August 22, 2006
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Foiled Again!
Damn!!! That’s such an old joke. Everytime the Fencing Team at UCLan walked into our local after a home match, the bartender would make that same dodgy pun! It stands as pretty appropriate right now, though, as this update was gonna be about my return to fencing! But its not! Cos I’ve been foiled! The Solihull Fencing Club that UCLan teammate Sabre Dave (on account of him being a sabreur. I’m a foilist!) attend when not at University is on a 3 week break, so now I gotta wait til, like, I’m due back at Uni til I can fence again! I’m gonna need a seriously hardcore refreshers course, lest I suck big-time!!! I’m gonna head round Dave’s tonight, just to say “Hi” and catch up. Jeez! I need my fencing to distract me from my missing of friends and dull work/dull no-work existence! Much like Sarv, who threw himself into his karate, I intended to throw myself into my fencing! Grrrrr!!! Arrrghh!!! I guess I will have to bore you with the details of fencing another time…!
OK, this past week I have worked a little (day shifts at a packaging firm, not nights at UPS anymore, thankfully!) The work is dull as hell and apparently I’m not “urgent” enough about the work! I guess thats why I haven’t been called back in this week! I need the money, but I can’t help feeling pretty apathetic about this working thing! 8-9 hours a day doing the same repetitive crap doesn’t engage me enough to take my mind off how much I miss NUFS, I House and most of all, my international family! (I sooooo wanna be hitting people with swords right now!!!) My weekend was pretty nice, by all accounts. Chris and I paid our first visit to our cousin Rachel’s apartment in Leicester! Leicester is, like, a half-hour car journey away so its weird we haven’t been before, since she and hubby Richard have been living there for 3 years now! I guess me being in Japan the whole past year and being at Uni most of the 2 years before that made it hard to find a time! We had an evening of pizza and hardcore board-gaming. (I twice successively destroyed the Jenga tower!!!) Saturday Nathan and I fish and chips-ed it (only the 2nd time I’ve had them since being back!) and watched “The Day Today”, a news-satire comedy show from the 90s. Its, like, cult, off-beat comedy which is lost on a lot of people, but we think its, like, the funniest thing ever! You kind of need to be familiar with British media to appreciate it, but I highly recommend it to anyone who likes Monty Python or abstract, random, off-the-wall comedy! ”Punk Comedy”, its sometimes called. After that we indulged in some video gaming (King Of Fighters 2003) and a Japanese movie called “Onmyouji” (translation: Yin-Yang Masters. Taoist clerics) It was pretty cool, and I understood I sizable of the Japanese too! Oh yeah! And my lightsabers have finally arrived!!! I think I’ll allow myself a smiley for that!
No big “Matt and Dani” update yet! As far as I know, Matt has seminars in the evenings for this whole week and Dani is off to Tokyo for a few days, presumably JET related!? Good News: They are getting their internet sorted and know when it will be “fully operational”! Bad News: It will be late September!!! Sad face, I reckon!
Another thought that occured to me, I’m wondering if me doing JET, at least near Matt and Dani, is a good idea…?! There’s this Owen Wilson film coming out called “You, Me and Dupree” which illustrates why I think it might be a bad idea! I will probably be round , like, all the time and whilst at first it will be a delightfully off-beat sit-com type experience I can see Dani throwing knives at me after the first month!
My motivation is still kinda low. I go to the gym with Chris but my “regular crunches” are becoming “irregular crunches” and risk becoming “not-at-all crunches”! I planned to do a lot of drawing (I still owe Rob and Mrs. Lott chibi pics! I haven’t forgotten guys, I’m just… well, read on!) I should get some solid Japanese practice in everyday too, but… *sigh! You ever felt… like… nothing!? Not good, not bad, just “nothing”! Since I’m in this mood, here’s some depressing haiku I wrote…
Golden leaves falling Alone and standing,
Scattered by a sudden wind Broken. Amidst a cruel wind
Gone! Our stolen dreams A tree in winter
Til next time! Peace, Love, “…so long and goodnight! So long and goodnight!!!”
