Sanity Break

I'm currently off work for a few days. For the sake of my sanity I was really needing it. Although I'd worked 4 days on the trot (evil 10/12-hour shifts) and had 1 one day off, but then was back on Thursday. Despite having the day off in between, I felt as if I'd never left the place. However, I've got 3 days off, then 1 day on, then 1 day off, so it all balances out.

The 12-hour shifts suit me I think but the job itself is starting to do my head in. Maybe it's because I've spent so long in there recently but I was getting really fed up by Thursday. As well as the fact I'm becoming fed up with call centres in general, it's this particular one which I'm beginning to despise. Good days can be good days, but on bad days, a lot of the customers can be annoying (not so much in what they say but in thier tone of voice) - you get a lot of snobs on the phone - and it can be ultimately very unsatisfying. I'll wait and see how it goes over the next few weeks but I'm tempted to look elsewhere for employment. Not sure where else I would look though. One thing that's keeping me there at the moment is Karyn, a girl who I trained with, and whom I really really like. However, she's only staying another few weeks at most as she'll be back at uni next term.

I've recently done a bit of retail therapy and purchased a couple of DVDs and a CD from Fopp/Virgin. The first was a new copy of Pink Floyd's Meddle, as my old one was badly scratched. I've now basically replenished my Pink Floyd collection, as a few years ago, I took a lot of CDs to Barcelona in a crappy carry-case thing. Once I opened my bag once I got there, however, I discovered my bag was ripped, the CDs had fallen out the case, and were extremely scratched. I've only just gotten round to replacing some of them. I also got a DVD: "The Making of Dark Side of the Moon", which provides an interesting insight into the making of a classic album. I've recently been listening to it again. This was prompted by seeing Floyd at Live8, I think, and perhaps on a subconscious level I can relate to its themes of disillusionment, alienation and madness (well, not the last one I hope). I also got another Floyd DVD, "Live in Pompeii", and the film "Apocalypse Now", as it was going cheap.

On other news, my flatmate Shagger told me his bank had given him an overdraft, so not only could he have all the rent paid off in time, but he could also pay me back the money he owes me, in a couple of weeks - go Shagger! I just hope he sticks to his word. Only time will tell. On the subject of flatmates and flats, I've decided to definitely move out the penthouse at the end of August. I had a look at the newsagent in Byres Road which has all the flat adverts, but most of them were for complete flats, as opposed to single rooms for rent. I could possibly move back in to another place with Shagger, but I'm not sure I like living with a teenager, and he may be moving back with his parents or his gran anyway. I had a look online and found that there are plenty adverts for rooms in Glasgow, so I'll take a closer look in a couple of weeks. I find the idea of moving somewhere new exciting. I've become so used to it now, and despite the inconvenience of the upheaval, it's a bit of a buzz.

I've been watching a lot of Big Brother recently, and my choice of evictee has been the same as the general public, for the past few weeks. I wanted Saskia to go, then Maxwell, and this week I was hoping either Makosi or Vanessa. When it was Vanessa who got the boot, I was delighted - that girl did nothing but eat, sleep and cling onto Makosi - she was doing my head in.

Tonight, I might go to the Arches with Suzi and co, but to be honest don't know if I feel up to it. I'm just not in the mood for going out at the moment - been too melancholy recently, mainly because of my job stressing me out.