Bringing you upto speed... June 08

If you've been in a coma or watching nothing but Dave for the past year, then you've probably missed a few things that have happened in the world. I'll try and summarise here, without going into too much detail (I don't want to patronise those of you out there who have heard what's happening out there). I shall also try and give some frame of reference of what I was doing at the time...but this isn't about me necessarily. I have chosen the excellent Wikipedia as my memory refresher...

So, in an effort to remain focused and concise, I've opted for a month-by-month account. I rejected the comic-book format due to the fact I can't really be arsed and it would look a bit shit. So, here we go:

June 2008:
Me - Quit working at the Joogleberry Playhouse. Began first real period of unemployment, approx 3 months before the 'big crash'. Started watching Battlestar Galactica. Good timing Mike!

The World - Barack Obama wins first primary (and is first Afro-American elected) in the run-up to the US Elections '08. No-one is really sure who he is or how he thinks he'll get elected, the audacity of it! Nevertheless, Clinton bottles it and throws in the towel, sensing an inevitible Republican victory.

Sub-Prime crisis begins to gain column inches, but no-one actually knows what this means (including the people who thought it was a sustainable business model). Across the globe, nations start announcing plans to stave off recession, including the economic powerhouses of Lithuania and Ireland.

Al-Qaeda bombs the Danish Embassy because they didn't like a cartoon drawn by a Great Dane, go easy on him...he's only got four legs.

Spain dick on the rest of Europe and win the Euros, England is, like, totally not bovvered though!

California legalises gay marriages, The Governator becomes the most widely requested bridesmaid since records began.

Robert Mugabe is stripped of an honorary knighthood by the UK Foreign Office, exactly what he was doing with a knighthood I don't know.


So June was a quiet month by all accounts, one of those smouldering months where stuff is happening just below the surface but the average person doesn't really care. I didn't, I was handing in my notice and lining up more interviews for what I now come to refer to as "the Summer of Discontent' How it would all change...