Comments (26)
Oh wow, I’m the first for once. HA! And yes, I have felt that empty nothingness before…I guess almost everyone has at some point. I really like the haiku. And, what about a pic for me? *pouts* It’s okay, I know you’re busy though.
sorry for the nothingness feelings you are having. i think most people experience that from time to time.
as for your boring work–i worked in a factory for a summer when we first moved to kentucky. it was hot, sticky and messy work. i came home smelling like bleach. the machines were NOISY but i had fun singing (mostly praise songs) to the beat of the machine working (when the machine was not down for repairs.) i am very glad i had the experience there. find something to enjoy, david. you can pray for your friends while you are working….and write poetry in your head.
..and THANKS FOR THE UPDATE! …sorry if i seem preachy…
now go CRUNCH!!!
wow. everyone’s day is suckin today. mine is pretty freakin bad. i was hoping someone’s was good, so i could be happy for them or jealous. but no. let’s all go to sleep and start over.
beka, you so funny!
but a nap does sound like a good idea!
hmm….sad haiku, good tho’. if it’s any consolation I write a lot of poetry and it’s all quite depressing: p. I hope you days get better Keep Hope Alive[a motto that doesn't always makes sense but has a good point]
it’s ok. psycho me has pages of ‘depressing’ poetry on my xanga. personally I think it’s some of the best poetry written.
not mine but most so-called “depressing” poetry
Dude I am having a freaking awesome day!
Why can’t you have an awesome day? HUH?!?!
IS IT TOO MUCH TO ASK FOR YOU TO HAVE THE AWESOME DAYNESS!?!?!?!
WELL IS IT!?!?!
I don’t think so
So go have awesome day!
PANDA!
If you carry on having sad thoughts I’ll nag you !!!! And you don’t want that right ? And if you don’t do a drawing for me too, guess what… I’ll nag you !!! (This is becoming such a weapon jeech)
hey jerk!!! muahahahahahaaaa! INTARWEB!! i go pester other people now. love ya buddy!
woohoo! matt comments!
Do not forger young Moss-Boss-Masters, the Love is what gives a Friend his power. It’s an energy field created by all living things. It surrounds us and penetrates us. It binds the galaxy together.
We may be apart but our hearts are together!
Gah! Now i am being corny… At least i plugged a Star-Wars quote.
you’re 26 and still in college? what are you studying?
Ganbate! Still readjusting from leaving Japan, perhaps? I bet you’ll fall into a better routine soon enough (although it’s sometimes easier to become apathetic!), and, well, I can’t give much job advice, but money is always good. That’s about the only motivation I can think of…
*groans and throws stuff at you for the pun*
seeing as you’re not online now, I’ll assume you’re at work. good luck.
and the Jed-brother wants a chibipic too.
And then they ate the dog…
Thanks, Dave!
Hey Dave! Dont worry dude, I am missing everyone here alot……
to many sad faces. I feel better when I get out. Apposed to staring at my wall for endless hours. Ashley Mel and I are going to go out on the town and have a bit of a boogie tomorrow. Thats always good for the soul. I am going to up date my site soon. So you can read about all the dull details here in I house. Cheerio for now.
I almost forgot……. I have recreated an exact likeness of myself. I think that it might shame your work……. no no its ok you dont need to tell me how talented I am. I just somehow know already.
the pic of my mom is most excellent. now dani wants one too, hahaha. ganbare!
maybe dave should start charging for the pictures….and he should at LEAST sign them!
…now that i have mine for free, i can say that! i am soooo cheap!
…the lottery…win the lottery…
Yes! Finally I get my act together and put my chibipic up as a profile picture. Huzzah!
university, sorry. lol. xanga has been having some weird glitches lately. o well they’ll fx it eventually. it seems like everyone i know who goes off to university has their lives crash down around them and tries to kill themselves. it’s a bit creepy, but i got that out of my system at 15 so i guess i’m the really odd one. ah well time to shut up: p
i better put my chibi-pic up too!!
Also, i like it how you define the daves by their primary weapon, like some kind of video game (sabre-dave… does that mean you are foil-dave? alternately foot-dave if you go by your taekwando training. depends which weapon is higher + to hit…) *geeky* >_<”