Where did August go? I don’t think scientists should be worrying about global warming, the new headlines should be MONTH OF AUGUST IS FORTNIGHT ALARMING CALENDAR FANS. The environmental sensationalists got it wrong again this year, all you could hear about in June is how there will be 2 litres of water to supply the UK this summer, but how much has it rained this month? Well put it this way, there was about 2 litres of sunshine in August.
Highlight of the month was turning up to the ever growing Summer Sundae festival, another year of great, diverse music ranging from Coldcut, to Elbow, to The Buzzcocks.
The building I’m working in is pretty new, huge thing, extremely contemporary with lots of curves, glass walls, good lighting etc.
I was sat in the canteen earlier and I looked down the corridor and it was exactly like one of those sketches designers do – unbelievably perfect and full of colour, like a science fiction artist had drawn what the office of the not too distant future would be like. There are even 3 or 4 people standing talking to each other and another person sat on one of the seats like you always get in those prototype drawings to show scale and context. All that was missing were for the workers to be in a red uniform and have shiny communicators behind their ears with a tiny little coiled antenna poking out of the top.
I’ve obviously started to forget what fun is, because turning up to work every day is getting easier; I don’t kick and scream every morning, and I’ve not threatened to take a hostage for two weeks now. If this was a support group I’d get a round of applause for that.
Next month is going to be very unique, so it’s probably worth tuning in to read that update. And in general terms, this alien, yet way-too-quickly-becoming-familiar full-time working lark is coming to an end. Thank you for the money, but I don’t want to see the grim face of sedentary for a while.
