My good fortune

Today has been quite a balanced day in terms of karma I think.
Firstly, the tram took about ten minutes to arrive and they usually come past once every 3 minutes. 1-0 to Karma. When one finally arrives, it is packed full with suits. I cram myself in next to a particularly good looking suit, and a really stinky man. Touche. 2-1 to Karma.
Then the stupid bastard tram breaks down at G-Mex. I could have walked there for crying out loud. 3-1 to Karma. As I finally make it to St. Peters Square a tram comes rolling past me. Karma is winning at this point with 4 to my measly 1. I know this is Karma because I don't pay for the tram, ever. So it's getting it's own back on me.

I get to work and it's really quiet so I get to sit in the back and do some computer work which I'm more than happy to do as it means I can rest my knee as it hurts. Whilst I'm in the back I'm allowed to answer my phone. So when it rings, I pick it up and get invited to an interview for a marketing job. 4-2 Karma. In your face!! At about 4pm my knee is hurting a lot and making walking/sitting/standing uncomfortable so my manager lets me go early to go to NHS drop in. 4-3!! Then, I'm told I've got inflammation of the knee joint. Gutted. Karma smacks one into the back of the net. 5-3. I have to take ibruprofen for 2 weeks. Oh well, I can live with that. Karma stumbles before it scores again.

Whilst buying my ibruprofen, I get a call from another company, offering me an interview. Whilst on the phone though, Karma cuts me off, but the company calls back and all is sorted. So, 5-4 it is. But only just.

After this, I go to H&M and pick up 3 items. Two priced at £8 and one at £5. I go to pay and the cashier forgets to charge me for one of the £8 items so the total comes to £13 instead of £21. Bargain. 5-5. She shoots, she scores!

So although me and Karma have been battling it out today, we've finished on an even score and had fun doing it. Life wouldn't be interesting without the ups and downs now would it?

Transformers: robots in disguise

I haven't had the internet in my flat for a whole week. How bad is that? Very bad. It's quite upsetting in fact. The internet is a huge part of my life, I use it for banking, job-hunting, shopping, blogging and the other usual crap. So to be without it for a week was a little bit of a shock to my system but it did make me look at my life in a different light.

My parents first got the internet (dial up!!!) when I was 12. Now, when I was 12, I wasn't really that into computers and the delights of blogging, youtube and facebook had yet to be created. I tried a few chatrooms but found them to be full of perverts. So I went outside to play with my real friends. And I certainly never said "lol" outside of a chatroom. Rewind to when I was 10. My mum let me borrow her mobile phone. I sent text messages to my best friend at the time who lived next door. That's it. Now I can't live without it and not having the internet was really tough. I can't believe how depressing that is. Now, I sometimes (but rarely) say "lol" in my text messages and I discuss facebook/blogging/myspace etc like they are people in my life. Despite realising that my life has perhaps too much technology in it, I still couldn't wait to get on the internet when it eventually began working. I checked my e-mail (nothing interesting), my bank (I'm still poor) and facebook (Yes I am drunk on nearly all of the pictures). But then I realised I didn't have a lot else to do on there so I went back to reading my book. It's not that I need the internet. It's just that, well, I like it being there.

So anyway, it was our graduation ball last Thursday (31st May) and it was incredible. Everyone looked beautiful and the wine was flowing (maybe that's why I thought everyone looked so good). To be honest, I don't remember much of the night but I'm pretty sure I had a lot of fun.

I also went to see the new Pirates of the Caribbean film. Disappointing quite frankly. A little long winded and there were far too many different story lines. I do always enjoy going to the cinema though, I just wish it had been a better film instead. Speaking of which, Die Hard 4 is out soon. And I am in love with Bruce Willis. I'm not really into celeb spotting and catching up on the latest celebrity gossip but if I saw Bruce Willis I would quite possibly drop dead. Either that or jump his bones. Yes, I know, he's old. But he has sex appeal like no other man.
After Die Hard, Transformers will be coming out. And I truly cannot wait for that. In fact, I'm a little bit giddy.