Back in to the swing of things again now, as the new school term is properly underway. My life is embarrassingly comfortable, though I have made it a slightly more awkward by doing an additional private class this term; making 3 nights per week. The little darlings are all super sweet as I bribe them with Scooby Doo cartoons and video games before being escorted to the torture chamber, I mean classroom. With the young ones, (6-7 year olds) it's horrible amount of reading, at which they are excelling, lightened by some colouring or a cut and glue exercise. The older ones, it's all about talking with awful 2 minute presentations assigned to howling groans and wimpers. In at the deep end. Still, they might thank me when they're about 35.
Right now, I am just amazed at the great babes I live and work with. Oi, Phit and Gee are all very super and it's a hell of a team. Posh, frightened parents quiver at the door, stealing glances of the strange white monkey entertaining their children. I have always been fairly good at working, if nothing else, and can run rings around most people here. Even, if I am dreadfully lazy. I lead the double life I have always led; polite, shy, professional and ever so nice....and the dark, menacing, self indulgent, bloated junkie that I truly am. Such fun.
Right now, I have stopped DL movies, last ones being Evil Dead Trilogy, Flawless (Micheal Caine at his best) and moved onto TV series shows for some light relief. And oh, what corkers I have found, or think I have found. This new one, Dirty Sexy Money with Donald Sutherland started greatbut is in danger of turning into The OC, though it is tres similar to a book my brother gave me; The Winslow Legacy. And I have heard that Californication is a must with the X files dude at some disillusioned middle-class....God I can't bear to complete the sentence. Along with my theory that all things are relevant, it sounds like it parallels the empty lives so many of us lead these days.
Gaming is taking it's toll and my interest wanes with every passing day as I reach beyond puberty. When I play the Crysis Wars online, I am nearly always stoned and hence my reactions are somewhat impaired. Thus I get nailed countless times by some cocky 13 year old spud and called names like "Loser" for hanging about in one spot trying to pick off passers by, instead of charging around and flying through virtual air like most of the gam-heads. Be it so.
I think it was Oscar Wilde who said that there was nothing more vomit-inducing than a newly married couple, and I can see why when I look at the little bubble of happiness that Oi and myself find ourselves in. In over a year we are still to have cross words and can sit side by side for hours with barely a word spoke as she plays Pizza Frenzy and I play Peggle on our respective coms.
She's being very clever with her new school. Officially there as a work experience girl, as part of her degree, she speaks the best English in the school and hold no responsibility like the usual slave teachers there. She can come home at 4.30 and has no extra duties. We have to make sure these nasty Chinese school owners don't have her in shackles like the rest of their staff.
I am really enjoying Of Human Bondage and relieved I am not yet half way through. It is the only book I have read in some time that I truly love and can relish each carefully scripted line. Read it if you can.
Movie night comes around again and Tom and Don I think are both a little apprehensive of coming over these days, though of course there is no need.
We went to see Lee's baby girl the other day. Unfortunately he was absent as two of his students were in a motorcycle accident. One died. So sad this and a daily occurrence here.
The first black American pres? Good luck, son. See if you can dig your way out of the shit Bush has left you with. I am still dumbfounded at how little "fuck you Bush what the fuck have you done to our country" talk there is. I can't believe it. Has the whole world gone lame? He should be tied to the back of a horse and dragged through the streets of Baghdad in the dirt. At least the Ruskies are pushing.
Still waiting for the effects of the crash to really kick in, I notice production is slowing quite dramatically and I would anticipate large scale redundancies in the near future. I hope all my pals are okay, obviously. Once those Yankies are out on the streets with no job and no money which could see some interesting anarchistic action. And lets see if Obama is taken out within a year as Don predicted. Then, there really would be no hope for human beans.
Take care, peps.
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