I wanna be haunted by the ghost

'You got a way of walking, you got a way of talking...' - Shane McGowan & Sinead O'Connor, Haunted

I was browsing youtube yesterday and I came across that video up there. It's a film someone made for filmschool - pretty damned good don't you think? It also is sung by the Pogues, who you know I like from before.

Yesterday I was the one haunted by the ghost. Not the ghost of your precious love like in the song.

The ghost of lost youth and forgotten holidays. Even though the youth was just a year ago and the holidays were just a week ago.

At work it was as though someone took a hefty dose of discontent and circulated it in the airconditioning. The director was pissy and it filtered down from there. By 2 pm everyone had had a bollocksing. The irritation was palpable in every office. I think it had finally settled in that the vacation was over and this was real life.

Later on I was in the gym and it was all midlife crisis in action. Testosterone spill.  You could almost smell it in the air.

Poor darlings, their new year resolutions all parked outside with their inappropriately expensive shiny cars. It's always like this in January but it seems more desperate this year.

Maybe because today I'm 34! I get to join with in the midlife crisis crowd and this time I can play too!

Other birthday stuff later.