Today I went to the Job Centre. Yes, yes I’m signing on, and I’m sorry! I’m sorry to all of you lovely taxpayers who are currently funding my life, but I promise it won’t be for long, and also, I feel like I’m claiming all the tax back that I used to pay. Which is nice for me! So there. (Honestly, despite being an ex-student I have done a day’s work in my life... in fact more than a day, many, many days). It’s so depressing, walking into the job centre as the only one not sporting attractive leisure wear. And the people who work there look at me like ‘oh so you’ve got a DEGREE and yet still, you’re on jobseekers’. They even give me a tiny pen to sign all the bits of paper as if to say ‘you do not deserve a big pen, you don’t have a job and are therefore less of a person’. I hate it. And I am seeking a job, desperately, but it’s not my fault that no-one’s smart enough to give me one. Or perhaps I’m just saying that to placate the department for work and pensions? Hehe, just kidding guys, relax.
However, I have had a glorious day. It’s sunny and I got to wear a nice dress and a scarf in my hair. Also I saw my lovely Jenny and her beautiful little girl Evie. I trundled over to her Grandma’s house and we played and chatted. I love Jenny’s grandma’s house as Jenny and I spent so much time there when we were younger. Her grandma would record really old horror films for us to watch and cook us roast chicken and mash and gravy. I think the old horror films have contributed to my slight obsession with serial killers and are probably the reason I want to be a criminal psychologist. So thank you Jenny’s grandma, for deciding my career, and also for not caring if we watched 18 rated movies when we were 10. Also Evie has just learned how to kiss, it’s probably the sweetest thing in the world.
Films are great aren’t they? At school I had this amazing drama teacher called Joel, he took me and a few other friends under his wing and occasionally after school he would show us some of his favourite old movies- mainly Hitchcock films. We’d watch them in the huge black-walled drama studios in the dark and afterwards he’d tell us some little facts about the film. After watching Rear Window, he said that the kiss between Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly is the most beautiful ever filmed. We also watched The Birds, on a really grey Derby-day, when we wandered outside seemingly hundreds of crows had gathered on the power lines on the school grounds, in the bleak light (I just typed ‘beak’ then! I had to chuckle) it was really quite frightening! I haven’t seen any life changing or wonderful films for a while, please send any suggestions on a post card. Thank you.
I’ve now got to the stage of looking around my bedroom for things to talk about, so to save me boring you with details of the various curios on my desk or the funny way my cat is sleeping I shall say good bye!
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