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my team leader dropped another hint and said that pretty much all of may was out of bounds for holiday as well. fuck, fuck, fuck!!. i really need a break. the irony is that it will help me work better and i know i will be more productive after a break. i better get a fucking renewal in april because i am going to be pissed if i did not get a good deal on a holiday to tokyo and then it transpires that they change their mind and i dont get renewed at the end of april. 

the irony is that everything else is going well at work. i am picking up some good knowledge and the people are nice. they just will not let me take a break. its been nearly 8 months with out a break and it looks like they want it to be at least 10 months before they even consider letting me take a few days off. 

have missed a few mid week gym sessions over the last few weeks. the weather has been awful and sometimes the trains are screwed and by the time you get home late in the pouring rain, the last thing you want to do is go straight back out to the gym. once the days get longer and milder and we move towards summer i will ramp up my training once again. shit, its not like i am going to be anywhere near a beach any time soon so its not as if anyone is going to see i dont have any good conditioning. 

this is the only thing i have look forward to in a few months. 

tokyo

i had started to look for plane tickets to san francisco or los angeles over the last week or so, in anticipation of taking a trip when my contract finishes on april 22nd. i am gasping for a holiday and i did not go away last year so i really need to get out of london this year.

 

anyways a couple of days ago i got an email from virgin atlantic advertising a sale on fares for 4 days and it had Tokyo, Japan return flights for £599 which was about £150 less than a ticket to san fran. i looked into hotels yesterday and found it was not unreasonable so i made a plan to go Tokyo this year instead of Cali. it would actually be significantly cheaper than cali. the place looks amazing like its the set of bladerunner and i did some research and found some good shops that sell sneakers and old video game arcades. i would also have done some museums and gone to their main areas like shinjuku and shibuya and akihabara. there was only one slight doubt and that was work. my contract runs till april 22nd and so i planned to go on aril 24th. i mentioned it to my team leader and he replied that it would be a busy time to take holiday. i did say that my contract would have finished by then, but he said it was unlikely that i would not be offered a new one and that it would be particularly for the period end of april and may where they have to deliver some projects. arggghhhh!!!!!. tokyo trip cancelled postponed. :-(

its like famine and feast. no one calls me about a job for 6 months and i have lots of time on my hands but no money and then i get a contract and money and i cant take a week off in 10 months because they want me at work all the time. i am not going to forget the Tokyo idea. i am going to try and make that happen at the end of may when everything is delivered. i will be on my knees by then from not having a break. 

today i have mostly been listening to athlete - tokyo

Embrace - Refugees

starfucks

first signs of the demise of western civilisation. 

i cycled passed a starbucks and there were so many people in there that there were people queuing outside. its a coffee shop for fucks sake!. 

i bet the queue to see janes addiction play at whisky on sunset blvd in 1988 was not as long and the venue as packed as a fucking starbucks in st johns wood on a saturday afternoon. jesus wept.