Oct 1st 2006

And yet again in the blink of an eye another month has passed. My affections for the summer wax and wane like the moon and I have decided that Autumn is my favourite season. You know that warm feeling as the sun is lower in the sky that almost orange glow you only get in Autumn and the breeze is fresh and you feel alive as if newly awoken from hibernating the baking summer away.

We have had more flood warnings and the environmental health are distributing sandbags in my part of town (southtown) but I have yet to see any. I have even heard stories of people stealing sandbags from their neighbours! Nothing like a disaster to bring people together huh!?

Been reading: websites and stuff like that cos I have no books left but bought a couple of classics on ebay which will hopefully arrive this week. Trying to find a copy of the Divine Comedies (Dante) if anyone can point me in the right direction as I know you have to be fussy with the publishers on that one as the quality of the translation varies.

Been listening to: The Hush Sound- Like Vines and: The Academy is... Almost. Loving the variety of pace and commentary. Looking forward to seeing The Hush Sound at Brixton later this month (wow that's gone quick, only like 22 days till the P!ATD/Hush Sound gig).
Have decided that their track "out through my curtain" is a pretty accurate summary of me. Go figure.

Was shitty ill last night, pretty feverish, thought was going to have to sleep in the bathroom again at one point but made it upto bed eventually. My physics teacher Mr Marshall said that cats conserved energy (during a discussion about Newtons Laws in every day life) but my cat decided to ignore the open bathroom window on the ground floor and climb in through my first floor office window for the night. I wonder if my cat is just weird or if Marshalls theories are just flawed. Once he woke me I just couldn't get back to sleep, felt hot and nauseaous all over again. I think we were probbaly lucky and missed the worst of the storm though. I watched from my office wondow for quite some time as lightning illuminated the sky repeatedly but no matter how hard I listened there was no discernable thunder roll. The rain was heavy for all of about 10 minutes so I don't suppose anyone flooded.

tattered hearts and broken dreams
battered by reality
we're the kids bought up to be different
but thats much harder than it seems

You dreamed of big business while I dreamed of law
high hopes for us all
now we're cross country end to end
not doing dream jobs thats for sure

we don't escape through doors or windows
we escape in poetry, prose and lyrics
long ago true romantics
reborn into die hard cynics

we were going to make it together
we figured we had forever
but the years went so fast
our plans for the future left in the past
now we're grown up
now we're grown up