthem is a million times better than the tape recording of Julie Anthony.

Ugh, Australia hosting the 2000 olympics was the worst thing that ever could have happened. The broadcast of Athens has just begun and we already have some God-awful woman who has either smoked too many cigarettes or drunk too much coffee (she has yellow teeth) telling us how 'proud' (and whatever other generalisations she can fit into the segment) the people of Athens are and how shes confident the opening ceremony will be a success. The whole thing was so patronising and its the only time I've ever felt any sort of affinity with my Greekness (my red hair and freckles must have given it away!). You can just tell that Bruce and his bitch are hoping beyond hope that something, anything fucks up so that we can all gloat about it "Well, our olympics went off without hitch, LOSERS".. Its so typical of Australia, it makes me sick.....
WE ALL HAVE SUCH AN INTERNATIONAL INFERIORITY COMPLEX

maybe i need sleep

Meanwhile, they've either made a lake in the middle of the stadium or the place is flooded... its looks unreal - at least that limits the space in which children wearing multi-coloured pyjamas can dance around. And I'm seeing it live... I knew there was a reason to stay up :P

OK, so its 3 in the morning, I'm waiting up for the opening ceremony, and I've just realised that even after I make it to the beginning of the ceremony, I'll still have to sit through upwards of 3 hours of young children running around in multi-coloured pyjamas.. It makes me wonder why I bothered in the first place.. But conflicting with that is a little voice inside me saying "You're a bum... You have nothing to get up before 12 for... You're so close, why not?".. I'm still trying to decide which way to go..

but it would be an awful waste to stay up to within half an hour and not watch any......

I'm thinking of offering a prize to the first person other than hana to post a response here...

Actually its even been a while since she's been here, so she can win it too.......

I've been thinking more about my book - both about the content of the book and my reasons for not starting to write.

(for those who don't know, further to my post below about wanting to be a writer, I actually have an idea for a book floating around in my head, but have yet to put pen to paper. or even finger to keyboard. And despite what I said below, I don't really want to be a professional writer, because i've heard its a life full of stress and poverty. My plan centres around me writing this one book, investing in property and spending my days playing manager)

Anyway, I came up with this: I haven't begun writing because I don't feel like writing a book (or anything creative for that matter) in my house. The ever-present smell of dog and the yelling 'children' are enough to sap the creativity of anybody. Its just such an uninspiring environment. I have these great visions of retreating to a cottage in the countryside a la Swimming Pool (which i still don't get, by the way) and writing at a desk in front of an open fireplace. My parents have been talking about getting a 'farm' which is very un-Camberwell of them (they should be thinking about a beach house in Portsea or Anglesea). Although when I say 'farm' i mean 'block of land in the country'. It will not have any animals, or crops- I just hope there's a stream ... so I can sit by it in the summertime and write poetry about the dragonflies and flowers......

..... and then sell it on ebay

I wish I was working full-time, so I could make 4 posts every day. Expect another within the hour. Between 4 and 5 is always a struggle for me.

YT

Who, in this day and age wears a bow tie?! Who is so full of pomp that they think they can do so without attracting the scorn of everybody around them? It is such an outward sign of arrogance- it sickens me.
"Myes, I'm a solicitor and I make much more money than you. Chortle chortle" (ok, i've now discovered I can't write a posh English accent)

anyway...

Oh, its a tough, long day at work...
I've been reading hana's housemate, Amy's blog, Frewrious Spew, and found this comment by her sister, Charlotte. Pure gold.. Made me laugh out loud in my 'office'!

People are rude. I'm currently subscribing to
the concept that elitism is the only way in which I can continue to live my life
without resorting to murdering approximately 70% of the people I come into
contact with.In fact pretty much anyone who thinks I give a shit about their
crappy little problem that ruined their film is on the "must die" list. Note for
the uninformed, I DON'T CARE that you had to get a babysitter and drove from
Canada to see "Van Helsing", I still didn't make the sound cut out on purpose,
and I'm just the fucking bitch who works here, not the god of all things
film.Sorry, bad week at work.

i find the lavazza coffee posters with people with mohawks made out of spoons and teacups along their backs kind of disturbing...

Success

I've found Hana's blog and she told my story... Now, read that and tell me you can imagine 2 people laughing for 5 minutes about that...
What's that? You can't?! And why not? Because her retelling of the story isn't funny.. Its a shame really.

Anyway, hana and I had a fun night on Saturday. We had the 21st of a girl who was a close friend of both of ours in school, but whom we are now indifferent to. Anyway, we took advantage of the free alcohol, got kicked out at midnight, went home and spent the rest of the night wrestling (and I don't mean that as a euphemism for sex, we were pissed and certain the other was planning a coup of our own half of the bed - a preemptive strike was the only available course of action).

