get a virtual life

I went out for a drink with work. People were leaving, but I will surely see them again (as in some afterlife) on Facebook.

Paul, who is not leaving, was talking about how people like him cannot afford to move out of their parents' houses and are therefore condemned to become ‘perpetual adolescents’. He is considering forming a protest group. I suggested that they might indeed call themselves the perpetual adolescents, and whine in unison, and shout slogans like ‘That’s so unfair!’ They could all stomp upstairs and slam their bedroom doors at the same time; it would have the force of a bomb.

Paul is not keen on house-shares, but ours seems to be working out. Having said that, Dave hasn’t been here this weekend, and neither have I, much. Perhaps because of this, Ross has set up a virtual house-share in The Simms 2, with all of us as characters: I was able to view myself lying in bed watching TV. My bedroom didn’t seem to have any walls, but on the plus side I was younger and better-looking. ‘They seem to be getting on at the moment’, said Ross. Perhaps ominously.

Mat and Amanda are back from their holiday in Spain. They spent the entire time watching Jeremy Kyle and movies on ITV2. And if their relationship can survive that, it can surely survive anything. Mat was talking about using her as a consultant, presumably in business matters. Though the image that sprang to mind, no doubt unfairly, was of Mat asking: ‘What do I do now?’, every five minutes.