Sunday 22/03/09

Finally a period of time I actually get to do nothing but chill out and rest. I haven’t had more than a day off since Christmas and the weekends have been full of priorities but this weekend I had literally no plans, and not much interest in doing anything. The most I did was go to the new, but really really shit, shopping centre in High, but really really shit, Wycombe to buy myself a new, and really really nice, suit. I can actually feel myself getting old.

Both mornings I wanted a lie in and nearly managed it until the sun beamed it’s way through my windows at 8am. I still don’t have curtains in my room because I am yet to measure the windows, and should be used to it after nearly 3 years here. Unfortunately I’m not able to stand the sight of the bright red insides of my eyelids for very long so I got up and played Football Manager until I got bored of it (normally after about 4 hours of tutting, gasping and displaying symptoms of schizophrenia).

The good weather didn’t really interest me; there was enough to keep me amused inside the house. I recently acquired (which may or may not have been illegally) all 6 series of One Foot In The Grave and have been slowly working my way through them, with surprising efficiency (I’m midway through series 2 after this weekend). Thankfully it’s funny enough to justify such obsessive behavoiour. I recently saw all 3 series of The IT Crowd in a matter of days. It passed the time well enough, but I can’t say I laughed more than 6 times over the course of the 18 episodes. Sometimes I seem to do things just to cross them off some sort of internal list.

When the sitcoms dry up (and they rarely do) I invariably find something on proper TV. And when I say proper TV I mean Sky Sports. I’m also subscribed to Setanta (against my better judgement) which gives me access to Arsenal TV, a channel so devoid of content even a fan so dedicated as to tattoo the club’s crest into his neck and change his name by deed poll to Arsene Wenger would have trouble keeping himself interested. So back I go, if there is no live game on, to Sky Sports News which, if there is no news of interest, allows me to gawp at their presenters for hours.

I make such inactivity seem dull and a waste of our limited time on earth but it’s impossible to be at 100% all the time. That said, if I started spending many weekends like this one it would be time to question a few things.