No bungee for me *EDIT* in OD

I’ve always wanted to do a bungee jump. Which is a bit strange, considering I’m shit scared of heights.

Anyhoo, turns out that the Transporter Bridge, right here in town, is the only place in Britain you can do a bridge jump. I decided that if I was going to do something like this, I may as well raise money for charity as well. So, I found someone that was organising a charity jump and contacted them for more info.

Turns out that in order to do the jump, I’ll need to pay a £60 non-refundable deposit by the end of the month. There’s no way I’ll manage that.

Bugger.

Ah well, maybe next time.

Apart from that, not much news. Not been sleeping too well recently for some reason. Meh, it happens. I’ve also been watching a lot of films, from films I hadn’t seen in a while and fell in love with again (The Crow, Magnolia) to filoms I’ve never seen before (Catfish).

The Crime Fact Vs Crime Fiction thing on Monday wasn’t quite what I had expected, but it was still well worth the fiver I spent going along. Fun, informative and I got me a forensics bodysuit!

Tuesday I went to the launch of a book of poems, art and prose about Temenos, which was done to celebrate it’s first birthday. Now, I’ve seen it up close and think what I thought when I saw the designs, when I saw pictures and when I saw it from a distance. It is completely and utterly ridiculous looking. (I’ll post pics later.) But one of the folk from my creative writing class has a poem in the book, was reading it out at the event, it was free and what the fuck else was I supposed to do at that time? So I went along. And was thoroughly entertained. There’s another launch a week on Friday and I’m going to that one. It’s longer, but there will be the ability to buy beer :¬).

I’m also planning to take part in a demonstration. Well, a counter demonstration. The EDL (for non Brits who may not know, the EDL are the English Defense League a group of “patriots” who are aligned with football hooligans and the BNP) are holding a demonstration in Boro in July and a bunch of us are planning to counter them. I will say this about the organisers from the EDL, they aren’t exactly bright. They had to change their promotional video and facebook page because they had spelt Middlesbrough wrong!

I’ve heard about what has happened at other EDL marches and demo’s. There are those who say we should just let them carry on, but I don’t think so. They have the right to do this, no doubt about that and I wouldn’t take any steps to stop them, but we have the right to let people know that the EDL views are not the views of the majority of Boro.

I’ll stop ranting now, before I end up in a lengthy bit about assisted death (though I may write that one as a seperate entry. Don’t forget you have till Saturday to ask me questions about absolutely anything you want. I have something special to answer them and it’s not really worth it for the two I have so far.

Will

*EDIT*

The pics:

Will