Mon 27th Aug ( Read more... )

Same tasks at work as last week. I frequently enquired about the possibility of staying there longer to work but it was last thing Thursday afternoon before I got a definitive answer. Z-- was very pleasant about it, emphasising that she’d found it very helpful to have me working in the office but ultimately there were some candidates that had ( Read more... )

Mon 6th Aug ( Read more... )

Saturday was uneventful. Peter gave me a car ride to our local shops so I could stock up on rabbit stuff (woodshavings, hay, food etc.). I bought a newspaper too and spent some time reading it in the afternoon. That’s actually not as obvious a thing to do as it sounds for me-often I buy newspapers then don’t read them for days or even weeks. Yes, ‘ ( Read more... )

Going through the motions of constrictive activity, I phoned the employment agency I’ve most recently registered with. I wasn’t expecting anthing to come of the phone call so was very pleasantly surprised when I was told I’d phoned ay exactly the right time. A new short-term temp job had come in, and the consultant was just about to start ( Read more... )

My mood has been generally crap this week. It could be put down to the significance of the date this week, or may simply be stuck in a depressed/miserable rut. I had an OU essay due on the 7th Aug which I absolutely don’t want to do because of how I feel. As I put it to R-- “It’s the last thing I feel like doing”. I made some enquiries on the ( Read more... )

Tues 24th JulIt seemed sensible to get out of the house on the one day this week it was supposed not to rain. My dad and I left almost immediately after each other. He walked to one bus stop, I walked to another. As the bus I was on went down the road, his went up it ( Read more... )

A quiz copied from Amelia ( Read more... )

That double length essay I started writing the day before the deadline? I got 70/100 for it. Sometimes I surprise myself. I'd been half expecting and half hoping to have srapped a pass with a 50 percent mark. This woman has a brain, woo hoo ( Read more... )

I've been passing a bit of time this evening by browsing profiles of men on an online dating site I'm signed up to. It would be good to meet someone special and C-- Job Centre is not an ideal place for that, so hence my membership of the dating website ( Read more... )