As of tomorrow I'll be officially starting. My working week is 3:30 pm - 2:30 am, Tuesday-Friday. We got a choice of shifts, but each available shift only had 1-3 free slots. I grabbed this one because it gives me sat/sun/mon free so if I want to go somewhere for a weekend (or have people over) I'll at most need to ask for a shortened Friday. ( Read more... )

So, last week a student in Finland shot 10 other students before killing himself ( Read more... )

Stayed with a couple friends from on-line, Roy & Janine. Little place called Heerlen right next to the borders of Belgium and Germany. (Roy told me of a street near him that started in Holland and ended in Germany)

I got the Eurostar for the first time in 10 years, the last time was just after it opened when speedfroy and I hopped across to Paris to meet ( Read more... )

A man sent his brother (who lived in another country) some money. The brother needed some farming equipment and to put some money together because his daughter was looking to get married ( Read more... )

Still alive

Still plodding along.

( What I get up to at work )

I was just thinking this morning that I needed to update livejournal more, but didn't have anything update-worthy to note. Then I went out to buy a sandwich for lunch and discovered that my bank account was empty ( Read more... )

pratheepa and I will be in Edmonton from Wed 14th to Wed 21st to attend nurse_quigg and Ryan's wedding.

That is all

...not much has happened. Had a few interviews (messed one up in a really silly way, the others went to applicants with 'more relevant experience' :-P) and still plugging away at the applications. Fun fun stuff.

Still spending most of my weekend time at j_ellaway and limit_fist's place in Camden. Speaking of whom, they graded from white belt to orange belt last ( Read more... )

The accounting position I applied for a coupla weeks ago still hadn't got back to me, so I called them and ended up speaking with the woman who interviewed me ( Read more... )

On Thursday afternoon, the guy I'm shadowing (Robert, although when he writes it it looks suspiciously like 'Robot') gave me a huge pile of the different forms we use - 1 of each form - with a view to my learning about them. On Friday morning he called me into his office to test me on said knowledge ( Read more... )