Well six working days to go until I finish my current job (yay!) and seven till I start my new job (eeek!).

Have acutally had a relatively interesting week, considering I’m ‘working’ which over the last year has tended to mean I do nothing but work, eat and sleep. I’m becoming a bit less of an introvert and being sociable: i’m now a facebook user and its scarily adictive trying to find people, i’ve also joined thingbox a sort of facebook for the gays. I’m getting a bit scared by this socialisation streak, but i think i need to re-establish contact with people after a year in the wilderness, and also meet some new people (possibly even a man?!?!?!?!?, eeek!).

I had my consultancy leaving dinner on Monday and went to a very nice thai restaurant called Isarn on Upper Street, and had a very lovely merlot and had fried chicken with ginger and chilli jam and brown rice. Conversation decended into politics with me basically being pissed off about London house prices, to which my boss suggested that I shouldn’t subscribe to the value set that owning your home is a symbol of success. I think I just have to marry into money. I also went to a lecture hosted by the RSA and the Forum for the Future which a friend of mine is an alumni of. It was very interesting particularly how it looks like emissions trading is moving up the policy agenda as a key mechanism, though how to convey and even ’sell’ it to consumervoters is certainly going to be a tricky topic. You can download an mp3 of the lecture and question session here.

I’ve also discovered a rather odd video of a guy wanking (no its not porn, its a part of a film contest where a number of shorts will be selected for a dvd to see how far the BBFC will let them go), but there was something rather moving about it (not in that way, though the guy is quite cute). Oh and its certainly NSFW, I’m sure you can work out if you’re of a disposition where you wouldn’t want to watch it.

Well time for bed, as yet another day of pretending to work is ahead.

Well today was a bit obscure. I had to pop in to work this morning to sort out my October timesheet (as it had to be done) and stayed there till after lunch (but not doing any acutal work and stopping others for doing theres). I then travelled to Euston to collect tickets for my various train journeys this week: to Norwich to see my sister, then from there to Nottingham to see one of my best friends, and then back to London. Oddly the ticket from Norwich to Nottingham costs almost double the ticket from London to Norwich and the Nottingham to London ticket combined.

I then decided to wander down to Covent Garden to get a haircut but then changed my mind and walked on to Tate Britain to see the Turner Prize, thank goodness as a Tate member I didn’t have to pay the entrance fee. The work by Tomma Abts was very good and I think she deserves to win, but its highly unlikely as it tends not to go to the ‘deserving’ artist. I then went and visited Chris Ofili’s Upper Room which I found very interesting, it’s sort of ’spiritual’.

Having had a scone in the café I decided to head home, picking up a leaflet for Holbein. I’ve known for a while that the freezer has needed to be defrosted though I’ve been putting it off, thinking about it though it might have been more suitable to have done it during the summer. I noticed today though that it isn’t shutting properly which might explain why it constantly whirrs, and why it was sooo snowed up. I’ve scrapped out enough ice to construct a small winter wonderland scene, but its only November so I’m not going to be festive yet. And now I have to walk over extremely cold floor in the kitchen.