death by email

it was hard to get out of bed this morning. motivation is low on a monday when you know you are going to be bored all day and all week. to top it off its horrid weather outside. its dark and its raining in that way when you know its going to carry on like that all day. the weather today is the type i just hate the most. if you are going to rain, then do it properly and come down like cats and dogs and enough already with this persistant slow falling rain that just seems never ending.

also feel a little cut off from the world today as i forgot my phone at home. its weird how reliant you become on it. it means i can't take calls from recruiters and i can't text and call my friends either. its just me on my own cut off from the rest of the world stuck here in this soulless bank for the rest of the day.

speaking of the bank, i have got a little bit more access but still not everything i need. i have made people aware of it and all they say is "chase it up". i would have thought telling someone once would be enough. have never heard the phrase "chase it up" so many times in a place in my life. i was sitting at the desk of one of the team leaders and he had 3,500 unread messages in his inbox. wow!!. no wonder nobody responds to email if they are all like him. any message must just get lost with all the other crap and its all frighteningly inefficient. i get bombarded with all kindfs of crap sent to me. they really shouldn't email so much crap to everyone. its like death by email. anyways i just have to remind myself that its 7 weeks till the end of the year after which we will find a brighter day somewhere else.

saw a special offer on plane tickets to LA for travel in june '09. was nearly tempted to buy one because it was such a good deal, but i have no idea where or what i will be doing then, so i didn't in the end. it was nice to think about it for a while. i miss california even more on days like these.

had another quiet weekend. was supposed to go to a friends house on saturaday night but the trains were screwed and i would have had to have taken a bus and then a train and then a 15 minute walk at the other end. it was raining on saturday night and it was too much hassle to get there and back home so i gave it a miss. spent most of yesterday tidying up. threw out a ton of crap that i didn't need but had just accumalated over the past few months and years.

today i have mostly been listening to MGMT - time to pretend. awesome song.