Treading Water or Drowning?

Its a sunny day today (yesterday we suffered the gruesome soggy grey skies of England's worst), the last few days have been crazy. We (Tim and Kat- housemates - and I) went to the Ally Pally on Saturday night for fireworks, and got there a bit later than we'd hoped for. Well, what we saw was impressive, though sadly from a distance. Trying to get out of there afterward was a complete mission and about 30000 people were all trying to exit over a bridge three people wide and surrounded by mud.

Once on the other side though, ALL the busses were rammed and so we walked the 5 miles back to Gospel Oak, where I'm living at the moment. We then through a party, but no-one turned up until 11:30 by which time we were getting quite well lubricated...someone realised at about 5:30 that it was, indeed, about 5:30 and the whole evening had gone from disaster to success. I'll post some pictures of it here soon (bloody forget to upload them on my MP3 player today!).

I'm in Fulham today, to recover some errant funds and am going to find a coffee shop, work a bit on one of my scripts and read through the Media Guardian.

I am the proverbial 'rolling stone' at the moment...with gravity pulling me in various directions. Am I drowning here already, or am I just treading water? I feel a little inert. Ah well, we are just starting this aren't we?! My booze soaked weekend has taken the wind out of me a little today, and so not everything looks upward to me...I feel a little crazy. Which is fine. I don't think that this square peg will ever slot into round holes.

On Friday night, I wrote 1400 words of a new short story that I'm going to publish here. Its a kind of therapy for me, I guess. A way to get things out and down on a page, to take stock and to turn the more painful, difficult things that I (and I'm sure most people) go through and turn it into something creative. To contribute.

Lets hope the sun stays switched on. In the words of Neil Young's slogan on the side of his converted bio-fuel car:
"Go Earth!"

Tom.