March 9th

Another day (well 5 ½ hours) in the fast paced world of IT support.

It’s raining. There was a man who wouldn’t get out of my way on the pavement this morning. He had his headphones on and looked like he was listening to angry music that made him feel empowered. I just smiled and moved out the way.

Walked past Mandy who was walking really slowly. Didn’t want to get locked in and have to make polite conversation for 10 minutes while I walked into work. Wanted to carry on listening to Run the Jewels (1). Shouted across the road and picked up speed. Job done. 

This kind of thing happens every now and again. It’s terrible. If wad a better person I would match her speed and have a nice chat. What about though? What would I chat to her about? I would imagine she is as relieved as me. Probs more so.

Hearing about disasters in the lives of other people. Good to know it’s not just me. 

Marvel and Game of Thrones chat. Thrilling. 

First person calling in. Didn’t have the correct information. Shocker. I can’t help you if you can’t help yourself. It could potentially be a busy day. I don’t know how I feel about that. 

Oh they have called back and have found themselves speaking to someone more helpful than me. Good on them. Happy days.

It’s raining. It’s always raining. Floodlands (and driven apart).

Someone has left me some sweeties on my desk. That was very kind of them. I am kitted out today. I have food and a drink. I can make it. Had a sausage cob for breakfast which I will no doubt get in trouble for (what with the smell and everything). 

Did a bit of Dark Souls again before work. It’s amazing having a portable version of this. Just popping on for 5 mins makes it a joy. My favourite game of all time. I hated it at first. 3 years later it saved my life. Now I have spent about 500 hours on it. 

Lots of game talk. I am in with geeks. I mean this in the 2^ndbest possible way (the best possible way being with the internet girl geeks that don’t really exist but use it as a way to make money).

Listening to other people again. The radio is not playing any songs that I want to take an interest in. 

Confusion over incorrect addresses. People don’t know where they live. This is a true thing. I am not even joking. Most days I love people like this because it’s a pretty amusing phone call. When I am in a bad mood then I just want to throw them out the window. Which I can’t, because I can’t find them, because they don’t know where they live.

I am aware I may be repeating things here. This is my job. The same things happening over and over again. Repetition. Still it’s easy and I can do it in my sleep.

I have a poor view, but at least I have a window I can look out of.

I am locked in a boring conversation I need to feign interest. I am not very good at stuff like that and prey for annoying customers to call.

Everyone always picks the worst time possible to go to the toilet. 

Talking to much to someone that wants an argument is never going to turn out well. To control a phone call you need to control silence and not say a lot of words. Again I love people that want an argument. They are what I got to school for. Everyone else is so generic and boring. 

No bangers yet. Bland FM. 

Everyone is always telling me what TV to watch. I don’t have time to watch all the stuff I want to see yet alone 703 series of Supernatural or some program about a girl with tattoos that sounds like it’s ripped of Memento. There is too much to consume. There used to be not enough now there is just a tidal wave of product. Why can’t we ever reach a happy medium where there is just enough? We always go straight to tipping point.

I am the only person that hasn’t left their desk yet and gone for a wander. 

I might have a sweet now. It’s 9:06 am. Tangfastic !!

Oh got rid of Instagram (kind of). Prepare for cow / guitar pics.

Sorry about that. 

Having a can of Lilt – because I am Jamaican and also thirsty. Like everything it would taste better with loads of alcohol in it. I don’t have loads of alcohol.

WOLS

WOLS

WOLS

The sun is out. I hope you are all having a nice time out there. 

Wow they want £999 for Swans ‘Soundtracks for the blind’ LP. I thought it was expensive at £54. Should have snapped it up.

91 minutes. I could have watched ‘You were never really here’ in this time. I might try and get the book of that. Wonder if it’s any good. 

It’s time to go to the toilet for the sake of going to the toilet. This is something that happens as well. Got to be done. 

Orange vitamin urine. Attractive.

I can see two people out there in the wild. They must be down the other end of the room Either that or there are only five people in the building. It has happened before. We had three in at one point due to management not being able to do rosters. I want to eat my sandwich but I am not hungry. I just want something to do. It’s far too early. 

Ooo an email. How exciting. 

Basic. Nothing taxing. Scotland. 

