I'm extending the hiatus to indefinite now, because the laptop I was going to buy on Wednesday had increased in price in two days! I'm hoping it'll decrease next week because now that I've spent all week thinking about it, I really want it and all the other laptops at that price seem rubbish in comparison. It's an Acer Aspire 5742, in case anyone's ( Read more... )

This is a semi-hiatus announcement, as James' laptop broke last week and doesn't seem to be fixable, so we have no way to access the internet at home and I can only check my emails intermittently at work at the moment unless I stay late.

However, I was planning on buying myself a new laptop after my birthday anyway, so after visiting the Currys ( Read more... )

It's my birthday, hurrah! I'm 24, which feels quite grown up. My work colleagues have given me cake, daffodils and a bunch of beautiful flowers, and sung Happy Birthday to me, so it's a pretty good day so far. But yes, I am in work - it didn't seem worth booking the day off just to sit at home in the cold while everyone else goes to work.

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What a busy week! I don't feel like I've stopped since last Sunday. I made the mistake of telling Alex that I didn't have enough to do in work, so of course I've been given all the odd jobs since then, but as a lot of them are related to Christmas I don't mind too much. It's nice to be busy actually.

I was also busy at home because I had some ( Read more... )

Ugh, why are some people such rude idiots while others are so painfully polite and grateful?

In my inbox at work this morning, I had an email from a fool to whom we are trying to pay money complaining about how complicated the payment system is. It's not, really, we just have to make sure that you get paid in the correct way so that you get your ( Read more... )

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It's Reading Week for students, which is good news for us because the building is quieter, the phones aren't ringing and the staff are happier. It's also allowed us to ease into the week and recover from Hallowe'en and the clocks changing etc.

I had a lovely Hallowe'en weekend. On Saturday I went to a National Trust property, Quarry Bank Mill with ( Read more... )

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My colleague: What do you call people from Dundee?
Me: (thinking this is some sort of joke) Dundee Cakes!
Colleague: No. Dundonians.
Me: Oh.
Colleague: People from Glasgow are called Glaswegians, people from Fife are Fifers, people from Manchester are Mancunians... but what are people from Edinburgh called?
Me: Er... no idea.
Colleague: I think ( Read more... )