Restless

I’m getting very restless and impatient. I was over the moon a couple of weeks ago when I was told I’d been headhunted for this internship, but nothing’s happening. Not that I expected to start work the very next day or week, but if I at least knew when I was going to start, it would make it easier to wait. I’m also sick of my current situation. Being home most days writing articles for magazines which brings good money and also is a lot of fun and working in the restaurant. I hate sitting in all day. I like getting up in the morning feeling like I’m going somewhere. Like I’m needed. And as for the restaurant, well, I love it really. It’s only a part time job though and people are just a little too close for my liking. Take TG for example, I really can’t stand being around that girl knowing she bitches about me and everybody else too for that matter, behind their back. She’s just so sad and fucking shallow when it comes to other people. Then there’s twin A and B which I don’t know how to take really. I’m ok with them as long as I keep the conversation on a light level and don’t think too much, but then it’s knowing that Twin A supposedly has a thing for me and that I have to be careful who I talk to and what I say so that someone isn’t gonna go back to A and give him the impression Twin A and I are secret lovers. KS works there too of course, which is fine really except from the fact that he, understandably hates me so much that if I come physically near him, like if he guides me from the tube station, he’s just gonna leave me in the street. That’s at least what he says. I also feel guilty because he’s drinking a bottle of brandy a day, a small one, but still. I just need to get away from the circle I’m in right now. I believe that’s gonna make me tolerate everyone much more. Oh, and I almost for got Rob, an elderly Italian who always wants to hug me, which I find very annoying and this other guy who works in the restaurant too who keeps asking me out because he desperately wants a girlfriend.

I hate being all negative, so there are lots of positive things going on in my life too. This weekend for instance, was nice although quiet. Ant came around Saturday to take some final photos and I made Fajitas. As usual, we had a good time chatting and listening to music while the pictures were taken which made me forget that that was what we were doing. Sunday, I went to this health food shop in Fulham with A. He’s on his detox and is trying to drag me along with him. Well, not really, but I do love my healthy food, wheat free pasta, serials and trying out dairy free milk etc. It’s a pity health food is so expensive. Everyone should eat it, but most people can’t afford it. I spent quite a lot of money on three full bags, but then, its food that lasts for a while and my body will thank me. I’ve also spent some quality time with A lately. We’re both getting a little needy for physical love now I think, but it’s quite nice to be with each other just talking, lying on the bed hugging while watching a DVD and go shopping. I’m also going to Barcelona in a couple of weeks for work reasons. There’s gonna be a whiskey tasting followed by a dinner in the dark for 18 people at the Hilton hotel. Two waiters from London and one from the Paris branch of the restaurant are going and we’ll be paid £20 and hour working for four hours. Travel and hotel will also be covered. I don’t know whether I’ll get to see much of the town, but I really hope so!

I’ll leave you with this joke that just got emailed to me. I find some of it funny.

BOBBIT VIRUS: Removes a vital part of your hard disk then re -attaches it. (But that part will never work again.)

OPRAH WINFREY VIRUS: You’re 200MB hard drive suddenly shrinks to 80MB, and then slowly expands back to 200MB.

AT&T VIRUS: Every three minutes it tells you what great service you are getting.

MCI VIRUS: Every three minutes it reminds you that you’re paying too much for the AT&T virus.

SPRINT VIRUS: Every three minutes, you hear a pin drop out of your machine.

YUGOSLAVIA VIRUS: Almost immediately fragments into several autonomous parts. Then it violently tries to reassemble itself for the next 150 years.

PAUL REVERE VIRUS: This revolutionary virus does not horse around. It warns you of impending hard disk attack—once if by LAN, twice if by C :>.

POLITICALLY CORRECT VIRUS: Never calls itself a “virus”, but instead refers to itself as an “electronic micro-organism.”

RIGHT TO LIFE VIRUS: Won’t allow you to delete a file, regardless of how old it is. If you attempt to erase a file, it requires you to first see a counsellor
About possible alternatives.

ROSS PEROT VIRUS: Activates every component in your system, just before the whole damn thing quits.

MARIO CUOMO VIRUS: It would be a great virus, but it refuses to run.

TED TURNER VIRUS: Colourizes your monochrome monitor.

ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER VIRUS: Terminates and stays resident. It’ll be back.

DAN QUAYLE VIRUS: Goes into your spellchecker and updates the word “Potato”

GOVERNMENT ECONOMIST VIRUS: Nothing works, but all your diagnostic software says everything is fine.

NEW WORLD ORDER VIRUS: Probably harmless, but it makes a lot of people really mad just thinking about it.

FEDERAL BUREAUCRAT VIRUS: Divides your hard disk into hundreds of little units, each of which does practically nothing, but all of which claim to be the
Most important part of your computer.

GALLUP VIRUS: Sixty percent of the PCs infected will lose 38 percent of their data 14 percent of the time. (plus or minus a 3.5 percent margin of error.)

TERRY RANDLE VIRUS: Prints “Oh no you don’t” whenever you choose “Abort” from the “Abort” “Retry” “Fail” message.

TEXAS VIRUS: Makes sure that it’s bigger than any other file.

ADAM AND EVE VIRUS: Takes a couple of bytes out of your Apple.

CONGRESSIONAL VIRUS: The computer locks up, screen splits erratically with a message appearing on each half blaming the other side for the problem.

CONGRESSIONAL VIRUS #2: Tries to have you removed as the rightful owner of the computer, even though everybody else wants you to be the owner.

AIRLINE VIRUS: You’re in Dallas, but your data is in Singapore.

FREUDIAN VIRUS: Your computer becomes obsessed with marrying its own motherboard.

PBS VIRUS: Your programs stop every few minutes to ask for money.

ELVIS VIRUS: Your computer gets fat, slow and lazy, then self destructs; only to resurface at shopping malls and service stations across rural America.

OLLIE NORTH VIRUS: Causes your printer to become a paper shredder.

NIKE VIRUS: Just does it.

SEARS VIRUS: Your data won’t appear unless you buy new cables, power supply and a set of shocks.

JIMMY HOFFA VIRUS: Your programs can never be found again.

KEVORKIAN VIRUS: Helps your computer shut down as an act of mercy.

IMELDA MARCOS VIRUS: Sings you a song (slightly off key) on boot up, then subtracts money from your Quicken account and spends it all on expensive shoes
it purchases through Prodigy.

STAR TREK VIRUS: Invades your system in places where no virus has gone before.

HEALTH CARE VIRUS: Tests your system for a day, finds nothing wrong, and sends you a bill for $4,500.

GEORGE BUSH VIRUS: It starts by boldly stating, “Read my docs….No new files!” on the screen. It proceeds to fill up all the free space on your hard drive
with new files, then blames it on the Congressional Virus.

CLEVELAND INDIANS VIRUS: Makes your 486/50 machine perform like a 286/AT.

LAPD VIRUS: It claims it feels threatened by the other files on your PC and erases them in “self defence”.

CHICAGO CUBS VIRUS: Your PC makes frequent mistakes and comes in last in the reviews, but you still love it.

ORAL ROBERTS VIRUS: Claims that if you don’t send it a million dollars, it’s programmer will take it back.