Handymen, assassins, playwrights and aliens

Yesterday I signed on for hopefully the last time for four months as I should start college in less than two weeks. Apparently I’m getting some pro-forma in the post to fill out, erm, yippee. My last signing went rather smoothly. I mentioned that I’ll need to change my job search agreement when I return from college as I’ll be looking for music and media related stuff. We shall see how that goes.

My girlfriend and I had a nice night in for Valentine’s Day. I bought her a card, some chocolates (most important!!) and some bath stuff from Lush. She seemed to like it. I got a card and a bottle of wine from her. Not sure when I’ll drink it though. We watched some episodes of 30 Rock together but then she seemed to really feel the cold and had to sit on the sofa with a duvet wrapped round her. I let her go to bed and warm up and after a while I joined her. Nothing romantic happened once I was up there, but it’s not like I was in the mood or awake enough anyway.

I bought a new guitar lead from a music shop that’s just opened in town. I can’t hook up my effects board without it. I’m looking forward to trying it out. Am I sad for getting excited about testing a piece of wire? Yes, ok, maybe I am.

We’ve got our usual handyman in fitting a rail for the shower curtain. There was a temporary one that was just spring loaded onto the wall. It was rubbish but did the job. I’m not a big fan of babysitting workmen, but what can you do. For some strange reason my girlfriend never books them to come out when she’s in the house. Funny that.

I bought Luc Besson’s Nikita in a charity shop in Scarborough the other day and started watching it yesterday without the subtitles on. My eyesight’s so bad now that it’s too hard to read subtitles so it’s easier for me just to guess what’s going on. I know the Nikita story pretty well anyway, so I’m not too fussed about he fine details. It’s nice to watch a foreign film for a change, rather than reading it.

I’m trying to think of ideas for plays that me and my girlfriend can write and perform together. She gets sudden bursts of motivation for doing things but when it comes round to actually doing them she manages to find herself feeling ill with a vague malady. Oh well, I try to be as positive as I can and always sound up for trying new things.

We’re going to the cinema tomorrow with some friends to see that new Pegg/Frost film “Paul”. Apparently it’s getting mixed reviews, but I wouldn’t expect anything more/less from those two. It sounds like a three star film, which will do me fine. I hope there aren’t too many kids and teenagers at the screening as I can’t handle the noise and threat of being teased.

I think the handyman’s arrived, so must go and tend to that…