Interview With A Jackass

I just drank THE nicest mouthful of Yorkshire Tea I’ve ever had. It honestly warmed every bone in my body. Maybe I’m just appreciating it more because I haven’t had a half decent cuppa in far too long. At home I have been surviving on PG Tips (I bought about five boxes when it was half-price) and now I’ve started work again (after a great deal of confusion and mixed-up-dates) and I discovered an enormous box of Yorkshire Tea-bags in the kitchen cupboard. I am very happy. Now, I know I’m meant to be taking a ‘break’ from work (in the couple of months sense) to study but now I’ve started again and even though it’s only the first day, I think I’m really going to enjoy it. I will no longer complain about work experience children and fat employees who break chairs yet don’t pull their substantial weight.

Anyway, I have tomorrow off! Can you believe that? So I guess fulltime work starts properly on Monday and today is just sitting around and seeing how good my stationary is (the hole puncher is out of this world.)

When I sat down to write this post, I had intended to write about my favourite children’s authors. (I’ve been thinking that my blog will be mostly to do with music and writing from now on; enough of the boring personal stuff. ) But now I’ve just talked for a paragraph or two about drinking tea and working…  work makes me tired, tea keeps me awake but whatever, is this even making sense?! I didn’t get much sleep last night and my dad came back from holiday and I was SO pleased to see him. But now the excitement/tiredness of yesterday is over and I really need to find a point to this post before it turns out to be crappy personal stuff again. OK… I think I’ll write about the children’s authors sometime in the near future (when I have the time and patience to actually write something GOOD) but for now I want to talk about the news. LOL. Feel free to navigate away from this page.

I saw this interview on Sky News a couple of lunchtimes ago and there was this disgraced American who was a Lord in Britain or something. He owned the Daily Telegraph but then he got sent to prison which he wasn’t too happy about and he did THE most surreal interview ever. It was with Adam Boulton and the guy (Conrad Black) actually said to him, “Stop being a jackass.” I was stunned. It was hilarious. He just carried on insulting people and things and he really didn’t give a crap. It was hilarious. I’ll post the video below if you want to watch it. :) (You really should watch it!)

Another news story that caught my eye (and made me kind of sad) was that President Assad (Syrian dude) had agreed to a ceasefire over the Muslim festival of Eid and that the majority of the opposition groups also agreed to cease fire. This made me really sad. Both sides have just been killing each other and now they stop to celebrate Eid? Obviously I’m happy that they’ve stopped fighting but it just made me think… what’s the point in having a celebration when families are torn apart and struggling? People will have lost their fathers and brothers and they’re expected to be happy about Eid? And then once the festivities are over, once everyone’s done celebrating, are they just going to pick up their guns again and start shooting each other? It’s like that German/Allies Christmas football match where they got out of the trenches, played a match and the next day started fighting all over again. It’s sad, really. And I wish that both sides would see how pointless all the bloodshed really is. Why can’t people sit down and talk?