The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest

Last night I finished reading The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest by Stieg Larsson, which concludes his Millennium Trilogy (the other volumes being The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire). The book takes off directly from the end of the second one, and contines a compex and involving conspiracy thriller. I really enjoyed the whole series and I thought that the second and third books were a lot better than the first, which was still good. They do have to be read in sequence though. I'd like to see the Swedish movie versions of the series that were out last year. Also there is an English-language version of Girl with the Dragon Tattoo coming out at the end of this year. Stieg Larsson died in November 2004 shortly after delivering the manuscripts of the three books to his publisher, however an unfinished manuscript for a further book is apparently still on his computer so it wouldn't surprise me if someone tried to completel it at some point. The book is reviewed over at Permanently Weird.

It was the start of another week at work and pretty much it was the same as usual. In the afternoon I had a meeting with the team leader about how I've been getting on with the training period and I was told I was actually doing very well so that was good. I alwasy get really nervous about these meeting things because I always expect to be told that I'm screwing up.

I had an idea for a comic book, actually about three comic books. One a kind of cyberpunk thing, another a kind of horror thing and the third something about someone wandering around a strange city looking for something they lost. They probably won't happen though.

Yesterday my parents were telling me to try on-line dating again, but to be honest I'm totally out of the whole dating thing and kind of see it as a bit of a waste of time. Maybe if I emigrate I'll get into the whole dating thing again, but not until then. I got fed up of it awhile ago and I just think that there are other things to do. Would I like a girlfriend? Of course I would, ideally, but I would also like to be a superhero living in a mansion in Beverley Hills, and one is about as likely to happen as the other.

Busy Work Day

Last night was really quiet again, and I spent most of the time reading my books and watching TV.

Today was another dull day at work, but it was really busy, due to all the problems yesterday. It was actually kind of chaotic. Everywhere was absolutely freezing outside and all the pavements were iced up, so you had to be really careful where you were walking. On ym way home I stopped off and bout some milk, sugar and the latest issue of Empire magazine which was doing it's 2010 preview issue this month.

I sometimes wonder whether I'll ever get a girlfriend this year. Actually I do think it's highly unlikely, and I have pretty much given up on it. To be honest from what I've seen from other people and the experiences that I've personally had of dating in the past I think I'm probably better off out of it. If I get to Canada then I might try again, but I probably won't. In general, I suppose I always get nervous about going for the stuff I want because, knowing me, I'd screw it up in some way or something would go horribly wrong and I'd end up more miserable than I was before.

Sorry about that last paragraph, it's not particularly cheerful.

You Have Been Watching

Last night I was watching a comedy panel show called You Have Been Watching in which basically, the host and a panel of comedians and TV presenters poke fun at the week's television. It can be very funny at times. Following that I saw the latest epsiode of The Wire, which was pretty good.

Today has been pretty quiet. It was a fairly dull day at work, and the work ran out about an hour before the end of the day, however at that time it was really too late to do much about it.

I'm still pretty much set on pretty much abandoning the whole idea of dating. To be honest I just find it depressing and pointless because it never actually has worked for me. Maybe if I get to Canada I might change my mind, but I honestly doubt it.