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Today's prize for irritating me...
(cue fanfare)....Goes to the computer, for smugly saying "done" in the bottom left hand corner when we both know it hasn't, and the web page is
not loaded up. And also the person who nearly made me fall head first down a flight of stairs at Fenchurch Street Station this morning. Hope you had a good day too.
Oh dear, that sounds like vitriol and bile a bit. I don't intend it to. I had quite a good day today; not too much to do, but enough so I didn't look as though I was completely dossing all day.
I don't think I have much for the rest of the week either. I could get used to this!
Oh..
and I've started working at home on Thursdays again. Which provides some much needed peace from the many in the office. It's very productive just to sit at home on the sofa and watch telly and work at the same time (yes, Mum, I can
still do two things at once, honest).
Huzzah!
I do, of course, know that this means that I will spend a few minutes typing this post and it will
then crash!
So... Work has been fairly non-stop for the last few weeks. It's only today that I h've had a fairly quiet day to file and other boring, but necessary, tasks. But I have an interview for a new job, which pays more. Ra!
As for play-time, the work situation means that there hasn't been an awful lot of that recently. We had friends down for the weekend though. I managed to cook, which was wonderful. And I take back what I have been known to say about Delia; her receiptes worked a treat. I am hoping that the work-life balance will judder onto track again. If that makes sense...
Trials and Tribulations
I have really tried very hard to post to this, but unfortunately, the computer crashes every time I do. Honest. I shall try this, and if it works, try something longer, but I don't think I can stand to spend a few minutes typing only to lose it all....
Wow
How tired am I? Regular readers of this blog (if indeed there are any) will note that tiredness is a common feature. My work-life balance is severely out of kilter. I shall kilt it in...
Testing, testing...
Just to see whether early mornings are the time to post. Cos lunchtimes certainly aren't...
Hee hee
Now I'm getting silly; I'm just posting because I can!!
BTW, I don't like hehehe; it's hee hee hee or he he he or nothing for me. The spaces are important. They give the utterances (I don't think they're words) form. But that's just me!
Book club
For some time, I have wanted to be a member of a book club. For no other reason that it's a trendy and erudite kinda thing to do. And also, I suspect my reading tastes are limiting and limited, and I would like to broaden them a little. So, as a friend is setting one up, I am one of the first members. Ha!
The first book is to be Donna Tartt's new book. Which is strange, because I read "The Secret History" on holiday some years ago because two people whose opinions I valued recommended it (nay, raved about it). So I read it, and I never really got what they loved. It was a good book, and I enjoyed it. It was gripping, but I didn't rave, and I'm not sure I would have recommended it to others. So I may read that again, just to see if I can get with that plot before getting with (or not) a whole new one. I think it'll be an interesting experience just discovering books which one wouldn't ordinarily read, and hearing other peoples' views on them.
So look to see more arcane and unexpected tomes gracing these pages.
Pooh.
I have tried to be good and to post more regularly. I have been thwarted. I have not been able to post at work. I don't know whether this is a Blogger problem or just a crap internet connection problem (although I suspect the latter), but it's very irritating to have written a whole entry, and then not to be able to post it. Humph.
I am not having a fun time at work at the moment. I still don't understand why urgent stuff takes far, far longer than non-urgent stuff, and indeed longer than the same stuff would take were it not to be urgent. I don't understand.
But, I plan to organise work to within an inch of its life. The plan some time ago was to work from home on Thursdays, and I plan to start the plan again. From this week. I have stuff to read, and a cunning speadsheet to draft and make beautiful. Once I have done that, I shall organise. Hopefully, I shall also prepare for an interview...
My eyes itch...
I think it's just tiredness, which makes me wonder why, when I decide to have an early night, it ends up being about 11.30. That's not my idea of an early night. An early night is between 9 and 10. 10.30 outside. Bleurgh.
And work is too busy, and people keep asking me questions...
Mental resolution; be more patient, and more sweetness and light!
Oh...
And I'm getting the CDs.
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
Go and see it; you know you want to...
Seriously, a great film. New Zealand was made to be the backdrop for this film.
I saw The Two Towers today, and I quite liked it, really.
Decisions, decisions
Or alternatively, how to spend money.
There are some CDs I'd love to get; 4 Diana Krall ones, and a million Frank Sinatra ones (oh, OK, then, 28). They are a bargain. The Diana Krall ones are £7, and the Sinatra £125 (for all 28). But that does equate to rather a lot of money. Especially as I don't listen to music than much. But then maybe I would if I had the CDs.
Or, as I feel that I should read better, perhaps I should buy some books from Amazon.
Or maybe, and even more radically, I should use a credit card, hope I get new job, and pay off credit card with increased salary...?!!
It was very strange going back to work for one day of the week yesterday, and I can't say it was monumentally pleasurable. I really think that I've had enough of that job, even if it weren't for all the grief I was getting from my colleagues. The good part of the day though was giving feedback about home-working, and saying exactly what I though about some people's attitudes and the fact that the problems are really non-existent, and even if they did exist that it is not exactly mature to fester with them for months, and then bring them out into what is bound to be a confrontational arena. It's quite nice having made the decision to leave, because it does alway give you the power to say what you think without worrying about the consequences. Not that saying what I think has ever been something I have shied away from.
I look at the Blogger site before logging in here. Usually, I just go there, and then come here. But I actually had a little look today. There are loads and loads of people blogging, and what for. It is a very sophisticated diary system really; but I must say that I have managed to make more entries in here than I ever managed to in a diary. Perhaps that's because I can do it at odd times, and write odd thoughts without having to dig around for diary, and pen, and have people ask what I'm doing. But I do sometimes wonder what I get out of it, and what, for that matter others get out of it, and whether I get the same thing out of it that others do. I could continue. But for the sake of sanity, I won't.
Bleueurrrgh
I don't like work, and I don't really want to be here. Moan, moan. The headache I had pretty much consistently before Christmas is showing signs of peeping over the parapet again. I thought it might be a stress headache; now I'm pretty much sure it is. And I have nothing of great, or even tiny, moment to impart. Oh well, maybe later.
Happy New Year
to anyone and everyone who reads this. Lets hope that 2003 replicates the highs, and deletes the lows of last year!
Now I go sleep.
