500!

Huzzah! This is my 500th post! 500! I've been keeping this blog for FIVE YEARS. That's 100 posts per year. Or an average of 1.9 posts a week, which isn't too bad but could be a lot better. I've gone through..

5 Jobs.
7 Countries.
6 Houses.
3 Trips.
2 Girlfriends.
2 Breakdowns.
1 Band.
1 Ball Chair.
10 Crushes.
1 Godddaughter.
And 67 Fried Monkey Brains.

Judging from this I could definitely increase the number of bands and girlfriends. (It could be argued that the Ball Chair count is a bit low also). However that discussion is for another time.

Regardless, to mark this most auspicious and arbitrary number/post count I am going to celebrate by changing my ENTIRE LIFE.

This post is going to be marked by me EMPLOYING MYSELF.

Aware of my extreme inability to regulate my time and finish the things I want to do outside of a working environment. Aware that If I put but half the energy I've put into all the shit jobs I've had before into my actual life, and inspired by the following excellent flash animation - Time Management For Anarchists, As of tomorrow I am gainfully employed to Myself. The job pays $250 a week. 5 hours a day, 4 days a week. Structured by 2 hour blocks and a range of duties. From personal maintenance, project development and implementation, writing, editing, printing etc.

Unfortunately I've been culled into Job Search Training by my greedy and ultimately useless employment agency. Since I am still to find the times for this I cannot yet allocate exact working hours. But I digress.. Being work, it will be treated as such. With the seriousness, structure, reward and organization that comes from having a job. I might even motivate others to employ themselves!

So far this is what I've got.

5 hours a day.
7.30 am starts.
2 hours in the morning.
3 hours in the afternoon.
1 blog post a day.

Blog Structure -

Monday - Weekly catchup.
Tuesday - Interesting Link.
Wednesday - Rant/Writing/Thought/Whatnot.
Thursday - Playlist.
Friday - Poem/Picture.

Work -

Project Development - Zine/Music/Shirts
Design - Graf/Art/Prints
Musical Practice - Guitar
Songwriting
Recording
Website Building
Life Organization
Networking

Obviously this is super sketchy. I'm only just beginning to formulate the plan. However it's so crazy it MIGHT JUST WORK!

I need..

1 GOOD Moleskin Notepad - Dated and broken down into hours.
An alarm system.
Materials.

Additional..

1 Day off a week minimum.
No all nighters.
Some sort of reward/punishment structure.
Clear timesheets.
Yoga.
A day's outing with myself once a week, cultural based.
Early Starts, reclaim the mornings!
Cook a meal at least once a week.
Weekly contact to Mexico.

It sounds a bit heady huh. But I will do it. I've undertaken changes more major than this in my life.. over-night! It's simply a matter of choice.

Considering no girls like me at the moment, I have no clear direction, money and basically feel like total loser. I might as well begin to like ME and not think that I'm a loser unto myself. Productivity and business should help occupy those parts of my brain more accustumed to lying in the fetal position wallowing in self pity and loneliness.

If it wasn't for this useless jobsearch shit I'd be onto it right away. But for now I have to wait and see how my life is structured by the government before I can structure it myself. What a crazy world we live in.