9:51 – The first time so far I have heard someone give the wrong information out. It’s usually much earlier than this. 

13 new people are starting on Monday. I have no idea what they are going to do as there is not enough work for the people that are here at the moment. Staff retention at this job is abysmal. They treat people so poorly they can’t wait to be out the door. You have to realise you are not a person but just a number on an ever changing spreadsheet. When you realise that you have won the battle and can turn it around. You sometimes have to dive into the abyss to get there but if you can come back you are reborn. You may be just a number but you are a prime number. You can only divide by you. Plus the job is a piece of piss. 

1113 words. 1115 now. I am chasing something that I can never catch up. Time for a salted toffee macadamia drink (which will taste nothing like salted toffee macadamia). I had half my sandwich. I am that mad. I managed not to spill corned beef, mayo or cress on myself. Result. 

If everyone is a priority. No-one is a priority. That’s my mantra. 

The Division 2 has started it’s 90gb download. I look forward to enjoying that for about an hour and then getting bored of it. The greatest online experience I have ever had with randoms was on the original Division. That’s why this gets a pass. I hope I can make some friends. I just want someone to talk to in the evening. Anyone will do as long as they are nice and interesting. 

Boredom. Boredom eating.

10:05

Lot’s of games talk. Fair enough.

A wrong number. That’s 20 seconds of my life I am not getting back. 

As always happens there is nothing. nothing . nothing.

THEN EVERYONE CALLS IN AT ONCE OR WANTS SOMETHING DOING AT THE SAME TIME.

It’s like they all get together on internet forums and shout GO GO GO CALL NOW. To each other.

Done now. The sea is calm again. Bad music is playing. The world is as it should be. 

11:03

Wish I had an invisible / silent guitar to noodle on. Always gets rid of stress and is so much better than stuffing my fat face full of sweets. Pascal (who sits opposite) spends all day drawing. I guess I do this. Just passing the time. Just passing the time. 

Drip. Drip. Drip – until the tap is fixed and we all die. 

I would take a tramadol to make the world go wonky but it will make me feel terrible and a half for the next two days. 

Everyone is strangely quiet now. We are all doing our own thing which is better than the other persons thing.

So many blue lines. Underlining the mistakes I have made in my life. Underlining why I am here. 

Another problem solved. Another person in Scotland (why is it always Scotland on a Saturday) able to tell the world how important they are on social media. Let me break it down for you. You are not very important. Even if you are Taylor Swift you are not very important. EVEN if you are the dancing girl you are not very important. We are all just decay waiting for entropy to destroy us. Remember that the next time you tell me how much fun you are having drinking cocktails and proving it with a picture.

Apparently a change is coming. It’s a special secret change though that we can’t know about. Only some of us can. But those people have been told not to tell anyone else. This is the way of things. Something else to worry about. 

The most exciting thing happening now is a remix of ‘my favourite things’ which is mostly terrible. It seems like a very long day so far. 120 minutes to go. 

Discussion turns to The Greatest Showman. I have nothing to add to this. I thought it was dreadful. Enough people love it so I must be wrong. The people that love it think it is based on someone called Barnaby which shows you the level we are at. Maybe I need to watch it again. Would sooner not though so let’s move on. 

So now my whole weekend is ruined knowing that I have something top secret to worry about. Thanks for that everyone that works here. I expect as ever I will be the last to know. I wonder what dead end job I will end up in next? I should be retiring soon but I have no doubt I will end up somewhere else that’s an utter waste of my time. Either that or they will make my life so difficult part of me will break again. Why can’t there just be order. Why can’t things move in a straight line. Who knows? It might be for the best. I’m tired of this though. It’s no way to live.

I need to eliminate things to worry about. 

Destroy all monsters.

It’s not even 12pm yet and everything has fallen apart. 

Help me.

12:00 Dinner time for everyone but me. Left alone, left alone again.

Still nothing happening. I have enough time to watch ‘You were never really here’ and then it’s home time. 

Mass debate about how rubbish it is here and how badly we are treated which is backed with another debate about how we are all going to get sacked and how bad that will be? I don’t understand but at the same time I totally understand. We are all basically the same. 

The day is broken and so am I.

Just let’s power though then.

To the end.