The Secret Life of Andrew

Is it really been since Wednesday that I last updated?! The shame. I’m getting lazy at this LJ lark. Last Wednesday sparked the beginning of Big Brother! Hurrah I hear you cry! Oh, wait, that would be a cry of pain I hear. I can’t say that I hated as many of them going in as I usually do and I did take heart that the useless, jobless, arrogant ones got a booing from the crowd. However, maybe I’m naïve but I just don’t remember previous years contestants wanting to strive for fame as much as this lot do. It’s really impressive. I made the mistake of watching it again since and I had to endure some tramp banging on about how great it’d be to be a WAG. Yeah, you silly cow, why don’t you kick Emmeline Pankhurst in the face while you’re at it. Honestly, I can’t decide whether the general feminism engrained in our culture is really going backwards or if Big Brother really as just picked a stupid bunch of people. James says he likes watching Big Brother with me because I rant all the way through it, but I don’t like the effect it has on me and would much rather remain oblivious to people stupidity. Must. Not. Get. Sucked. In. Even if Carol break dancing was brilliant.

Right, other stuff then. On Friday, Sarah, my supervisor and so one of the reasons I got the job I did left work. So we had a little party in the staff room which was nice, and later we drank the champagne that both me and Sarah had been given for getting the College through OfSTED. Good times :D I’d been having a general feeling of being rubbish at the end of last week so it was a nice way to end the week. I dunno what it was really. I’ve just been feeling like I’m good at anything I do. There have been some issues with a set of minutes I wrote, when I covered for another member of staff, that have errors in it (I must say that because I was covering for someone else I didn’t really have up-to-date knowledge of the stuff being said. I have little to do with admissions). But, the thing is that nobody’s said anything to me. This kind of make me thinks that it’s something to do with one of the Directors (who checks the minutes first) been put on as the new chair of the Committee and less to do with my uselessness. But still.

I was also feeling pretty crap about theatre. I’m not the best light and sound guy ever, I know that and I was getting on my own nerves about me being rubbish on Thursday. Weirdly though, on Thursday and Friday it was said at work and at theatre how great I was at both so there you go, I’m just being insecure.

I’ll tell you what some of it is to do with though. It’s crazy that I haven’t mentioned this yet, but I’ve been having problems with my eyes. Yes, more so than usual :p Well, actually it’s more to do with my contact lenses which have been being really uncomfortable of late, so much so that I’ve been wearing my glasses to work. Now I rarely wear my glasses outside of the house and they’re a bit old now and the paint is coming off them (most un-buff) so having to wear them out and about has made me feel crap and self-conscience, which probably has something to do with me feeling rubbish last week.

Thankfully Saturday brought an eye test and it’s a coincidence that I was due for one what with the crapness of my eyes. I was actually pretty worried because when I’d take them out after irritating me my eye would be red. Not bloodshot red really, but around the iris. Weird. So I explained my problem to my lovely new optician and he seemed to think that it has something to do with me moving to Skipton, which would make a bit of sense. He said that the Skipton Specsavers is three years old now and he’s been there that long after moving from Preston. Having had no problems in the North West he was surprised to find that in Skipton, contact lens wearers go mad around May/June time and he gets no end of people coming in with problems. He thinks it’s something to do with them cutting something in the fields. Bizarre though! However, he’s put me on a different make of lens and I’m a new man! I’m back to my old self so today I’m feeling confident and much happier in myself.

My prescription has changed to so I got to pick out some new glasses, a big dent on the budget which is never welcome. They have a great range of designer ones there which I was trying on and it’s really upsetting that I look like Damn Edna in EVERY SINGLE PAIR! There were great ones too, in many different styles and colours. It’s perhaps quite good that I was forced to buy some ones similar to my other ones as they were cheaper. I can’t really remember what they look like though as I don’t get to pick up them up until the weekend but they’re nice, dark framed ones. I have a feeling my eyes are worse though, so much so that when the letters that you have to read were reset to the start I was tempted to go – ‘Oh my God! I can see that one!’ at the massive letter ‘E’ that was on the screen. I hate my eyes.

On Saturday, aside form the eye trauma my Mum and my sister came to Skipton which was good as they could give me advice on which glasses to pick! We did nice things like go for dinner at Wetherspoons and the four of us (including James) went on a canal boat ride which was especially good due to the sunny weather. We got to take in fields of mini-sheep, men’s pants drying on a canal boat and a fatty in an ice-cream van. What more could you want? I think the enjoyed the day though and it was nice to just catch up with goings-on. I think my Mum might try and come and see the play when it’s on in a few weeks too.

After we saw the pair of them on to the train, me and James went to the supermarket and picked up some wine and chips and dip for the evening which was spent watching ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Joseph’ and ‘Have I Got News For You?’. I think this season of Doctor Who is the best yet. They just seem to be playing around with the formula a lot more and Martha is much better than Rose as she’s not so useless. As for Joseph, well I have to say that I really want to hit Louis in the face with something hard and I really, really don’t want Lee to win, even if he will. It’s terrible how into it I am :s Moira Stewart was on HIGNFGY, brilliant!

Sunday was good. A much needed day off doing nothing. I couldn’t be bothered to leave the house even though I think that James wanted to but I did productive stuff like hovering, sorting my papers out and putting stuff away. We also watched ‘Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest’ which was a lot better than I thought it’d be. It looked fantastic (including Davy Jones’ crew which were amazing) and the action scenes were both fun and interesting. Plus, a good dark ending too. There was a lot to like about it, even with the over-complicated non-plot. I think me and James are going to see the third one at Skipton’s Ye Olde Cinema tonight.