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   Circus – The latest in Britney Spears sensational albums.

Yeah okay, it’s a shameless Britney plug, but hey.. She’s redeemed herself. Well she is well on the road to redemption at least. Have you heard her new singles Circus and Womanizer? It’s classic Britney. Sticky raunchy beats coupled with unusually insightful lyrics. She has outdone herself and proved to the world that she is indeed a first-class entertainer. 

I didn’t really intend for this first blog back to be a plug for Britney, when, to be honest, it’s not the music I’m really into at present. My ‘Music and Lyrics’ soundtrack is getting played in my car by a factor of ten at present. Why do you ask? It’s an incredibly romantic movie and actually made me laugh a lot for a Hugh Grant movie. The combination of classic British wit, and sassy American dash made for an all round entertaining movie. What really appealed to me about this movie was the soundtrack. The song that the duo wrote in this movie ‘Way back into love’ is actually a very good piece of music. If you haven’t heard it, you can check it out either by buying it, or just going and doing a quick You Tube search. I could paste a link, but that would be too simple and I like to to see you do a little bit of work for good music.

Right now I am sitting at a desk in an office building that isn’t technically my own. My company has loaned me to another company while the original person they loaned to this company is off enjoying a Christmas vacation with his daughter. Consequently, I am in unfamiliar surroundings, with essentially nothing to do. There is currently 3 people in the office including myself, and my job entails watching a monitor to ensure that the backups run successfully. How much am I being billed out at for this mind-numbing task? Well.. to be honest, I am not entirely sure, but it’s quite a lot. I don’t mind the work. It has its intense moments and does keep me on my toes during peak times. I just find it very boring being here on my own essentially. 

User: I am not receiving my emails. My Blackberry is currently not allowing me to view or send emails while I am on holiday. Can you fix this please?
Me: Uhh… You’re on holidays right?
User: Yes
Me: Why do you even have that thing turned on.
User: Because I need to check my emails.
Me: But you’re on holiday?
User: Yeah, but my work doesn’t stop because I go on holiday
Me: Actually, yes it does. That is the very definition of holiday. Turn it off, and I’ll fix it when you get back from your holiday.

Currently my home life is status-quo, essentially involving copious amounts of DVD viewing, junk food eating, and hours isolated in my room watching Sky News and Face-booking. I swear Face book will be the next addiction epidemic. It is already there. I feel physically unwell if I don’t either have it open on the feeds page, or checked at least ten times a day. That cannot be healthy. Oh well, just another in the list of things I will have to discuss with my counsellor.

Did I mention I am now the proud owner of a 55 inch plasma television? And before you say it, yes I know you are all falling for your LCD televisions, however let me reiterate the reason I bought a plasma television.

• It was $1000, bought second-hand from a woman, that decided to get rid of it from her living room because it was… wait for it… too big! Too BIG? How can a television be TOO BIG? If your television is too big, you build a bigger lounge room.
• Plasma televisions have a higher contrast ratio than LCD’s
• Plasma televisions can reproduce colours closer to black than LCD’s without the washout effect caused by fluorescent tubes
• It’s 55 inches. That was really the only point I needed to raise.

That is my toy currently. And sadly I don’t get to use it nearly as much as I would like. I have been trawling the Internet trying to find  a TV cabinet big enough to either contain this monstrosity, or to sit on top of it. It’s hard to find a cabinet that will sturdily and confidently support 60 kilograms. It looks like I may have to go down to my parents with a VISA card and some time to build a cabinet of my own that will fulfil my needs. 

That will do for now. I will write another blog more regularly as I find it therapeutic. More so than the prospect of weekly counselling sessions at 75 dollars a pop. ttfn