passed (100% on the oral exam, 97% written) so begin on monday/ as much as i thought working in an office again would polish me off, this last week's been pretty good/ met some sound entities, there's a nice pub round the corner and more bucks means more vinyl/ i'll go back to writing but at the moment it interests me not uno-iota/ i'm considering training as a radio disk jock, which i'd love/ anywho, ecooting king bee, back by dope demand, and drinking ace coffee/ sister came for supper 'n' drinks yester 'n' i imbibed small and to bed fairly early so no h'over and quite rested/ vice!/

lengthy jour of training with final examination tomorrow/ h'ever managed to get in the local public for 1130, 1300 and 1700 with my neu drinking-associate d- and thus became a recognised regular in one day/ listening marshall jefferson, move your body/ drinking a mixture of brandy, whiskey and water/ c'est ca...

wasted last night, consequence of foolishly beginning on the whiskey sodas then brandy sodas then straight whiskey/ up to v-'s where met some wanker who runs his restaurant whom i'd to give a proficient schooling/ the bullying little bitch ran off into the night without even saying goodbye to his hosts/ result!/ then woke with a stille-drunk this morn. and'd to be at employ for 1000 (not too bad, d'course) and it turned out to be a good day/ then to e- for are-ex en route home and now typing (like, obviously?) and sipping and iced stella/ all's well, plus dr. john's remedies is on it ways home, id est here/ nyse...

doin' g'd/ dinner party sun. ngt got to bed at 0200 and then up at 0630 in the dark and wind to travel to a training day/ it went well then'd a pint with a guy who'd also attended and browsed some record shops/ home lateish and exhausted so to bed at 2100 where slept till 1020 this morn so feel much better/ got a few things to tie up today (fnar-fnar) then start work proper tomorrow/ hopefully the freelance scene will breath again soon but the job should be awright, like/ listening cap. beef., party of special things to do/ bizat...

barely awake/ stayed up with t'alba till about 0dukmrfjtwas little esdh, and la/ i'm leaving that in because it seems to capture my current state of mind quite accurately/ any box, slipping between wake and non-wake so''ll construct some scentene slater/ bizat, fu...

got the other job too so now i've to decide which/ it's all rather dreary but the journey back thru soho to purchase ornette coleman's the shape of jazz to come, whiskey and then down pall mall and across st james's park was divine indeed, a pastel pink and crystal blue sky and a rippling, freezing river winking diamonds/ god that sounds horribly literary/ the whole of central london is frozen, below zero at 1200, which is quite something/ listening to alfred cortot play liszt's hungarian rhapsody no. 2, about 20 versions of which've now been uploaded to youtube/ before one could only get live performances, one by maxim and one by lang-lang (which some people hate, though i think their hatred is nothing more than jealousy for his performance of it on radio 3 was virtuosic, to say the least) but now a whole plethora, some by the great masters of the past century, is available/ anyway, vurgen out...

listening edgard varese, arcana/ on visiting my drinking partner and local raging alcoholic v- he informed me he'd given up drinking tho' by the time i left he'd revised his position to 'a few days off'/ ha!/ will he last hours 24 is the question?/ i sincerely hope so/ little else to report/ got an appointment for another similar job demain, one closer and better paid so, if i get it, i'll turn down t'other/ it's funny hearing about my peers, all of whom are in highly paid or highly responsible jobs/ i simply have not the ambition/ as long as i can pay my rent, buy records and booze and have the leisure to read and listen to music i'm content/ and that's not a complacent attitude/ i simply gain far more from my lifestyle than say, working in derivatives or for the treasury/ i think some of them find it a little strange since i was the only one to get a first but i'm much happier now than when i was in pursuit of a doctorate/ in that instance i found the satisfaction somewhat deferred/ that plus it was the first time in my life i'd not been able to breeze through/ i'm a lazy sod/