2004-03-10 - 3:50 p.m.

They say we all lose 21 grams when we diet.

No?

Oh well, please yourselves.

I saw an actor on TV that I went to college with, and I was thinking back to those heady days, ignoring the cold, stifling, liquid dread of the realisation that it�s a decade since I left, and the fact that I still haven�t found anything like a reputable career, of course.

I remember that there were two types of student that kept to their own groups, not counting the sportos, the motorheads, the geeks, sluts, bloods, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads and people that wanted to work in public relations.

First up were the lawyers. They even got their own building for lectures, which was a blessing in that it at least saved everyone else having to hose off quite so much.

The others were the drama students, who didn�t get their own building but who seemed to form some kind of drama force field around themselves, based solely on the exclusion of anyone that wasn�t a drama student. This was due solely to the fact that they experienced a deeper level of reality than the rest of us, and was IN NO WAY related to them being arrogant, conceited pricks who wouldn�t know the reality of existence if it got up and gave them a haircut.

I mean, there are a number of simple things that I cannot, for one reason or another, do. I never learned to tie a shoelace in the conventional way, for instance. Similarly, acting too is beyond me, but to have that used as a divisive social tool seems to be all half cock. Not that I was mad keen to smoke roll up cigarettes with a bunch of annoying hoo-rays hoping to be inducted into the most overrated profession on the planet but probably ending up �jobbing� in a selection of low grade porn films with a Shakespearean twist with titles like �Ass: You Like It� before settling into administrative hell like the rest of us. But you understand the beguiling nature of the situation.

But anyway. Not sure where that came from .

It pays to bitch about having no work because suddenly trips to Mexico, Greece, Reunion and Eritrea (yeah, me neither�) are tantalisingly on the cards