I've got a job, right, and the sudden onset of actually working and getting up early has meant I've been too busy and tired to write one of these. A mistake I think, that, to use this platform to moan and simper when unemployed, only to sack it off when things are better. Soooo seeing as I'm here, how about a little update. Well, I've been working at the Sheffield University admissions department, on the road up from the West End pub. That pub, incidentally, is where I spent my first night in Sheffield when I came up in 2004. Depressingly, and I have to admit mainly through my insistence, we went there and did a quiz and played pool. We didn't even sodding win, and all the while the cool kids of Halifax Hall were partying as if t'were 1999 in their tiny, characterless student bar.

The job involves processing paperwork and dealing with uni applicants, and it looks like it's going to be absolutely fine. The pay's quite good for temp work, and I think it should last for a good few months, which is exactly what I need having been so skint for so long. I'm sitting next to my friend Amy. Me being there at all is entirely down to her word, so more than anything I owe it to her to try hard and do well. I'll let you know how it goes.

Aside from that, I've done what I usually do when I have no money: stay indoors watching downloaded TV series. In the last couple of weeks I've ploughed my way through the first series of Treme, the latest offering from dishevelled Mark Lawson lookalike David Simon, creator of The Wire and Generation Kill. It's fairly slow to get going, but is awesome, and rewards patient viewing with a fantastic array of characters. And music. Loads and loads of music. I've also watched the first series of Louie, a sitcom written and directed by Louis CK. It's a bit like Seinfeld and a bit like Curb Your Enthusiasm, in that it concerns the life of a stand up comedian and intersperses moments from it with clips of him performing. There's no laugh-track. It deals heavily with pretty bleak themes, like loneliness, depression and the crushing inevitability of death, but does so in an often hilarious way. There are some really touching moments, bits that made me well-up, but most of all there are lots of things in it which are piss-yourself funny. It's brilliant, and you should watch the arse off  it.