One of my colleagues posted this lyric on her weblog the other day:

Are you thinking/of telephones/and managers/and where you’ve got to be at noon?
You are living/a reality I left years ago/It quite nearly killed me.
In the long run/It will make you cry/Make you crazy and old before your time.

Seems rather appropriate, somehow.

On an entirely unrelated note. I’m sitting here at work listening to Christian O’Connell’s excellent XFM breakfast show (the other day he said that he’s just signed a new two year deal, which might just keep me getting up in the mornings). Anyway the following exchange made me laugh out loud (so much so that said colleague, who sits behind me, actually turned round to see what I was laughing at):

Christian: (as David Gray’s “Dead in the Water” fades out) I was just thinking, it’s just as well we didn’t play this one this time yesterday, when we were chatting to Michael Barrymore.
Chris Smith: What, doesn’t he like David Gray?
Christian: No, I think he’s more of a musical fan. Show tunes…

I’m sorry, it’s been a long week.