Swiftly Approach The Ides Of March...What Have You?

I should really start thinking about recommending some of these albums I've been listening to. Then again it trouble enough writing tiny 'reviews' for the ones I buy from iTunes. So very briefly I recommend the following, very catchy.

Alice Cooper - Love It To Death
Dio - The Last In Line
Iced Earth - Night Of The Stormrider
Mötley Crüe - Too Fast For Love
Rolling Stones - Let It Bleed

I'll be buying those ones soon enough, might take a while actually. I've got a system set up right now where I'm only focusing on 20 musicians, that's why the same artists keep popping up on my receipt. It's not a bad system, I go over each album, decide which I like and which I don't so much. In the end I'm left with a collection of albums that I'm very fond of. But I am anxious to get on to a few other bands.

I don't like my new Sarina Russo Representative, actually got a bad vibe off them when I met them for the first time last week. The vibe was 'I don't really care about you.' Got that same vibe yesterday when I actually went up there for my off peak session. In my agreement to Sarina Russo I'm meant to go there every Tuesday from 10am-midday. I've actually been supposed to do that for three months, but as I said before I was waiting till March to look for real work. I remember one of my former Representatives spent an entire morning once with someone perfecting their resume and cover letter. That seemed like a perfect place for me to start.

When the doors of the elevator opened someone emerged, it was my rep, 'perfect timing' I though. Said they'd be back in ten. I bide my time on the computer before I noticed them come back in, I went to the receptionist and asked to see them, message relayed 'just busy, please wait about 15'. That's fine, I'm very good at waiting and understand how busy the environment is at Sarina Russo, besides I didn't have an appointment, well except that my off-peak session is technically a two hour appointment. A few minutes later they came out and sat with me, a clear sign that they wanted briefness out of this interruption. They looked over my resume for a minute before saying you could put an extra paragraph here. Fine, it's better than nothing.

I don't know when things started going wrong over there, I've become accustomed to a certain level of personal involvement from everyone I've worked with. No weening period. This is going to be very slow... I'll put in that paragraph today and put together a list of companies I'd like to work at. De ja vu.

Tomorrow I've got an appointment with Red Cross to remove some of my blood. I actually get to go to one of those blood mobiles you see round the place, this one's in Indooroopilly. Red Cross make a big deal about the fact that not many people donate blood, but they seem to be unable to handle the numbers they do have. I could have given blood again over a week ago, but every where has been booked up. That being said, I still think it a good idea for everyone to get out and give it a go. Takes about half an hour every three months, you get a free lunch plus the knowledge that you've saved two lives. Seems fair to me.

We've got an election coming up in less than two weeks, I've checked on the candidates in my area at http://www.ecq.qld.gov.au/asp/index.html. The profiles on the site leave a lot to the imagination, but if you ever wanted to know Ronan Lee's mobile number now is your chance. I think I'm going to vote for the guy, not out of nostalgia, not because he was the guy that handed me my high school diploma. But because I like the idea of someone with major party opinions having green ideals. It's a healthy mix. That and my idea of a working democracy involves more than just two parties with back and forth banter. Not expecting great deals of change out of this election, probably a good thing.

Fitness really is an odd thing isn't it... Well, fitness itself is a guaranteed thing, you do it and you will get fitter and that is the most important part of exercise, whether you can climb a flight of stairs without wheezing, or run for the train without clutching at your heart. Weight loss on the other hand fluctuates and is unpredictable. I've actually put on a little weight in the last week and I wonder if it's because I've moved up to three square meals and my body's not used to that level of digestion or if it's new muscle. Of course there's a wicked third option that I just got unhealthier somehow... Got to keep reminding myself that it's a slow process, can't combat a decade of unhealthiness with two and half months of the opposite and expect major results. Some times I do with it worked that way though, then again that would mean it would go faster the other way round too...urgh.

Things ARE good at the moment, that's an important point to remember. I've got it sweet right now, it can only get sweeter really, well as far as goals go. But the Ides of March steadily approaches, I'll be keeping a glaring eye upon it, no fear. Fare thee well...

Andy Scott