*le sigh*
5:32 am Saturday, 3 January, 2009
Okay I’m struggling. This is my fourth fifth sixth seventh eighth effort at this post.
I give up.
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All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!
10:56 pm Saturday, 20 December, 2008
Okay so here we go. I’m, for the record, absolutely fine!!
It is just past 8pm on Saturday night. It is my last night in Buenos Aires. I have loved my time here, it’s an awesome city. It’s one of the best places I have been to and I say that having been mugged at knife point last night! I’M FINE. Lets just get that clear straight away, I’M FINE!
There were a couple of drinks and the lads were going clubbing which I’m really not interested in so I figured I’d just head back to the hostel. Now I knew where I was and I knew where I was going. The previous night I’d been in a bar about 4 doors away and had walked home. Seen as I was the only one going back I thought I’d just grab a cab. So I walked to the corner where I knew I’d get a cab and before I even realised what was going on, there was a guy behind me and a guy in front of me and a knife. So I lost my wallet and my camera (my backup camera and photos had been all backed up earlier that day!). The wallet had somewhere between 10 and 30 sterling in it so no real great loss. It did however have my credit cards which I really really really fucking need. As armed robbers go they weren’t too bad, they asked if my passport or ID was in my wallet and did I need it back (it wasn’t) and then they ran off - fuckers.
So I eventually got back to the hostel and hit my emergency fund in the room and got very drunk back here…some of you may have seen postings on t’internet. The lost post here was perhaps a teeny bit of a rant and I suspect it’s a good thing that the internet ate it!
Anyways this morning I reported it all (purely for insurance reasons) and I cancelled my cards. A phone call to the parents and then a call to Western Union means that I don’t have to worry about cash so much for the next couple of weeks and I should be able to get a replacement card sent to the US (Patrick, I’ll be borrowing your address for this!). So all in all it’s not been too bad really. Maybe it hasn’t sunk in but it’s happened towards the end of the trip as I’ve just been starting to wind down. The money is no great loss and there was nothing irreplaceable in the wallet and so it could have been worse. It does mean that I’ll be even more of a nuisance than usual to my parents for the next few weeks but I think they are use to it at this stage.
So that’s my tale of woe and I can sit here and still tell you that I really love this city. When I went to Western Union to collect some cash this afternoon I walked through an area I hadn’t been to before and found more squares and the Parliament which is a lovely building and despite worrying about trying to collect cash and making sure I had all the documents I needed, I found time to stop and have a quick wander.
So I can’t decide if I was unlucky or stupid (had I become too complacent?) or both but in the grand scheme of things, ya know I’m fine and its one time that I’m glad the girls were gone!
I was about to type ‘So that’s where I am now’ but I see that I’m really overusing that tic of mine tonight and I won’t. BA doesn’t really take off night life wise until way later on. My plan is to perhaps avoid a lot of drinks and just take a wander to somewhere for a bite to eat, a couple of drinks and then to bed. I leave at 11 in the morning to the airport and then I fly to Santiago and I’m staying at the same hostel I stayed at before and I’m just going to hopefully chill for a day or two before moving on!
20.45 Buenos Aires Saturday December 20th
We were halfway there when the rain came down
8:59 am Saturday, 27 September, 2008
Okay lets see how this goes.
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I’ve got nothing to do, but hang around and get screwed up on you
1:04 pm Thursday, 25 September, 2008
According to my sister, she and my mother have dismissed what I write here as (and I quote) drunken ramblings for the most part. Now I shall not try in anyway to convince you that I’ve written every word here sober, that would be a lie. But still, it’s nice to have so much just dismissed out of hand.
This is, I think, yet another reason to kill off this blog and take it back to something private where I can actually try and work out issues without having to worry about the consequences of readers.
Working with this, I give you a pretty significant posting. I wrote this going on a month ago when I was in Melbourne. I wasn’t sober when I started tpying but I was by no means drunk. I’ve been wary of posting this and I’m still not convinced. I don’t think I should hit publish but I’ve given up. This is unedited.
A month ago(ish)
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and fight the break of dawn.
1:27 pm Wednesday, 24 September, 2008
Shit.
It’s coming to that point where I need to think about what I’m doing and perhaps more importantly how I’m going to afford to live. I guess I need a job (duh!) and I reasonably suspect it will be in London. I had been thinking Dublin for a little while but that would still entail me paying close on 200 a month for storage which is a good old chunk of rent if I end up in London and so London makes more sense.
Funding issues. Hmm well I have a whole shitload of tax due back to me and I have some money in the bank..okay this last part is a lie…. it’ll go to getting me to Machu Picchu (maybe if I don’t eat for a month or so…) and then what? Fuck, I hate money. Should I stop now and give up on the centre piece (note to self, next time make the centre piece earlier on)? The correct answer to this is yes but hello this is me!
Fuck.
I have had a most excellent evening having catchup drinks with Gareth. He left London and the A*L crew back in 2006 and so it’s been good to sit down and talk about stuff since then. We met in J.J. Murphey’s (his choice!) and so there were a few pints of Murphys. T’was good.
Today I saw the Parliament and the National Archives showcase of the Treaty of Waitangi which is most excellent and I strongly urge anyone who gets to Wellington to have a look, and then I took the cable car up to the viewpoints and Botanic Gardens. Wellington is the least Capital Capital city I’ve ever been to. It must be noted that the girls here really do like their short skirts ( I do too ), I’m sat at the window watching the street and there is so much flesh passing by.
Finally if I know you and I have you address you have more then likely had a card sent from NZ by now. I kinda feel like I should start a spreadsheet so I remember who I have sent something to but I guess the worst is that you get two cards…
Second finally. Dear ALLTV, I hate you all and shall be avoiding the entire forum from now till ohh January.
Third finally. WELL FUCKING DONE LONDON. Boris is a cunt.
1:28 pm Monday, 24 December, 2007
It never once occurred to me that because I have not been paid for the month of December and that the company are holding my payment in lieu until all the documents are returned that there would be no money in my account for my normal end of month payments.
I’m sure this can’t be right, I’m sure they can’t withhold my pay like that.
Jesus fucking h christ. That’s just what I need. So now, I have no idea when I get any money and I’m fairly sure I’m not going to be able to transfer money from my already shrunk backup account to pay any of these in time.
Just what I need.