I was so incensed at work on sunday that i promised to write tthe MD an email. My colleagues laughed in my face and said that's what i said the last time when i was pissed of about our working conditions. I actually emailed him a well-thoughtout and constructive criticism(suggesting solutions as well) to which he gratefully replied thanking me to "refreshin feedback that is constructive". oh, they'll also give me a £25 bonus next week just to show their appreciation. I think i'll buy a new pair of shoes...maybe pay off my credit card. I dont know but it was nice that they listened.
Mind you i didnt hold back but it wasn't an emotional rant either although i did say I am fidning the situation untenable(read: im about to quit!! )

Looks like we underrate the big honchos sometimes

I thought cold showers were reserved for really horny people who could not unleash their pent-up passion and had to resort to slashing it dead, fast and furiously with cold water. I wasn't sexually frustarted this morning, i just had to curb my rage.

You see, my wanker of a roommate has been taking advantage of me: never topping up electricity, has the heating on all day until he leaves and the turns it back on in the middle of the night when he returns and he doesn't buy cleaning products or sodding toilet roll!. I have not actually seen him in more than a week now. I just hear him coming in or going to the bathroom.

I have been adviced to stand my ground and not do everything. I mean I clean the bathroom, the toilet the dishes,the kicthen but more for myself than him because i can't imagine using a grotty toilet. I would be stupidly spiting myself. As it turned out, electricity was running low last night. I have taken to recording in a diary when i top up and by how much. he is one of those who will use up all the credit and go to the emergency credit instead of doing the right thing without incurring penalities. I am pretty convinced he's topped up just once since i moved in 4months ago.

Anyway, i was absent-mindedly watching telly, with my little fan heater on the go and reading a bit last night when lo and behold, everything just went dark!! I stupidly turned the light on and off but i just knew my luck had run out. So i went to the electricity meter to try and look for a switch to kick the emergency on(forgeting that it was probably the emergency we were using) and i couldnt work it out. I was using my mobile as a torch but since it was around 11pm, i just thought: sod it, i'll go to bed. he came in a few minutes later. I heard him lunge for the light switch in the hallway and...there was no light. It was all I could do to stifle a giggle. Then I heard him stumbling towards the bathroom. I guess he was pretty pissed or pisssed off...probably both.

I blissfully fell asleep until I realised when I woke that i wont have my breakfast. No tea or coffee, no toast,because there is no fucking electricity. I think i was very optimistic turning the shower on and hoping against hope that the water would warm up eventually. I had to grin and bear it. My consolation is that, he won't be able to use his expensive laptop for long uncharged. He can't turn on the gas. He won't have his green tea that's especially imported from China, if one of his pretty boyfriends come in he wont be able to give them mint tea. So he has got two choices. open the tight fist and pay up or there'll be a stand off!!

As it is now, I am meeting a couple of friends later today. One is having a crisis with an army boyfriend who's unceremoniously dumped her. She wants explanations. He says he just doesn't want a serious relationship(Iraq has fucked him up). Reminded me of my thing with deciever. poor thing, she just needs time. The other one, her 19 year old italian boy friend is staying with his mommy in Italy. She is gutted. she is 30. so i shall be the voice of reason tonight and make them laugh with my tales of darkness and cold showers.

By the way, my roomie has a false tooth. I say that because i saw a pink gummy thingy on the basin this morning with a fake tooth on the one side. Who would've thought. He must've dumped it in the dark or it fell out. Now that is justice. I shall never look at him the same way. i feel a cold war coming on and i shall be sure to drape myself in fleece jackets. I don't know how much i can hold out though. I left him money for the broadband connection since he is sharing with me. If he has half a brain he'll use that to buy himself a hot shower. I just don't see him standing under cold water somehow