Good news everybody! I have a new job. I now work for a software company called Centresoft, representing Sony PlayStation in Scotland. Yes, that's THE SONY PLAYSTATION I'm talking about. Yes, it means playing lots of PlayStation games. Yes, it means getting advance copies of all the new titles coming out. Yes, it means travelling to PlayStation events in the UK and accompanying clients to the European Champions League matches in our corporate box.
This Tuesday night I'm off to Parkhead to watch Celtic V Barcelona.
I really just want to brag a little as I am so happy to get a job! Okay, the pay may not be the greatest in the world, but the perks are brilliant. Plus, I get all the usual car/phone etc.
I realised there are so many of you who don't already know, cause you all live so far away...but on that note, I want you to know, I'm always thinking about you guys and I even miss some ofyou.
More new news.... I may have a flat sorted out for the end of the month with my friend Jacqui. She works in the pub with me and is a great laugh. The flat is directly across from the pub, which is very convenient and is also only 2 minutes from the train station and 2 1/2 minutes from both of Balloch's fine (er...?) nightclubs. So, by the time I stagger home across our fabulous new jump proof bridge, I could have finished off the chips and cheese I purchased on my way out of either the Backroom or Desire, from good old Mr Singh's.
I also went to watch the boys play - and win - rugby today. I actually really enjoy going down and watching them play. I'm starting to get the rules and I like watching them rough each other up. The wind has been horrendous today. I had my head wedged between the car door and the car when a strong gust of wind blew it out of my control. The pain was horrific so stop laughing!
Well, I better be off now. Places to go, alcohol to consume!
Nothing brings out the freaks more than the circus being in town. So, it was no surprise to find New York over run by the weird, wonderful and worried of Middle America during the recent Republican Convention. If images of apple pie sitting to cool on the porch of the house of soldier of defending the great United States of America (oh, and what a state they are in...) is your idea of a tear jerking symbol of all that is good in this world, then I hope you enjoyed your stay in New York too.
It wasn't just the big names at the Convention which made it such a special place to be, it was the likes of your average Republican, like the Ted Beckett, an evangelist from Colorado who was there to ensure the moral integrity of America was in safe hands and far from the dirty, reprehensible clutches of those wily and wicked Democrats.
At the screening of the film George W Bush - Faith in The White House, Beckett gushed over the good work George is doing not only for the country, but for the world.
"This nation, under George W Bush has a mandate from the Lord to be the world's policeman." Exclaimed the exuberant evagelist. Well, when you've got God voting for you (he must have been registered in Florida) you must be onto a good thing. And we have to be very greatful to men like Dubya you see, here in the United Kingdom. "Under President Bush," Beckett continued on to the waiting British Press, "this nation is protecting the free world just like we did back in the 1940's. Remember, if it wasn't for us, you Brits would be talking Sprechen zie Deutsche." Just as well, cause my German is terrible...
But it's back to Florida for the real Middle America paranoia to come to the fore. Bill Bunting, Republican delegate from Florida and his good little wife Ann, were at the convention to make sure those pesky Democrats don't get any of those terrifying gun reform laws they're always narking on about and the Second Ammendment stays firmly and deeply entrenched in the American way of life.
"The Second Ammendment ensures our personal freedom. In order to be free, you have to be armed." Ann stated. "It's a question of independence, self protection, self assertation, self confidence. It's basic to being American." And if you are wondering what Ann feels the need to be protected against, her husband Bill quite easily summed up the situation. "...an armed populace doesn't have to worry about a government getting too big and over-running us." He may have had a tin foil hat on at the time and was last seen running down Fifth Avenue shouting "The English are coming! The English are coming!"
But it's not just terrorists and big brother the Republicans are here to protect American from. It's that lefto, pinko, athiest lot with their loose morals and low paying jobs, gleaming money from the over financed social service coffers Dubya is really going to protect you against.
Good old Ted the evangelist is keen to point out George W Bush is a force of nature. A man to be revered and respected. "He stands for a strong morality and family values which are under attack in America from the likes of the homosexual community. President Bush is a man's man!" Really? Well, so are most of the gays in America....
But not to be out down on hypocritical, redundant, but nonetheless hysterical (meant in both meanings of the word) Bill from Florida shows us just how important double standards really are. "The atheists have their beliefs and that's fine with me, but don't try and force that agenda on these young people." I only have one thing to say about that.... School prayer anyone?
All in all, this ultra, dare i say fanatical, religious fevour goes to prove one thing. George W Bush may be a God fearing christian, but I fear God's christians.
What the fuck is with ponchos? Especially the crochet variety? If someone can please explain to me why they look good, I'd really love to know. Am I missing something? Am I so old I have lost touch with the look on the street?
Well guess what? I'm glad I have no idea then, cause if THAT is fashion I'm glad, proud and totally thrilled am I a fashion wasteland.