Hello once again. It’s been a while hasn’t it? Well I’ll admit that I was starting to get wary of the essentially posting the same kind of story every time. The usual “tired, bored, depressed, getting nowhere” theme was cropping up. While that could be seen as the point of the blog to air things out so to speak, I was thinking it might not make the best reading.
So what have I been doing all this time? Well there’s been another forum meet that went OK. I think I stuck to the same corner again, but it was hardly a disaster. I think I could make a graph of people at meet versus communication from myself and there’d be some exponential relationship there somewhere. As in, the more there the quieter I get. I think the next one is going to have a fair few there I don’t know too well and with it being summer it’ll be a big turnout. Jon will be there though so I may have someone to bounce off. I’ll find out how it goes on Saturday 26th July.
In other social news, my brother took me to see a Daniel Kitson standup show. At first I’d never heard of him and even being told “he was in Phoenix Nights” I was none the wiser after seeing a small picture of him with a beard. He was Spencer who was behind the bar in the second series. I’d say that he’s a very geeky kind of act and his humour appeals to that element in me. As I said to my brother at the time, it was comedy “for people that think too much” and for that I rate him rather highly. There were jokes about the horror of having to deal with cocky youths on the bus and helping old ladies. Perhaps this form of comedy, with the constant worry of doing the right thing and the protocol you think people expect were what appealed to me most. I’d say that the laughter was fairly constant so it appealed to the rest of the audience anyway. If you see him doing a show somewhere, I’d recommend you get in there and see him. I am told though that while he’s not that well known, he does have a tendency to sell out and it’s difficult to get tickets, so get in early.
On that night, my brother had brought his friends along. I can’t say I wasn’t expecting this and there wasn’t a complete disaster for me. Just one factoid on Charlie Higson being the writer of the early James Bond books was enough for me to get by and for the rest of the time I was able to keep quiet and let my brother and his mates go on. Perhaps not the best way to go about things, but I do have difficulty getting in when everyone else knows each other so well and talk about their shared experiences. Maybe that’s the same for everyone.
Job-wise I’ve gotten off the ground a bit by searching for voluntary work and actually found a place and applied. At the moment though I’m waiting for a response. Maybe at some point I will enquire, but I’m possibly dragging my feet a bit as this is alien territory for me. My excuse for waiting so long is that the manager was off at the time I sent it in and she needed written responses from two sponsors so I’m accounting for the time to write and get back and so on. This being a charity shop, they need assurances that I’m not a danger. As you can see it’s a retail job and my thinking was this would be OK for improving my social skills. I do have my doubts at times though as to how suitable I may really be. Maybe I’d be better doing a quieter desk based job where I could work away unhindered? I’m intending to find out what’s going on at some point this week or next.
I think that’s about it for now. Sorry again for the long wait if you keep popping by. I wouldn’t be surprised if I’m only being read by occasional passers by and spam bots at the moment.
Until next time.