Tim Morris

I’ve completly run out of money, i’m down £36 quid in the bank, and i’m not entirely sure whether i’m gonna be charged for being overdrawn. Since I didn’t think about it at the time. My last job, lifeguarding for childrens swimming, ended because my license ran out, and i can not be arsed to re do the whole thing. Plus sitting down and staring at things for many hours in temperatures of over 30 degrees (celsius) has lost its appeal.

Even without money i still manage to get by, i’ve borrowed way to much off my mum, and my Dad is shit, so doesn’t give me anything. I managed to wrangle £20 off a friend by giving him £23 worth of euros. I still have a £5 book voucher that no one will exchange for hard cash. So i had to get a job.

I put togther my first ever CV, which looked kinda silly with stuff like Newspaper Boy on it, but it’ll have to do. I even did one of those little profile things, where you basically have to lie about yourself in the third person, writing stuff like, “A dedicated and good humoured individual”, i wish i could just tell the truth, “A deciveing individual, who will probably steal the office supplies, be rude to customers with money to spend, but will spend hours talking to customers who are broke”. Anyway, so far i’ve appllied to a bunch of shitty shops, such as Virgin Megastores. Working there would be hell on earth, as i hate pretty much all the music they sell there. I applied to waterstones, they have a little section with a few essay questions, asking you why you think waterstones is great. I basically said I admired their dedication to literature, and bookselling. Again, if i was being honest i would rant about how they put every decent bookshop out of business, and are probably partly responsible for the fact that the only books most people have read are harry potter and the Da Vinci Code.

There are some slacker looking jobs as well, including one at a guiatr job that i have never seen anyone buy anything in, and also at the university bookshop, which looks empty most of the time. I would love either one, but i reckon i’d be perfect for the univeristy one.

Anyway, i haven’t heard anything yet, which isn’t good. But the search continues. Of course if some rich benefactor wants to hire me to do very little work, such as blogging or just sleeping. Then i’m the perfect candidate.

This thing has been cross posted at 43things.com and 3am in Leicester

I always get the urge to ‘Rip it up and Start Again’, i suppose i just always need a million projects to work on. So pretty much the day after my exams finished, i decided to create some new stress. I dismantled all the furniture in my room and made plans to build loads of shelves in my room. I’ve ammassed loads of books recently, i seem to buy/find/steal about 20 a month, I read loads, i love it. Just the other week i got a parcel from Little Type containing Dr Franks new book “King Dork”. And the new Aaron Cometbus mini-novel “I wish there was something to quit”. Anyway, thats just an example, they are both great books. Buy em.

So anyway, my room, so far my progress is slow, i get distracted easily. I have cleaned the mould off most of the walls. My house has a damp problem, so i kinda just have to live with it, not having enough money to fix it all up and everything. Now i just need to fins some wood to make the bookshelves out of. I’m hoping i’ll just run into about eight 2 metre lengths of decent wood to use. but i suppose i’ll just have to buy some. Anyway, its kinda fun work, because i keep unearthing things I had forgotten about, like train tickets to weird places, or signs stolen off posh golf courses.

But yeah, i’ll hopefully have it all finished before i go to south africa in a few weeks (more on that later). Then i can sit in my newly furnished and uncluttered room (yeah right) reading books in the wicker chair that i swear is about 50 years old.

cross posted to 43thing.com and http://3amleicester.blogspot.com (delete as applicable)

It Should be everyones dream to Travel the world, I’ve already been to four of them.

I’ve been to Europe, obviously, because i live there, but i have visitited practically every central european country with the exception of Holland, and probably just one or two others.

I’ve been to North America, I did that when i was five. I went to Canada, i would love to go again, and i plan to Greyhound it across the US next year.

I’ve been to Asia. When i was two i went to Thailand and Singapore. But Now i’m older, I would love to do it for myself, rather than as a dribbling crying baby.

I’ve been to Australisia, by going to australia, again this was when i was two. New Zealand would be an ideal destination for me.

So that just leaves South America and Africa. And By this time next year i will have done them both. This time next month i’ll be in south africa.

Bring on Gap Year.