I’ve had a reasonably interesting week, although I’ve just figured out I spent over 10 hours on trains in the last 5 days. I fucking hate our train service. It’s unreliable, under-maintained, ridiculously expensive and you can’t smoke on platforms even though half of them are OUTSIDE.
Anyway, I spent the first half of the week complaining that the weekend went too fast and generally bitching about the fact I had to go to work. So nothing new there. On Thursday though I took a trip up to the ITN building in London to discuss copywriting for the web with some guys from Channel 4 News. It was an amazing experience and the C4 News guys I met were bright, welcoming and extremely engaging. I even got to see Krishnan Guru-Murphy sat working at his desk, although I resisted the urge to drop my professional exterior and demand a photograph for Facebook.
Friday saw another extremely frustrating train journey and a 12 hour working day, but I did manage to write a prediction for UFC 117 for one of my clients which turned out to be spot on. Speaking of UFC 117, I stayed up till 6.00am with my good friend Rob to watch it and I’m glad I did – the Anderson Silva / Chael Sonnen fight was incredible, with Silva winning by submission in the final round after being battered for 23 minutes by the challenger. It was an amazing finish and had me shouting insults at the American at the top of my voice. I really don’t like Chael Sonnen; he’s arrogant, moronic, brash and I couldn’t have dealt with seeing him be the only one to stop Anderson Silva.
Today, after getting up late, I’ve managed to finish my work for the week, feed my growing addiction to ‘Fruit Flakes’ and now I’m sat watching Manchester United beat Chelsea in the Community Shield. Or at least it’s 1-0 at the moment.
Enjoy the rest of your Sunday, if you’re anything like me you’ll spend most of it unable to shake the knowledge you’ve got to get up for work tomorrow.