3 things you did today

1) Got up at around 12noon. Only to find a letter from the court saying I had within ten days to pay off remaining fine. If I didn't the courts mafia would come crashing through my door, the police would arrest me, the court would chuck me into an jail over what is affectively 26.30 remaining. So I will pay on Monday and hope that they don't take further action. The letter was dated 15/01/08. Yet I recieved it only today. In the letter it stated that I had ten days from reciept of letter. I went straight out after accepting the fact I could do nothing about it till Monday. Went to Library only to find internetoholics bickering with each other and booking terminals in advance. Our library's internet service is amongst the slowest in Britain. No wonder they put it up to an hour ago. You need atleast 20 minutes to get to the homepage.

2) Looked in reference library whilst waiting for some internetoholic to peel her butt cheeks off the seat. I saw the woes of the market crash. Gordon Brown being as indecisive as ever. Ken Livingstone facing enquiry. Yet more phantom police efits that suggest a suspect. I bet if they put Mr Blobby on the pages, there would be a massive amount of calls confirming sightings of Mr B.

3) I discovered today as I watched tv that Neighbours is moving to Five from 11th February. This is ironic because it now the date I have to collect porned DTR . I have to prioritise the blooming fine. But on the positive side, that is the final payment. End of story. I learned my lesson through wrath of law. It is sunny outside, there is no food in my cupboards. I cannot wait till Monday. I am starving but still make do with porridge oats and lemmon squash. Times are hard.

 

1) I fell asleep from about 12:00 -15:00 when my dad woke me by shouting he was off to his accountants.
2) I stayed in bed reading
3) Went for a walk to get some fresh air and star lots of stars in the sky and made plans for tomorrow.

 

1. Came home to find the kitchen fitters were still in the house. Sitting with 5 burly builders isn't reeaally my thing so I sat outside in the sun!
2. Washed my hair using yucky dregs of god knows what on it
3. drank my chai tea, it was spicy and sweet, but OK

 

1) Got up this morning at 11:15. I got dressed and went down to the surgery to get repeat medication. I left for the chemist after discovering my weight, my blood pressure and of course my prescription. On the way down the road toward the chemist along Lewisham Highstreet, opposite Ladywell leisure centre and the fire engine, and happens to be next door to a newsagent with post office for all the cast of Thriller to withdraw their pensions. I came out five minutes later ladened with legal medication. I had so many, I had to stuff the lot in my pocket.

2) I go to the library, only to find the usual internet-dependent cases all sat, eyes attached so firmly to the screens, if a fire alarm rang, nobody would be able to leave their beloved computers. So I am sat looking at the internet, the usual flash up ads bombard my visual range. I of course still feel concerned about that fine notice. Let me explain:

3) For the past six months, I have been paying £20.00 a month. Now the last three months I paid it off per month in one trip, as opposed to two trips to pay tenner a fortnight. Now I get this letter from the fines officer, who says I need to pay the outstanding balance £26.30 WITHIN TEN DAYS TO CANCEL ALL ACTION AS LISTED IN LETTER. Now they sent the letter on the 22nd January, yet it was written on the 15th January 2008. Now in the letter it was saying within ten days of date letter was written. So I cannot do anything right now, except hope that when I pay the outstanding balance on Monday, I won't hear from them again. If I am taking to court, I believe I may have a case. I believe that there shouldn't be an issue as to how I paid, but moreover if I paid. The courts at my summns agreed that I should pay twenty pounds a month. In the last three months I did one trip and paid twenty for the month. Because it would cost eight pounds extra a month on the buses per month if I went up twice. So if I only went once, it would only cost me two pounds a month in one trip via oyster. The court on the day of sentencing took into account my financial circumstances. So they accept my financial position. I hope that I can sort this out Monday. Due to the fact, I recieved the notice yesterday, by the time I sent any letter, I wouldn't have heard from the fines office for another week, so I speak from prior experience. I had to write to the fines office to get quashed a double sentence. It was later quashed, so I hope that if I am taken to court, they will bare that in mind. I have all reciepts and have the letter and envelope which contains the ROyal mail sorting office stamp.

As I sit looking at the internet, I feel like I am on a pig farm. Mid morning munchies

 

1. Woke to the sound of decorators singing baggy trousers
2. had the strangest breakfast ever of 6 crackes and a mini roll
3. sat on here all morning doing nothing

 

1) Changed what I was doing in the day and began sorting out uni notes
2) Got a call from HR who said I could now start my job a month earlier!!!!!!!!
3) Paniced at whether to take it or not, seeing as I now have nowhere to live

 

Im here scoffing a pink lady apple and all the bunnies are sharing one too and its all slurps and gulps. I feel like im on a pig farm too. It feels juicy

 

1. Overslept so felt groggy and foggy all day
2. Ate toast, drank coffee. Helped a bit.
3. Struggled with stupid fucking MP3 tagging software.. fuck MusicBrainz is all I will say on the subject.

