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Tuesday, 07 October 2008 |
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Autumn in Berlin really gets you down, especially if you've spent an unusually briliant weekend in Britain, where it was chilly but still sunny, whilst the skies opened up over the German metropolis and the cold Eastern winds from Russia blow relentlessly, no mountains to stop them.
What else gets me down is the new Great Depression that's got its grip on the world - although I'm no banker and don't know any - and doesn't seem to ease off. I keep checking my RBS account to see if the couple of hundred quid are still in there. I also feel the depression at work where it's been boring as hell, especially with for PJMs trying to please the boss by looking and acting busy although there's not much else to do apart from reading any online paper version there is in the world. Then, of course, just when you want to get off home at 18.00, an especially important client sends an urgent request, and because the dedicated PJM has been smart enough to feck off early, I'm the chosen one and don't get home before half 7, despite a day spent in utter boredom. I just wish I had a job I look forward to when I wake up in the mornings....suppose that'll never happen. I dream of working in a book shop, part time. I can afford it, because I've won the lottery. Our two bedroom ground floor flat has turned into a 4 bedroom top floor flat with high ceilings and winged doors. I spent idle hours on the balcony with a glass of expensive read wine and the evenings writing on my antique desk. Blablabla. But hey, excellent news, a publisher in the UK will use one of my poems for their anthology that's de to come out in Januray, so not all is lost on the writing front.
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