The start of something is always the most difficult part for me, getting ready for it and the anxiety associated with activity; that’s not a typing error, everything gets me in a state of mega Woody Alleness. I genuinely get all sweaty about doing anything new, it doesn’t even have the decency to be the sexy glistening sort but more a full on flop sweat; so when I am faced with a MEETING (cue Foley artist thunder and Lighting technician switching the lights off and on) I stay up and smoke cigarettes . Granted not the best idea but almost unavoidable I’m afraid, having tried many methods of stress management, most including booze or drugs I have whittled down all the available options and quite by accident I find myself with my own coping mechanisms, which all revolve around distracting myself till I am doing the activity, in this case a meeting (I have a limited budget for this blog; do you know how much imaginary Foley and Lighting crew are when they are union? With the state of this economy you can’t go none union sends the wrong message).
I know what you’re thinking, but where would I get a freeze ray at such short notice and more to the point I hate the cold. Oh? Are you sure? You weren’t thinking that… Oh OK. I hope we can just move on and leave this ugliness behind us.
There; nice new paragraph to get away from all that business. It may seem a sort of empty headed idea trying to distract oneself, and raises more questions than it answers, but it’s simple really; if you are not inclined to deep existential thought and avoid the pressing metaphysical components. You simply don’t have to go to the meeting till after you have watched TV and had a shower; it’s like a treat for time about to be served. I really have tried everything; I mediate daily and go for long walks listen to BBC Radio Four which I think is the auditory equivalent of 4 Diazepam, but stress is a part of me as much as this lump is on my back which I don’t think was there yesterday and I am pretty sure if it was there yesterday it has changed colour twice.
I am an easy going guy really; I have affected an air of arrogance that can only come from being so universally disliked at high school. I have goals and I strive to achieve them but try to get me to do something new and I am sweaty tired idiot. So there is not a moral to this one really. Oh I suppose support imaginary unions in this time of fantasy bust.