Friday 13 November 2009

What a temporally strange week of my life it’s been. It began when I managed to gain access to the Business Class lounge at Heathrow T3. I Skyped my mother and showed her pictures of unlimited buffet - whoops of working class delight came out of the speakers.

I was one of the last people to find out who was going into the jungle - and there is still one mystery guest. They tell us nothing. Tis torture - but hopefully that curiosity will make good live telly.

It’s very odd staying on UK time. There’s an scoutish frisson in abandoning onself to nightime solitude; but a kind of wasteful loneliness about it too. I get 2 hours of social life before everyone else goes to bed and I am left alone to wonder in sepulchral paradise. Something ominous about hearing the ocean but not seeing it. I’ve taken to running at sunrise (7pm our time); there seems to be nudist spot on the beach. Quite a surreal image - king parrots scudding past hairy men as I jog on.

Meanwhile, onset, the jungle is a sinister place at night. The one thing that doesn’t come across properly on telly is the sound. A malignant serenade laid on by nature.

We’ve been making pretend shows all week just to practice. I even did a bit of trial action against Joe Swash. I thought I was being all cool and above the task, until I humiliated myself in the most unmitigated way. Am too tired and spaced to put interesting tangents in for blogees. It will all hot up next week though.

Swash and Flack are sociable, funny, and blokish - I’m like a little Rain Man reading in my room and waiting for Sunrise. They woke me at 9am this morning. They had just been for dinner - I went to Swash’s room and had two mind-fuck cocktails for what was my breakfast, then retired to my room to watch a movie in my pants. I can’t remember the last time I actually wasted a day. Indolence is actually hard work; perhaps I self-medicate with tasks. Even this blog is a little hit of to-do. Maybe I should write a short story and post it in my blog space. A Creative warm-up. Title suggestions anyone?