Trish gets back tomorrow after a week of snowboarding somewhere in France. So I’ve got tomorrow morning to square everything up and make it look like I can look after myself. I mean I obviously can look after myself, just not always in the way that Trish expects I should. That girl has got high standards.
I’ve watered most of the plants, apart from the one I hate. I’ve washed some things- I can’t remember what but they’re clean. The vegetable man called at at a time that only someone who grows and sells vegetables for a living could consider reasonable. So I ignored that. I’ve smoked and drunk at a normal rate. The fish are swimming. And here I am half drunk writing on my website, checking all the spelling.
I’ve been watching slightly more TV than normal and simultaneously reading a really good essay about watching TV. Celebrity Big Brother is on telly at the moment which is the type of TV I hate the most but is also undeniably compulsive viewing. I would be surprised if there wasn’t a version of it in America, but I’m not very up on TV so I don’t know. But the premise is simple- you lock a bunch of desperate celebrities (I don’t know what that word means anymore (I don’t know if I ever did)) in a house together- you stress them out in various ways (they’re already stressed- they’re desperate)- hilarity ensues, or not as the case may be; in any case, something (badly) representing the gamut of human emotion ensues- it’s all televised - we, the public, get to vote for who stays in and who doesn’t- someone ‘wins’- everyone talks about it- and some people probably make a lot of money. That’s entertainment. Or at least, it’s a form of entertainment. Like snake charming, or badger baiting, or going out at the weekend and getting into a fight. And in some ways it operates in the same sort of way. It’s not the sort of thing that you would do… it’s actually a good example of exactly the type of thing you would go out of your way not to do. But if someone else is going to do it then you’re going to be the first to get a good ringside seat where you can watch the mayhem unfold. It’s on at the moment and I’m going to watch it even if nothing much is happening.