automatonrevolution

Okay…so random piece of news is that I went out with Patrick, Anita and the gang this evening (although it was really last night as its now 5.11 am…), and we went to this Tapas restaraunt called “Shaws” on Old Fleshmarket Close. Now its pretty much my limited understanding that Tapas is generally an Italian/Spanish sort of thing, so I went hunting for Chorizo and Halloumie and all the sorts of things I had last time we ate at a Tapas place. There wasn’t a huge selection of that (although I DID get the Chorizo and hot damn it was good!), because they’ed split the menu into a list of about eight things per country/region, and then picked a whole bunch from all over the world. So in with Europe there were dishes from Asia, Africa and Australia and so on, all done Tapas style.
Then the waitress came and told us that they had managed to get some unusual items for their specials menu…

So I can happily tell you that Wildebeast is like very tender, juicy steak…Crocodile is like tender chicken but flakes like fishmeat…and rattlesnake has a gamey aftertaste but apart from that is like no meat I’ve ever tasted before.

Well….I didn’t know when I would next get the chance…did I?

Pardon the pun. I couldnt resist. Warning, this is a rant.

I hate my subconscious. Its a git. It pays no attention to what the conscious mind does or does not know, or what it believes. Facts are right out the window. The subconscious deals with maybes and what-ifs and has long, convoluted storylines concerning the tiniest of events that the consciousness would dismiss as unimportant.
Its driving me nuts.
I hate the fact that in the back of my head Im worrying about things that I KNOW I dont have to be worried about. I hate that my subconscious just wont leave them alone, and keeps chewing over them like a dog with a very large bone.
Bah.
I have enough things to worry about as it is, thanks.

And I’d like to get some fecking SLEEP at some point, please!!!!

Saw this posted on Kai’s blog, thought I would do it to. For kicks.

A is for age: 27 (for another month and a half)

B is for beer of choice: Tiger Beer

C is for career right now: Office Monkey

D is for your dog’s name?: Rowan

E is for essential item you use everyday: My Bed

F is for favorite tv show at the moment: Dr Who. I dont tend to wathc tv much

G is for favorite game: World of Warcraft

H is for home town: Lanark, Scotland

I is for instruments you play: I dont, really. I used to play Piano and Violin…badly.

J is for favorite juice: Blood Orange. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

K is for whose butt you’d like to kick: George Bush…except I couldnt because that would be cruelty to a dumb animal

L is for last restaurant you ate at: East India Company in Lanark

M is for marriage: Can I skip this one please?

N is for your full name: Keith Foreman. Not very exciting. Some day soon im going to add Michael Ian to the middle…to honour my dad.

O is for overnight hospital stays: None for a very long time. When I was a kid tho…it wasnt so much overnight as over months…I had a lot of things wrong with me as a kid.

P is for people you were with today: So far…Akira, my flatmate

Q is for quote: “Despite the wisdom of defeat, I bare my heart for all to see…and the wonders have seen.” - VNV Nation

R is for biggest regret: Not doing as well at Uni as I could have.

S is for status: ….Single….

T is for time you woke up today: I woke up 5 times today. Which one? My sleep pattern is a bit messy at present

V is for vegetable you love: I’ll have you know I have a platonic relationship with vegetables

W is for worst habit: Being a lazy git

X is for x-rays you’ve had: I dont remember any…but im sure ive had a few when i was a kid

Y is for yummy food you ate today: Green & Blacks Chocolate with Butterscotch.

Z is for zodiac sign: Virgo

So…another 5am…another sleepless night. What fun. What rapture.
Annoyingly enough the list of things to do in this situation is smaller than it seems, because most of the things you can think of are “daytime” activities. Sleep, of course, is out of the question, because if you could sleep then you wouldn’t be deliberating over what to do in the first place.
Reading a book is out at the moment, because I’m nearly finished the one I’m reading and I’d only be getting settled into “reading mode” when I run out of book. And Anyway the subject matter is pretty dark and not the sort of thing I want to be reading in the wee hours of the morning.
Playing World of Warcraft is also out, because the servers are down for their weekly maintenance just now, and anyway WoW is definately a “daytime” thing, even for me.
Watch a movie? Ah, but that then leads to the question of what to watch…I’ve rented Syriana, but that seems like a bit heavy going for 5am…

And of course, while you’re agonising about “what to do”, your mind swings round once more to all the things that are keeping you awake in the first place. At which point theres only one thing to do…

Write a blog post. Ho Hum.