 

4) Agreed to change start date
5) Found a flat!
6) Jumped around a bit

 

1) Bought me a new violin - very very excited!!
2) Went to the town I was born in - very strange and very different to where I grew up
3) Saw some Hells Angels

 

1. worked

 

1. Walked my dogs.. incredibly muddy
2. Gave said dogs a bath
3. Went out for a meal for some unknown reason

 

Travelled 10 miles south
Laughed at young girl plastered in makeup on her mobile with double pushchair and kids running around her, saying "Yerr oim in Debuhnuurrms naaw...gona goo n foind Jowdy arf'er, shes fuckin dead she is, gona smack er up real gud, yerr i know, omg nooo way"
Bought some bargain clothes. Felt a bit like a vulture picking over the scraps, everything labelled "final clearance price" and dumped in very confusing heaps everywhere. Successfully located a dress, a skirt and a hat suiable for the honeymoon all under a tenner each. Hoorah!

 

1) I was up all night watching various programmes including the News, 3000 miles to Graceland and NHL on five. I had no food except onions. I have only ate a few bowls of porridge and gravy since Thursday. I was practically starving. Thank God that I now have my dole money. I crashed out at aroun 07:30 just after I heard next door neighbour get ready for work. Got up at 12:30.

2) Went and put on my knickers, my trousers and all the other robes, then set at a pace down cobbled streets to the post office. Got benefits, but left some food money for the week after next. This will cut my temptation to nibble at it. I went to the usual court and paid off my fine. I now owe nothing more. It is a sigh of relief that atleast one sentence is over. By the time I got into Lewisham, little groups of school girls lined the streets with their hollas and squeals. Hunted around for a pair of jeans. went to primark and purchased a pair of jeans for 4 pounds. I am on tight budget. Still a bit tired.

3) Planning to do shopping tonight when it is not so busy. Yet again, I will be walking down the streets with neon lights glaring in my ashen face, the wind against my skin and the tears ready to fall and drip onto the dusty floor like a new emotion. I wanted to go to a Seminar tonight. But because it is in Sydenham, I am not up to walking in the dark. Its all about budget.

 

1. Got up normallish time, forgot I'd tipped everything out my school bag in a fit of madness yesterday, so was hideously late for school.
2. Realised I didn't even have to be there til second lesson
3. Broke into my own house to get some lunch cos I had left my keys and money in there.

 

1. Started lectures again
2. Panicked about an assignment that was supposed to be in today.. turns out it's due on friday.
3. Bunked off the second half of A&P2.

 

1) Messed about this morning
2) Went for coffee
3) Went a lovely walk with even better company

 

- Blushed
- Looked up and coded a shitload of invoices
- Baked brownies

 

1. Woke up stupidly late (again) and ate a yoghurt

2. Forgot my memory pen (again) so struggled with my RE coursework
3. Made plans to leave school early and go and buy food and ask for a job in the wholefood shop

As an aside, if I've forgotten my memory pen, I've also forgotten my keys, looks like I'll have to break into my own house (again).

 

1) woke up at 11:30 after hearing the door being knocked. I then heard, "Oh well". Before the enigmatic visitor melted away. Got into my clothes and thought about leaving the house.

2) Came to the jobclub.Worse luck. For some strange reason there are not many in today, but then they could all be down the alleyway smoking ciggerettes and talking about how life sucks.

3) Nothing much to add, but I have stuck with my budget, managed to get a weekly shop from Tesco for under 17 pounds. Also, I am wondering what the dream meant last night. I had someone singing some 1988 Scritti Politti song called, Don't feel sorry for loverboy. Might have some meaning, but then again it could just be an extract thought lingering like some sort of MP3 player in my virtual death. Well, as they say, you apply for a job and hear nothing more. That is exactly how it has been for the past month on the jobfront. As I sit at the internet, six year old girls in groups run about the library with glee. Gone are the days when a librarian would say, "shoosh.Please be quiet". It is asthough the library is a second playground for girls and boys alike. A potential spawning ground, if you want my theoretics on innercity reality. Last night at eight, Dispatches on channel four painted a very realistic picture. I can say that channel four are very realistic and they know what they are on about.

But yet again, I feel a sense of forboding. I know my sentence finished yesterday. The fare evasion sentence. In less than six months, my major sentence will come to an end. It will be strange not having to go to probation and run a bunch of lines to give account to my everyday actions. From scratching my arse to watching Futurama-perhaps. I just hope that through my example, other young people may be spared the ravages of prison. For if there were a hell, prison would be it.

For today. Two books I reccomend to young people: The road less travelled.
And finally, A prison diary, volumes 1-3. Use these books like it were a modern uptodate scroll. It might save a few lives.
So tonight, what will I do? Eat, watch tv and perhaps listen to music, before sleeping.