It's weird how nervous and anxious I still get talking to my Dad. You'd think I'd sort of have gotten over it by now, but I just feel like in some ways my relationship to my parents are stuck at the pre-2000 levels. I guess some things never change, and this reminds me why I decided a long time ago that this just isn't a relationship that can work ( Read more... )

Weekend has rolled around! and somehow it's not all that I expected it to be, even though I did wake up, realise it's 7:30 and then proceed to think that I have to - a. turn my alarm off, and then b. haul my lazy ass to work - it was a nice surprise to then realise that I didn't have to get up and go to work ( Read more... )

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What an excellent wkend - I slept for a huge portion of Friday night, Saturday morning - went to Jono (Jo's brother)'s Birthday BBQ (and met a whole bunch of his high school/WoW friends), and spent today at Jo's helping her study and also playing catch at the park. Yes I was studying for somebody else's exam during the holidays!!! That's novelty ( Read more... )

Am feeling terribly tired and strange. I hate being tired, it does such strange things to my brain and I get very entirely paranoid and depressed for no particular reason, even though I'm somewhat aware of this these days. For this I must sleep. I should have been paid today but erm, well, something's not right and I simply haven't been as yet ( Read more... )

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Well that was my first week at work - doing calculations for big variable speed limit/variable message sign gantries and frames and what not, going through a big pile of engineering drawings to pick out any errors before they build the things, and today the glorious task of designing a stand for an electrical cabinet. Work's better than what I ( Read more... )

Yes, it's true, I am parting with the celebrated race team in a week ( Read more... )

Had my first exam - fortunately for me it went pretty well, no big snags or anything ( Read more... )

MMMM my new wallpaper

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