Stinker of a Day

Today was ruddy hot. Drove to studio after watching Surrogates on the PC... good flick, if a bit simple.. annoying that the scientist from I, Robot is in it as a scientist who makes robots & doesn't trust them. Again. He must be very typecast, its just lucky for him that SF & robots is so big now in cinema i guess, he can just play the same guy over n over, i mean soon as u see him u immediately know he is a scientist who makes robots and doesn't trust them. And yeah u know Bruce Willis is gonna be misunderstood & unfairly stood down as cop & have to work alone etc etc. But hey its got robots & that, so cool, its worth seeing.

I poked (patted) at Mr sculpture in ineffectual fashion then got train to Bondi to see tax dude. It seem he have a massive effort when he do my tax... i cannot imagine why unless its cos i'm utterly crap at getting my shit together. Oh yeah, that could be it. Enjoyed the train ride & the tax dude laff at my jokes & apart from that the news is not fantastic: shell out 20K for BAS. Its a bit rich of the govt to expect this & while u may indeed get a load of $$ thru yr bank account, it seem much more go out than come in when u are doing the govt's tax collecting & paying tax "ahead" which seems strange & unsettling. And esp if u are paying a tax dude vast amounts to do it cos its so arse-bitingly complicated & if you think 2 seconds, u will remember it was never as bad as this, tax i mean. Poor tax chap he goes white sometimes & all quiet cos he has to calculate something so horrible it even make a seasoned tax accountant blanch.

So then i sweat my way back to studio, tho i do enjoy my train ride. I imagine real commuter ppl laff when i say that. how silly they think, but they never grew up in a suburb where there's no trains at all & u never think about them. Its a jolly adventure for me & i do enjoy seeing the backs of all the industrial areas that u cannot see otherwise. For e.g. I never knew there was a huge yawning brickpit in the back of that particular bit of marrikville its no wonder u can't walk thru to the Metro that way.

Then everybody all feelin washed out from the heat of the day. And giant traffic jams which i was lucky to rat run away from. Standing in traffic unmoving as lights change & change & change again is a very bad look when its as hot as that. I was cool tho i had some twisties (to replace salt) and a bottle of water. i just sweated there but it was at least 1 degree cooler by this time 6pm so i was happy enough esp when i found my escape.