Last time I was here (16 days ago) I chided myself for neglecting this blog, and I fully intended not to do it again. But, life happens, and while supplying my few fans with things to read was always on my to do list it just kept getting shoved to the bottom by more important things.
As it is, this will have to be a very brief fly-by posting, as I am on my sister’s machine at my parent’s house, which is quite possibly the slowest computer in history, if you discount my old ’98 IBM. (It’s actually the same computer I used for my 6th Year projects and essays, and all my computing needs during my gap year, so I’m quite fond of it in a way, but I do remember it being much faster then! Perhaps Claire, who adopted it when I received a shiny new laptop, has not been treating it so well.) Anyways, I logged on fully intending to end my email and Facebook checking session with a nice long blog, but that was over an hour ago, and frankly I’m sick of the waiting for things to load and the clicking/whirring/whining noise that the computer tower makes when its ‘thinking’, so you lot will just have to do without.
So, I shall give my news/highlights of the past two weeks in bullet points, and I promise to resume normal wordy programming when I’m back in the land of fast RAM and Tiscali broadband!
1) I lost my job at the Swine Flu line due to “lack of traffic” – it sucks as I needed the money, but I’m really not surprised at all!
2) I came home to Aberdeen for my birthday – was only supposed to be here for five days, but see above, under lack of job to return for, and so I ended up staying and mooching off the parents for an extra week.
3) Fleur came with me for the first week and we had a fantastic time.
4) Dad has been in Calgary (where spent the first ten years of my life) for work the past few weeks, and Mum and Claire have been home alone driving each other crazy. (Another reason for my extended stay is that he was given a week’s vacation to come back and see us all, and he’ll be going back til the end of September on Monday.)
5) Pepper is still as cute as ever, and we finally found a way to give him his wormer without him knowing – the dog is very clever when it comes to avoiding taking his medicine, and has been getting cleverer (and driving us up the walls) for the last four years, so this is big news in the Wilson household. (We’re sad, but it’s true!)
6) I turned 21!!! Aaaah!
And that’s about it! I really do promise to get back to proper blogging, both for the sake of my readers and my portfolio, soon. Until then!
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Monday, 10 August 2009
Just a quick update
I have been neglecting this page. I do feel badly about that, since it defeats both purposes of having it – to keep people updated and to actually do some writing this summer!
But anyone who knows me will hopefully excuse this, as I have been crazy busy this past week and a bit. It makes a nice change, I must say, from the boredom of the past month,but I do wish I could find a happy medium instead of two extremes!
So, what have I been up to? Plenty, but nothing much of interest worth reporting! My days have been filled with friends, work on the Pompey Guide and busywork (those little everyday chores and ‘paperwork’ that just have to be done). My evenings have been spent either re-discovering Bewitched – seriously, why did I ignore those box sets for over a year? – or at work, being bored out of my mind!
It’s massively frustrating – my days are filled with lots of things to do and barely enough time to do them, but I then stop doing them and go to work, where I spend eight solid hours being idle. (I got the swine flu helpline job by the way, though “job” is stretching it a bit as I average one ten-minute call every two hours.) Most people would be glad to have a job where they were paid good money to do nothing, but most of us here agree that if it wasn’t for the pay we would have walked by now. There’s only so many ways to keep yourself amused in this place, and we’ve exhausted them all by now!
I’ve seen Kung Fu Panda at least six times (silent, with subtitles, and have yet to find it funny), read four trashy magazines (Cosmo and Glamour, old and new issues), beaten every level on Superstacker 2 and achieved a Tetris personal best (we have games and TV screens, but no internet or remote controls). I’ve also eaten a lot of vegetable sticks, apples, chocolate and Twiglets!
And that, dear friends, is the extent of the entertainment here at TLC – I say here because I’ve just discovered that you’re allowed a notepad and pen and am actually handwriting this at work, to be typed up later; yes, I am that bored! There’s very little to keep one amused. Unless, of course, you count my co-workers, who are a fascinating study of human behaviour.
There’s the carb-conscious, HTTP manual-reading fellow, who tries to convince me red peppers and daily vitamins are bad for me then goes and gets chips with curry sauce for dinner. And a medical student from Cardiff – who is CUTE with a capital Q by the way – who smokes and reads George Orwell. And a feminist who pounced on me when I toted out a Modern Studies approved statement about women simply being biologically disadvantaged when it came to inequalities in the workplace (apparently pregnancy is a pure myth invented by meek subservient women like me...) And a fellow who didn’t understand my joke about “drinking only to excess”, because he didn’t know what the last word meant. Et al – there are about 45 of us here at any one given time, so plenty of future novel fodder! Eclectic, fascinating, amusing; yes. Worth coming to work for; no (no offence guys!) But they help pass the time, and we’re all in the same boat.
Anyway, I sense I’m beginning to ramble. Just thought I’d surprise the few of you who care with a drive by update – I will try to do better in future, so please keep reading!
But anyone who knows me will hopefully excuse this, as I have been crazy busy this past week and a bit. It makes a nice change, I must say, from the boredom of the past month,but I do wish I could find a happy medium instead of two extremes!
So, what have I been up to? Plenty, but nothing much of interest worth reporting! My days have been filled with friends, work on the Pompey Guide and busywork (those little everyday chores and ‘paperwork’ that just have to be done). My evenings have been spent either re-discovering Bewitched – seriously, why did I ignore those box sets for over a year? – or at work, being bored out of my mind!
It’s massively frustrating – my days are filled with lots of things to do and barely enough time to do them, but I then stop doing them and go to work, where I spend eight solid hours being idle. (I got the swine flu helpline job by the way, though “job” is stretching it a bit as I average one ten-minute call every two hours.) Most people would be glad to have a job where they were paid good money to do nothing, but most of us here agree that if it wasn’t for the pay we would have walked by now. There’s only so many ways to keep yourself amused in this place, and we’ve exhausted them all by now!
I’ve seen Kung Fu Panda at least six times (silent, with subtitles, and have yet to find it funny), read four trashy magazines (Cosmo and Glamour, old and new issues), beaten every level on Superstacker 2 and achieved a Tetris personal best (we have games and TV screens, but no internet or remote controls). I’ve also eaten a lot of vegetable sticks, apples, chocolate and Twiglets!
And that, dear friends, is the extent of the entertainment here at TLC – I say here because I’ve just discovered that you’re allowed a notepad and pen and am actually handwriting this at work, to be typed up later; yes, I am that bored! There’s very little to keep one amused. Unless, of course, you count my co-workers, who are a fascinating study of human behaviour.
There’s the carb-conscious, HTTP manual-reading fellow, who tries to convince me red peppers and daily vitamins are bad for me then goes and gets chips with curry sauce for dinner. And a medical student from Cardiff – who is CUTE with a capital Q by the way – who smokes and reads George Orwell. And a feminist who pounced on me when I toted out a Modern Studies approved statement about women simply being biologically disadvantaged when it came to inequalities in the workplace (apparently pregnancy is a pure myth invented by meek subservient women like me...) And a fellow who didn’t understand my joke about “drinking only to excess”, because he didn’t know what the last word meant. Et al – there are about 45 of us here at any one given time, so plenty of future novel fodder! Eclectic, fascinating, amusing; yes. Worth coming to work for; no (no offence guys!) But they help pass the time, and we’re all in the same boat.
Anyway, I sense I’m beginning to ramble. Just thought I’d surprise the few of you who care with a drive by update – I will try to do better in future, so please keep reading!
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