meh
i was charged 75 quid today for direct debits that were returned due to lack of funds. they charged me 75 quid because i couldnt afford to pay the original items - 25 quid per item for 3 items. those items totalled 5 pounds. if they had let them go through i would be over limit by under a tenner. instead i am overlimit by around 90 pounds, incurring charges of 5 pounds a day.
i tried to pawn my guitars, they wouldnt take any of them because 'we had a couple in like these and they didnt sell for months'. they wouldnt accept my xbox either. i have nothing to sell that can be sold, other than my 20 strong dvd collection which would probably get me 40 quid tops.
and i cant afford the pills i require to kill myself. sorry state of affairs.
paydays about 3 weeks away.
Day Off
The one big problem with working for a living, as I see it, is that I only get 2 free days to myself each week. Which, to be fair, is irritating; it's one of those things where you have to pressure yourself into getting things done on those days, or just decide to rest for the day. Either way, if you've wasted the day then you're fucked for the rest of the week. I need a good day off - I get Mondays and Fridays off currently, which means that I only get one day off between working days twice a week. Have to make it count even more.
So today. I had a lie in. I'm still not sure where I stand on the whole lie-in issue. Yeah, they're awesome and you can't have them everyday, but when I wake up at 12noon I wonder what I could have done in the four or so hours prior had I not been sleeping.
Got up, had a bit of pizza from last night's takeaway (sausage, pepperoni, tuna, chicken and bacon - fuck me that was good), cancelled one of my mobile contracts, checked my bank balance, added some more things to my bittorrent download list (in the past day or so I've downloaded albums by The Knife, Kate Bush, The Proclaimers, Arcade Fire and Green Day, as well as the soundtrack to the obliteratingly great 28 Days Later) - including the Oasis albums I've not yet got (except the last one, because Lyla aside it's a big pile of shite), more Kate Bush, The Sounds and some others I forget. I'm also downloading Happy Feet, cause we have it on in the background at work and it looks awesome. I've left my PC running and come out to uni; I needed some fags, some Diet Coke and some lighter fluid.
Reminded myself that eBay exists, and am using it to buy too-cheap-to-be-true Zippos and sell some of my stuff, including a drawing I did based on Fear Of Music... check the diary entry below to see it and bid on it. I've decided that any art I sell on there is going to be as part of a charity auction, with at least 10% going to
Action For M.E., a charity supporting sufferers of CFS, ME and fibromyalgia. My mum has ME, she's been a sufferer for a number of years now. There's no cure, it's incredibly debilitating and in all but a few cases the government do not recognise it as a disability, leaving sufferers with the fate of having to hold down a full time job - something that can just exacerbate the illness and leave the sufferer exhausted and in pain. You wouldn't get a wheelchair user to run the 400 metres, would you?
Anyway, all art sales (and I'm hoping to do a few more after this one, depending on whether or not it actually sells) will be contributing to this charity. It needs all the help it can get.
So, it's the easter holidays. Frigging awesome. I'm stuck in Worcester - my patronising twat of a manager wouldn't give me the weekend off to go back to Manchester for Bryan's birthday, which hurts a bit. I've never missed Bryan's birthday. I'm just going to spend the holidays between work and the uni library doing commissions and, yes, comics. I've relaunched TraGic, starting with a new series. It's my way of putting a line through it all. So it is, in effect, a brand new comic. Course, people would be able to look at the previous series... if I could make the site work. I love the look of the new site, but I'll be rogered if I can get the thing to work properly. Might have to redo it from scratch. We'll see I suppose. I knocked out the new site between the hours of 7 and 10 last night, so it's not as though I poured my heart and soul into it. I suppose I'll save all that for the strips themselves.
Which reminds me, I also need to do some comics for The Voice. It's going to be the last issue with Lora as editor, and so I'm going to make an extra special effort. One of the strips has already been written, by a human who would rather remain anonymous due to its satirical, anti-student-union-president stance. I'm going to aim for 4 strips this issue, and I'm also going to get an article written I think. Not done that before. Not for this paper at least.
Anyway. While I'm thinking about that, I might just go and do it. Keep rocking, folks. Don't do drugs.
eBay art sale!
Hey there folks.
Just thought I’d let you fine people know that I’ve put a piece of original art on eBay.
I’m not sure if any of you’d be interested… but I’m sure your friends and their friends would be if you let them know... what d’you reckon?
It’s not to everyone’s tastes I realise, but I drew it the other day and didn’t want to see it going to waste. It’s A4 size, signed (because I’m incredibly pretentious), black ink on white card. Bidding starts at a fiver, and if you live near me I will of course waive the postage costs. 10% of the proceeds go directly to Action For M.E., a charity supporting those with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, fibromyalgia and M.E.; it’s a worthy cause and if you don’t bid for any other reason, go for that one.
The remaining 90% goes to the Cos Ryan Needs Food Fund.
Bid it
here.
