Thoughts On Life In The Present.

Had myself a day off yesterday, which has become something of a rarity. Two weeks from today and the ARTillery festival will be over and I'll be filling in all the evaluation forms, sending all the petitions down to Sydney and making sure everything is in its right place. It's going to be a big weekend judging by the response we've had so far.

I'll be getting in touch with all of our artists in the next few days, I've already seen some updates from them and there are going to be some brilliants works. At this point I'm still worried about fitting everything in, but Carmen keeps telling me it'll be fine and she's pretty experienced at curating.

Some time this week we'll be meeting a journalist from mX to get an article and photo in their newspaper. This Sunday I'll also be appearing on 4ZZZ for an interview. This week is all about raising awareness, we're doing a pretty good job of that.

We were at the West End markets at 4:30am this past Saturday to set up a stall for ARTillery. We finally got our business card sized flyers and badge maker during the week, both of which were quite popular. We also took action for women in Egypt once again. We had 55 people take action which was absolutely fantastic. Carmen and I had to head back to the office around 9am because we and the other ARTillery coordinators were being trained by the national team on how to train our own volunteers. Those guys are starting their events this week, wow it's so close!

I've gone down a dose on my anti-depressants, down to 75mg of Efexor a day now. Technically there's a 37.5mg dose that's the smallest, but I won't be going on it. Once my current prescription finishes in about five months I'm going to be off them completely. At least that's the plan. Apparently I've already been on these for a year, can't believe it's been that long already. A few months of cipramil before that, then I realized that in a few months it'll have been five years since I returned from China. Though it's only been about half that time since I started getting professional help.

I'm excited, just a few more months and I can consider that portion of my life closed. Who knows what's going to have become of my life by then? I've already come so far these past few months, so far.

I'm starting my fourth week at my service station job today. I don't wake up going 'Urgh, I wish I didn't have to go', even if it is at 4am. Very good sign, as far as paid work goes I'm very content. After that I've got to head over to Amnesty for my reception shift and weekly ARTillery meeting with the team. Busy day. :) But I'm used to it now I'm glad to say.

Well I probably won't write anything for another week at which point I should be pretty nervous. Won't think about that right now though. There's a lot to do. Have a great week. Hugs.

Andy Scott