Sleepless In Suffering...

Currently way past 2am, and stayed up till past 1am just to help Iz finish her Song - "JCP Vibe"... Based on a dance remix of the Rainbow theme time and voice samples. That and also fight with ancient technology (that is our 8 year old Mac) to get it onto her BB to take to work. And that was fun with a pounding migraine and nausea, let me tell you.

Thing is also will be forced to wake up at about 5:30am, so it's not really working out very well. If I'm lucky I'll end up with more than 1 hour of sleep... If that happens to be your insane definition of luck.

I now have a pussy-cat on the pillows next to my head and his paws over shoulders, purring away when not snoring. Have also been through Twitter to find random new Follows - and mainly found out that it's currently seems to be rather broken (especially the iPhone app), and am now running out of things to keep me occupied/ send me to sleep. Will have to resort to Time Team again at this rate - but if it doesn't send me to sleep, at least I'll be entertained.

...You know, whoever invented insomnia needs to be mauled alive by The Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog {Monty Python The Holy Grail}... This is ridiculously insane - and worse of all, mind-numbingly boring.

Grass Is Greener Syndrome...

Isn't it ironic that when we're at work all we do is crave for time off to do whatever we want to do - sleep in, watch daytime TV, play XBox games, eat proper lunch in your own kitchen instead of a cardboard sandwich from Tesco... Then when you actually get given them you're bored to death within days!

Home is not so interesting when you have nothing much to do and you've done everything you wanted to do all day every day for a week, and the novelty has worn off. And when you're home alone, with no co-conspirator to keep you occupied or do anything with, it rather starts to feel like you've been kept home from school because you're ill and your friends can't come round, not even after school, because you're still infectious. It. Is. So. Boring!

As a contractor you get lulls of "between contracts" and whilst it may seem like a good idea to take advantage of it and have a "holiday", when the other half goes back to work sooner than you after said holiday because they've got a "proper job" they've got to go back to, you're left bored stiff waiting for the phone to ring and watching rubbish on 4OD and iPlayer an wanting to go back to work... Until the novelty of having a job to do wears off and you want to be on "holiday" again...

Personally, I'm taking the time to try to do some good - I'm working more on my little book (or not so little, as still working on that part...) and hoping I'll once and for all nail that synopsis that will make the imaginary gullible agents in my mind clamour for the rights to represent it within seconds of reading it... See, I'm a perfect writer with an amazingly vivid imagination!

At least what I have done so far with my time off is re-write and edit the manuscript to a more sensible size and made modifications that I think probably does make it much better - curtesy of my rather insightful partner, which was a surprising source receive such a thing given she absolutely refuses to read such works from other people!

All I need to do now is guzzle more coffee (unfortunately it's Kenko, as opposed to my favourite full-bodied Starbucks beans - unfortunately they're not bottomless never-ending bags, despite the price), convince myself I'm not really dying of boredom, and go back to writing. Which is always more interesting than trawling through hundreds of jobsites for rubbish jobs I don't particularly want to do. They always tend to come to me anyway - which works just fine for lazy-ish me...