Went to train these people, got there at 10am-ish, trained them for 2 hours, went to the pub with my manager for 3 hours.  Not a bad days work.  Had an awesome 5 hours worth of conversation with my manager who's really nice; found out a lot of surprising stuff about her and lots of secrets about the job.  Met the fittest Vodafone worker ever (there ( Read more... )

Good week ( Read more... )

Today I found out that every form of life is descended from one strand of DNA inside a single cell;  that a prerequisite for new life is strong radiation but no oxygen, so everything that's alive now is the same age;  that the simplest definition of life is something like 'a substance that in a nutrient solution subdivides replicating itself ( Read more... )

There I was in my velvet jacket (velvet jacket) and everybody was loving it. So that was cool. We went in early and had a couple of those cocktail jugs each in weatherspoons -good plan. Then eventually we went somewhere else, and then to another bar and I fell in love with this barmaid because when I said ( Read more... )

I've never been as much of a whore as I was last night! Oh my god.

I discovered that wearing a tricorn pirates hat and an awesome velvet jacket gets you *so* much attention! All along I thought women were interested in "looks" and "personality" but it turns out they just like the feel of velvet.

We just had a BLIZZARD here with snow AND thunder/lightning - awesome! In 5 minutes we had half an inch of snow but it took 20-30 mins to build up to 2.5 inches. Now it's stopped though. Plus, it's the fantastic kind - the sort that's good for snowballs.

This was really serious snow, and the wind was WHOOOOSH.

Went into town for a workmate's leaving-do last night right after a game of squash, which wasn't such a swell idea; had a few drinks, chatted to some barmaids, laughed quite loudly quite a lot, chatted to some randomish girl and got her to come to a club with me; failed to get into the club because I was wearing TRAINERS; missed the last train ( Read more... )

Tomorrow I'm applying for a Russian visa for 3 months - to teach English in St Petersburg for 2 months and then travel around (ie. go to Moscow) for a month after that. It's volunteer work so I don't get a dime, and in fact have to pay £1500 for the experience. Should be awesome, and I'm very excited.

Yesterday, deciding to take a break from work, my friend, Paul, and I started to read. Yes - while he whipped out the Financial Times to track his indexes and what have you, I sneaked a peak at Dostoyevky's The Idiot. Along comes a manager, spots us doing this and tells us to get back to work ( Read more... )

Last night, I go to a club and it was aaalright.. promised my parents I'd be home by 1am so they didn't get woken up any later.. that was kinda a bummer because at about 12.20 I noticed some girl noticing me so I was noticing her back. But then I had to leave ( Read more... )