A Creature of Habit

I'm still nocturnal at the moment - didn't get to bed until about 5am and up until 1.40pm. Again, I've been doing very little. I've fixed my curtain (one of the "things" came undone - don't know what they're called), and I've gone to the O2 shop to enquire about my GPRS setting for my phone. Another thing I did was go by the Stevenson Building (Glasgow Uni), to enquire about graduate gym memberships. It turns out that it's £330 annual (or £27.50 monthly) for a full access membership. I'm not sure if I want a membership though as I'd mainly just be using it for the pool, and perhaps the treadmills/cross-trainers. I'm not sure if I'd want to use all the facilities. I'll wait and see how I feel about it in a couple of weeks.

It's interesting to note that no matter how little I have to do, I seem to make tasks for myself, no matter how minor or petty. This is probably part of human nature; the need to be occupied/busy. How many times have you heard people say things like: "there's always something needing done", "a mans work is never done" and "there's not enough hours in the day"? I think it's because we make work for ourselves, whatever situation we're in. Some people like to be constantly challenged. Personally I'm only ever content if I have a goal of some kind, no matter how small. I probably should've worked the rest of this week, as I wouldn't be so bored!

The main thing for me is to get settled into the new job and that means getting a good sleep on Sunday night and up early Monday morning. I'll need to learn C# as well, which I suppose I should be doing now but I'll wait until I go in on Monday and see if they've got any books on it I can borrow. My aims at the moment are to stay in the flat and the job for at least a year, to get settled in. Hopefully I can put all this randomness behind me and start to lead a more "normal" life. Having such a random routine is very detrimental, and I often find myself feeling moody, irritable or depressed for no apparent reason. Lack of motivation is a factor too! Even when I was doing the training at O2 over the past couple of weeks I found myself feeling a hell of a lot better! It helps to have some social contact as well, as opposed to being isolated for days on end. Anyway this kind of rant and a lot of the entries in this blog are products of my randomised mental state. Enjoy it while you still can!

I'm going down to Prestwick tonight, for a change of scene, and while I'm in the bus station I can pick up some timetables for buses to East Kilbride. There are a couple which go from/to the west end to/from E.K: the 18, 20 and the 66. I'm glad I've got plenty choice, but even then they all take about 1 hr 20 mins one way. Hence I'll probably have to spend about 3 hrs per day commuting, but I don't mind for now as the main thing's the job. I can always sleep/read/listen to music on the bus anyway, so it's not a major problem. I considered getting the train, which takes 30 mins from Central, but add time taken travelling by subway and walking also, and it would take about the same time overall as the bus. The bus(es) apparently stop very near where I'll be working so it's much more convenient.

Sorry if this is boring you but these are my thoughts at the moment and you are choosing to read them.