Wakey wakey
I currently have the concentration span of a goldfish with ADD who hasn’t slept for three days and just had his bowl spiked with something that has left him particularly disoriented. I’ve returned without even noticing it to the state of mind that actually leads you to believe that an evening watching TV, cooking, listening to music and surfing the Internet at the same time is healthy and constructive, and a more attractive option than being somewhere else with people, talking about things and being interesting and interested. It’s brain-atrophe, half-life, apathetic and depressing, but it’s just sooo easy, and the TV doesn’t care if I ignore it when I’m bored.
Morning commutes, drowning out someone else’s iPod with my iRiver, triple-shot semi-skimmed iLattes, iSandwiches at lunch or iSushi if we’re being healthy. Chocolate bar to counteract the four-o’clock crash, and a good deal of the day spent looking busy and yet achieving nothing. Wander home in a daze, wake up in Dixons, looking at something shiny with 1GB memory and gold contacts on the leads… so why the hell am I so tired when I get home? I swear they’re putting something in the water.
Norway was a shot in the arm – vitamins for the mind, time spent with a group of Cambodian kids with their eyes out on stalks at the unbelievable cleanliness, order and richness of this country the other side of the world in every way from home. I’ll come back to Norway later, for the moment I’m going for a walk in the park.
Quite Random is the blog of Nathan Nelson, a human male who lives in the UK and is not entirely sure what he's going to do when he grows up but is interested in international development, photography, secularism, technology, music and movies and other things anyone of his age would be.
