Don't Panic!

"First, it is slightly cheaper; and secondly it has the words Don't Panic inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover."

I am, of course directly quoting from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy… wouldn't it be nice having something like this as a guide to the everyday! Especially when you are having a train wreck of a day.

I having nothing much of interest to really write about this month (if indeed you count my other blogs as interesting/ amusing/ stuff to print out and use as toilet paper (please print on recycled paper - think of the environment!)…). I have just been up to the usual work - riding - work - riding - some drawing - lots of reading - work and so on… I am sure you get the picture.

Actually though, I went to the Baltic centre for Contemporary Art last Sunday - they had some really interesting and beautiful pieces. I esp. liked Harland Millers show "Don't Let the Bastard Cheer You Up" his paintings of reworked dust jackets for Penguin books were really great, amusing and poignant I also really liked Sarah Sze's show "Tilting Planet" her sculptural installations made from disposable/ reusable found objects and from wool were intriguing, beautiful and quite thought provoking. I felt quite inspired after visiting.I think the Baltic has the nicest exhibition space. I also love that they still have the Yoshitomo Nara figure up on the main windows at the back of the building. I love going there. I would definitely recommend it: http://www.balticmill.com/

My cat Spielberg has been missing for a week. I have made up 'missing' flyers with his cute little face on and have called all the vets in the area but can not find him. I am hoping he will come back soon as I feel so worried about him. This probably has a lot to do with why I am not feeling full of the joys of summer… and yeah sure he is not the most super affectionate of cats but he has character and I am missing him.

So far this has been a bit of a weird month really, lots of the people I know have been having a really hard time of it recently - so I am hoping cheerfulness, smiles and good things will start to happen soon. I hate seeing people all depressed esp. when it is shiny, sunny and warm outside (in between thunderstorms and torrents of rain). But I am no one to talk as this month I have not been a cheerleader of all things happy in fact at points I have felt totally fed up. Hence the need for my own personalised Hitchhikers Guide… I know it is a geek need and I don't care.
Well I better be getting on with my day. But just to leave you with an amusing quote from one of my favourite films called Office Space…

Peter Gibbons: The thing is, Bob, it's not that I'm lazy, it's that I just don't care.
Bob Porter: Don't... don't care?
Peter Gibbons: It's a problem of motivation, all right? Now if I work my ass off and Initech ships a few extra units, I don't see another dime, so where's the motivation? And here's something else, Bob: I have eight different bosses right now.
Bob Slydell: I beg your pardon?
Peter Gibbons: Eight bosses.
Bob Slydell: Eight?
Peter Gibbons: Eight, Bob. So that means that when I make a mistake, I have eight different people coming by to tell me about it. That's my only real motivation is not to be hassled, that and the fear of losing my job. But you know, Bob, that will only make someone work just hard enough not to get fired.

Later!