And now for some bad news... My laptop is broken. I'm certain its a hardware problem, and I'm certain its one I could fix... if only i knew how to open up the damn things. Regardless, I have now been forced into quitting manager cold turkey. There is a version of it on the family computer, but its just not the same. My final record was: as Andrew White:- Southampton 2003-2012, 1 League cup, 1 FA cup, 1 UEFA cup, 1 champion's league, 2nd in the premiership 2009-2012, Arsenal 2013, 1st in premiership. as Andrea Bianco:- Lazio 2003, 1st in Serie A, 1st in Italian cup.
The real soccer is beginning in a week, so there's always that to entertain me.. And the footy. The finals are coming up, and I (and all my mates) just got my invitation to become full MCC members - which means we can all get into the grand final this year. Stevo and I have already said if its a St. Kilda - Melbourne grand final, we're gonna camp out the night before.

Anyway, I've just realised that this has become a boring rant on the happenings of my life (without any particular humour or wit). I just wrote a paragraph of crap but had to delete it, it was so awful. I began this post with the intention of exposing hana, and ended up writing far too much. I promise I'll never do it again.

YT

A Change of Plans

OK, so I've pretty much resigned to the fact that I'm talking to nobody but I feel a bit of an explanation is in order...

Due to the hasty set up of this blog, it was done without any purpose or theme in mind. I came up with the idea of an antiblog the other night while talking to Hana in bed. I told her a story about one of my teachers back in school. The story was quite funny (due mostly to the comic timing of yours truly might I add) and afterwards, at the same time we both said "I'm going to put that story on my blog". I only really said it as a joke, but when she said she wanted to post it, I thought it would be funny to scoop her. So now my theme is to put her favourite things in my blog before she can put them in hers. This is obviously going to take a bit of work, and a committed effort, but I think in a way I've already won. For starters, I know that the title of the blog is going to really piss her off - for two reasons. One: because its just a cool name for a blog, two: because she has struggled to think of a name for her blog for so long, and this name would have been perfect for her - Reality Bites (where the quote comes from) is one of her favourite movies of all time. I didn't even like reality bites...

Some of you (if there is anyone out there) may think this is a bit nasty... It is. But its all just a joke, and in the end its just a blog. If she turned around and said she wanted to take her blog seriously because she wanted to use it as some sort of emotional outlet or something, then maybe (MAYBE) I'd consider stopping. But until then expect the most interesting things about Hana's life HERE FIRST!!

YT

PS. I just won Serie A in my first season in charge of Lazio. Reyes won best young player and got the most goals in the league... Money well spent

Rationalisation

I guess the first thing people normally write about when they begin a blog is their rationale for doing so. To be completely honest, I did it to track down the secret blog of my girlfriend (I thought by signing up I way be able to access some members-only search of blogspot). Fortunately none of that was necessary, for - as you may have already noticed - the silly girl replied to my initial post with a link to her profile..

Now that I have joined, however, I've decided that a blog would be a good way to divert my attention from Championship Manager, a passtime that has completely dominated my spare time for the best part of 2 months. As is my way, when I quit something addictive I have to transfer my effort to something equally as addictive but less harmful to my health, finances or social life. Compare this current example to my recent effort to quit smoking. Whilst I have successfully gone four weeks without a cigarette, I now require at least 3 cups of tea each day.. Four weeks ago I wouldn't drink tea if it promised eternal life, now my need for it has directly substituted my need of nicotine. And to show how this meets the crtieria detailed above, I am now saving up to $50 a week that would've gone towards ciggies, I am actually able to run out a game of basketball (but not yet a game of indoor soccer) and the cloud of filth that smelled like an old sock soaked in bong water no longer follows me around wherever I go. My girlfriend does still smoke and to her all I can say is "I envy you.."

Coupled with the need to rid myself of Manager, is my obvious need of practise in an area I previously rated myself (ie. I thought I could write). I have recently decided that the only career I could enjoy would be that of a professional writer. The only thing that stands in my way, however was the fact that I hadn't written anything that wasn't being graded since year 9. Until recently I had maintained the delusion that I could actually write. It was my girlfriend who eventually burst my bubble, when after I decided to finally put some ideas to paper and begin the short story I had been thinking about, she read the first two pages and nearly pissed herself laughing (it wasn't a comedy). Anyway, despite this being stream-of-consciousness rambling, at least its writing.

In closing, I think its fair to say that as soon as I get home this afternoon I'll switch on the laptop, fire up Manager and this blog will never be heard of again. On the other hand, if I begin posting here semi-regularly, you'll know that I have successfully kicked another habit and am once again able to leave my room despite there being only a week until the transfer deadline...

YT

PS: Hana, I know you've changed your blog address so nobody finds it. Its not that shit...

Everyone else (specifically bounty hunters), my previous post still applies...

PPS: Last night I got Jose Antonio Reyes from Sevilla for $36.5 million...

Attention: Bounty Hunters

Hana has made a blog and she won't tell me where it is. Help me find it. Her name is Hana and her blog is called Yes, No, Maybe. There will almost certainly be a reward offered...