2001

 22^nd/ 23^rd March 

Dream

New job on station on Underground: Liv St.

Turned out not to be job, and not to be Liv St, and then I thought I might have turned up at the wrong time; 7.30 pm instead of am.

Bus queue

 Dirt stained pavement

Grey darkening sky

Untidy queue of people

Tired, unhappy people

Traffic noise and dirt

Like discarded pieces from a child’s game

Wind gusts

Fish and chip smell

Shuffling and fidgeting

Back aches, foot sore

Bus arrives

Shuffle of excitement

Expectation – like a herd of grazing animals

Unpolarised metal facing in a all directions

The bus like a magnet

We all point north

Shuffling forward like penguins

[think this is about catching a bus on Camberwell Road to go to work]

Pay

Mercury

Telecom

Council tax

Wednesday 30th May 2001 (estimated year)

Woken up at 5.30 by next door's crap music. S in spare room, don't know why. Listened to R4 theme tune, Farming Today, Prayer for Today, and then politicians on why other politicians are shit and lie.

Got up 7.30 after falling asleep for short while. Dreamt about RTS action on balcony which went right round top of tall building. It was a medieaval street. RTSers were crammed into space - multi-level - with police trying to control us. I was waiting for confrontation, that's why I was there. Andy Willis was there, as was Colin Napton. Colin wasn't happy with the politics and at some point turned against the demo. Colin and Andy were pretty much together during action, and I was in the thick of it, trying to lead or attempt direct action.

One of main organisers asked me to go to his flat to get toilet paper as we had run out. This was to be a dangerous and dificult thing to do, as I was to climb down part of building, go through crowd, and cross a police line. There was a shop with woman customer getting extremely arsey towards woman serving even though she had done nothing. She claimed stuff, and was going to make a complaint. I intervened and told girl she could quote me as a witness to say she'd done nothing and customer had a bad attitude.

Had a bath, coffee, read Observer. Saw loonies in noisy, trendy young persons flat shouting hello to passers by. S+++ said they might be on speed. They bloody woke me up at 5.30 with shit soul music.

R4 full of new outbreaks of foot and mouth. Gov are having to reintroduce the harsh isolation stuff again. And restricting movement. Farmers are not happy.

Sat on bench with coffee and Porgy. Then rushed to leave. Ran bath for S. Left. Rats were asking for food, but didn't have time. I'll need to feed them tonight.

Rode into work in 30 minutes. Hot and dry weather. Lots of cyclists. They completely blocked left hand lane on cycle lane at Hyde Park Corner.

Park was packed even at 9.00. Girls in dresses and short skirts. I'm envious as I'm stuck in bloody trousers.

Got to work at 9.10 and 3 other bikes in rack. Nick talked to me on way back from canteen. Then asked me if I knew anything about  BNC plugs. I said yes and offered to wire up box. The box in question is the one WSL built for connecting to ATP controller in code sweeps. But it doesn't work cos plugs aren't isolated from earth. They are earthing through the case.

Checked my money. Still OK.

Bedros dropped by just before lunch saving me the trip to 30TSC. IT was just to tell me that I'm transferred over to Asset Maintain, so now I work for Jeff Wood, and Bedros no more. Hurrah! S+++ phoned while Bedros was here.

Sorted old newspapers and managed to chuck loads out.

Left work at 4.50. Got home 5.20. Rushed to get stuff in bag and get to laundrette for 5.30. Then met S+++ on way home. Finished laundry by 7.00. Cuddled up and went to cook. Manage to piss S+++ off, she stormed out of kitchen and slammed doors. Stayed out of her way till 9.00. Dysoned flat, cleaned up kitchen, did dishes, cleaned rats, software for chat site. S+++ admitted she had the arsehole and hoped that she wouldn't tomorrow.

I stayed out of the way as much as possible. Had a quick bath.

Got into bed but we didn't talk at all. S+++ stayed up reading till after 1.00 and I didn't sleep. Still awake at 3am.