Oh yes, i am procrastinating that much, no seriously i am. To give an account of my morning so far is of course rather odd but then again it's the narrative i have playing in my head right now and in a desire to shut it up i will put it in words and on my blog. Sounds like a good idea, let's hope it works.
Now i got to bed rather late last night. Oh how late you ask, well how about touching on 2 am. I had slept to 4pm for no reason that day and falling asleep wasn't exactly going to be easy. I surfed and procrastinated around the web following several things all over the place. From population density, to the aral sea ecological disaster, to the chicago river, to the Eastland disaster, to the Titanic to this little amazing story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Jessop
An amazing story of a woman both lucky and unlucky enough to have been on all 3 of the Olympic class ships when they had accidents, ie when both the Titanic and Brittanic sank! She was a steward for white star line and was on the Olympic when it hit another ship, survived Titanic and was a WW1 nurse on the Brittanic when it allegedly hit a sea-mine. She was unlucky still to have been in the lifeboat that was sucked into the propeller as the ship sank, but jumped out in time and hit her head on the hull of the ship. An amazing woman, best cheap biopic of an ordinary person never made goes too.......
Now as for today. Very little sleep as i was saying. Did my a bathroom break before hopping into a pointless attempt to slumber due to my excessive sleep and inactivity. But 4 hours later i woke up rather reluctantly and scavenged for un-ironed cloth's in the wash basket and took a shower. Even with my new haircut my washing routine didn't change much, possibly a waste but i don't care. Breakfast oh breakfast. Well firstly i had a pre-made pancake from the package and then check the clock, plenty of time. I decided on Rasher sandwich's. Unfortunately the puppy doo doo i didn't pick up infront of the fridge had the audacity to be under where i stood and i ended up wasting precious rasher cooking time wiping my shoe. Then i chucked the rashers in and poured some smoothie for myself and filled my water bottle, currently a 500ml former sprite bottle. Mmm, good rashers, butter a bit solid so i chucked it onto the bread in clumps. BBC NI weather report was Heavily unusable for louth, not a cloud in the sky and i couldn't find my sunglasses in my bag. This meant the whole way into dublin the light hitting my eyes flickered faster than strobe lights as the sun ducked in and out from behind all the bushes and banks along the coast.
Arriving in dublin my mother in her kidness gave me a fiver. You know that little blue note that should go very far in a time of recession but its most useful usage has gone up in price, evil! I'll get to that in a minute or two. Firstly straight off the train into the Java Hutt's. The email thing a bit of web browsing and then the fecking thing crashes. My mobile phone was getting faster results on html page's that it wasn't built for than the speed the computer took to tell me it was broken and couldn't find a connection to the web. A reboot didn't matter it froze even worse again. That was the last straw, up i got and walked on to eason's. Empire's 20 years issue was a must item to see if it was worth buying. After all Spielberg himself was guest editor. Mean's jack shit really. Other than a few nice picture's from famous face's it's not exactly that great of an issue. Didn't give myself enough time to read the star trek review but it received 4 stars, i'm happy with that.
Then on to my cinephilia mecca that is Cineworld. A megaplex that is just great. I was hoping that my fiver and assorted change would get me into an early bird movie and i might perchance be able to sneak a second one in. But it was not to be. Dropping an ear bud, pausing my music i asked the desk clerk the price of the early bird,(formally 5 euro exactly) it was now shockingly 630 or more. I said to the clerk in return "oh right, i'll be back." just after fishing in the change pouch of my wallet hopping, just hopping that there was a euro i had missed. There wasn't. Back to Henry street, sunlight and truck's lining each end. I queued for the ATM and a beggar with an mp3 player and an mobile sat there asking for change. People actually gave it to him. And after being asked directly i handed over 3 20 cent coins, why i don't know. I had noticed his accoutrement's, his forwardness, but i guess i was aiming to extract paper, i had no use for metal! Of course i needed metal how silly. This reminded me of a similar beggar last monday. He came up to me with the biggest fake sincere and forced polite accent ever, almost as if he was a comedian or an actor. It was giving me a sense of dark humour and parody, i found it almost offensive and also innovative and that. I gave him a euro and told him he didn't have to be so polite. I didn't queit get his response but the moment stuck with me. Politeness as an act being off putting but still making me give money, I NEVER GIVE MONEY. Upon entering my pin into the ATM i tried in vein to see the screen and search through what was yet again a different user interface to every other machine i had yet used in the short time i've had a debit card. Annoyingly the main selection didn't have a 10 euro as a choice, so i tried to request it another way. To no avail, but i tried again. Knowing i only had around 18 euro i attempted to get a 20, nope this didn't work either. So knowing i "wouldn't be back" i walked back south, disapointed.
I popped into marks and sparks after looking for a yoghurt or health drink in a near by londis. Seeing the Sandwhich, softdrink and crisp deal for 2.75 i though, "mmm, lunch". I then moved to the adjacent aisle and saw the smoothies. Such amazing choice, for some reason however i settled on the Vanilla and Maple syrup smoothie for 1.90. I then picked up the lunch, mixing and matching Tuna and sweetcorn sandwich, light sparkling florida orange and ready salted crisps. I then queued at the cash register. A thought crossed my mind, debit card/laser card, aha that cashback thing! I had no idea how it worked but it could be useful! Of course as fate would have it the customer in front of me was attempting to pay via credit card, but the machine was "broken" apparently. This meant she had to sign for her purchase but without that old kind of mechanical swipe. No it was a swipe on the price screen and a receipt from the till, odd, maybe a m&s card and not a credit card, who knows, not me. So forgetting the convenient idea of using my now defunct laser card i pennied up the small blue note that had shaped my morning.
Walking back via the Ha' Penny bridge and temple bar i noticed interesting deal's in the walk through centra. For one a breakfast roll all day for 1.99, now that's fattening and cheap all at once, sound's good! I also saw an odd very large black machine. Apparently a coin collector of some sort. Possibly for all that underused copper we all have. It equate's it into a voucher and you can use it for purchasing within the store, how quaint!
Warning Disturbing thought:
Now as for the M&S vanilla and maple syrup smoothie, not just any smoothie a very strong and sweet M&S smoothie. It was odd to say the least, i liked it but it also gave the slight reminder of a certain bodily fluid that many are not to found of. Although if that particular substance tasted like this i'm sure it would be far more amenable and a lot more girls would switch to specialist porn to "ride" out the recession, just a thought.
Now on College green i noticed an electronic's shop with a electronic book reader advertised in the window, cool enough unto itself. But then i saw it. The thing i must have, the other goal of my summer. A white samsung "notebook" laptop with a gig of ram and 160 GB of space for €399. Just wow, the idea of that uber-sleak dainty white keyboard and screen in my pocsession. Wow, i rarely want gadgets or anything really. I can pirate music, i can watch movies and tv online, i can break all those laws. I also have 2 camera's, a bitching one from my sister and a cheapish model from a few birthday's ago that still can take a lot of physical punishment. I also have an ipod and my glorious new phone with web access and unlimited Mp3 play potential via micro-sd cards. But the thought of a notebook. A mini-laptop where i could ratta tap tap my blogs, my stories, my college work if need be and gain repedative strain injuries from trying to control Train empires on it's tiny touch pad! OMG typing, the web, and Open TTD on the move! I must have, i must have! Yeah, a gf wouldn't be more likely than a job or enough money from said unlikely job to be able to get it. But i can dream.......
Also since when was there a webcam on front Arch? Is it a security camera or can you log onto it or something?
With 5 minutes of the "morning" left, i say good by for now and will blog as always and increasingly at some other point in the week.
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