Monday, August 23, 2004
Its Monday again (boo) and we've all had a fabulous day back at work (true, if you are one of the .001% of the population that has a leap-out-of-bed-can't-wait-to-start-another-day-job or a sadist) . My day, like all days started with 3 cups of instant coffee - hmmmm, coffee powder sprayed onto globs of fat, yummy - a number of irritating bugs in the website, and a general sulk. Avoid me on Monday mornings... nothing good will come of trying to make contact.
I do truly wish I enjoyed my job. I used to. I was once one of those wildly motivated and optimistic young employees that put every ounce of energy into going above-and-beyond the call of duty KNOWING that there efforts will be recognised and rewarded. Four years on, I have to poke myself in the eye to get myself out of bed on a normal day. So are we all feeling good about ourselves now!?!
Its great having a little whinge, isn't it. Especially when, a) the people/place/situation your moaning about aren't aware of it and b) there are people out there who might actually have a twinge of sympathy (or is it empathy? Potentially both, depending on your current situation) . Of course, when writing a weblog there is always the danger that one of the people from the place or situation may stumble upon the complaints. To this I say, oh well, its well time they know about it anyway! (I'm sure I'll feel the same way when the P45 is sitting on my desk...)
Now for positive thoughts! The sanding/varnishing of the front room is a huge success! It looks totally fab. Granted, we've had to clean the house three times to get rid of the thin layer (and sometimes not so thin) of sawdust that has settled everywhere (did you know that sawdust can attach itself to walls?) and the Sky box (cable) has bit the dust (literally, it didn't like being covered in dust and died in protest) , but otherwise G and I are happy with the results. The next "housing" project is the loft conversion; builders in my house for three weeks tracking mud everywhere - fun. But at least when its over I can scurry upstairs and hide whenever G is after me to do some onerous chore (cooking, cleaning, you know the drill) .
Other than the excitement of sawdust, the rest of the week has been pretty quiet. I've studied for my exams (good girl!) and did the first of my pre-examination assignments today. I wasn't actually a very good girl ;-0 -- I kinda peeked at the assignments to see the kind of questions I needed to answer (I couldn't help it, I'm naturally curious). So two assignments are pretty easy, and two are going to be - how should I put it - a bitch. I'm going to try to get one of the difficult ones done tomorrow maybe and leave the other one to Saturday? Or maybe I should just get them both over with and leave the final easy one for Sunday. The easy one that is left, is easy: I need to design, plan and develop a simple website. Tempted to just give them the URL for the wedding website, but that might not be looked too well upon.
Instead, I might plan a newlyweds website - I need some new inspiration anyway. The wedding is over! Done! Finito! Then I can transfer the weblog, and we don't need to talk about weddings anymore! I'm running out of material anyway. The pictures are getting on my nerves (I know, I need to put some more on the site) , I still haven't written any thank yous (my goal is to have them done by mid-September - I think that's realistic) and who knows what I'm going to do with exceptionally_expensive-wedding_dress_in_the_closet (I keep meaning to put it on e-bay, but it just hangs there looking sad at me - yes, clinically insane, get the white coat out). I did actually by some new and exciting domain names: oesterle-crowther.com, booger-snots.com and mroandhismagicbus.com (don't ask, I'm not even sure why) . What I'm going to do with them, I_don't_know - but I'll have loads to keep me busy once the NASTY_EXAMS are over.
Worst bit about the timing of everything (my entire life is all about bad timing) is that this week is Mardi Gras (Manchester Gay Pride is the real name, but I've always know it as Mardi Gras) this week and Sean keeps tempting me with interesting and fun activities. Parades and parties all week! Thursday sounds especially superb - gay games- things like stiletto throwing and god knows what else. I mean, what more could you ask for in a night out? Large, camp, men chucking shoes at each other. I might have to work my exams around that one.
I do truly wish I enjoyed my job. I used to. I was once one of those wildly motivated and optimistic young employees that put every ounce of energy into going above-and-beyond the call of duty KNOWING that there efforts will be recognised and rewarded. Four years on, I have to poke myself in the eye to get myself out of bed on a normal day. So are we all feeling good about ourselves now!?!
Its great having a little whinge, isn't it. Especially when, a) the people/place/situation your moaning about aren't aware of it and b) there are people out there who might actually have a twinge of sympathy (or is it empathy? Potentially both, depending on your current situation) . Of course, when writing a weblog there is always the danger that one of the people from the place or situation may stumble upon the complaints. To this I say, oh well, its well time they know about it anyway! (I'm sure I'll feel the same way when the P45 is sitting on my desk...)
Now for positive thoughts! The sanding/varnishing of the front room is a huge success! It looks totally fab. Granted, we've had to clean the house three times to get rid of the thin layer (and sometimes not so thin) of sawdust that has settled everywhere (did you know that sawdust can attach itself to walls?) and the Sky box (cable) has bit the dust (literally, it didn't like being covered in dust and died in protest) , but otherwise G and I are happy with the results. The next "housing" project is the loft conversion; builders in my house for three weeks tracking mud everywhere - fun. But at least when its over I can scurry upstairs and hide whenever G is after me to do some onerous chore (cooking, cleaning, you know the drill) .
Other than the excitement of sawdust, the rest of the week has been pretty quiet. I've studied for my exams (good girl!) and did the first of my pre-examination assignments today. I wasn't actually a very good girl ;-0 -- I kinda peeked at the assignments to see the kind of questions I needed to answer (I couldn't help it, I'm naturally curious). So two assignments are pretty easy, and two are going to be - how should I put it - a bitch. I'm going to try to get one of the difficult ones done tomorrow maybe and leave the other one to Saturday? Or maybe I should just get them both over with and leave the final easy one for Sunday. The easy one that is left, is easy: I need to design, plan and develop a simple website. Tempted to just give them the URL for the wedding website, but that might not be looked too well upon.
Instead, I might plan a newlyweds website - I need some new inspiration anyway. The wedding is over! Done! Finito! Then I can transfer the weblog, and we don't need to talk about weddings anymore! I'm running out of material anyway. The pictures are getting on my nerves (I know, I need to put some more on the site) , I still haven't written any thank yous (my goal is to have them done by mid-September - I think that's realistic) and who knows what I'm going to do with exceptionally_expensive-wedding_dress_in_the_closet (I keep meaning to put it on e-bay, but it just hangs there looking sad at me - yes, clinically insane, get the white coat out). I did actually by some new and exciting domain names: oesterle-crowther.com, booger-snots.com and mroandhismagicbus.com (don't ask, I'm not even sure why) . What I'm going to do with them, I_don't_know - but I'll have loads to keep me busy once the NASTY_EXAMS are over.
Worst bit about the timing of everything (my entire life is all about bad timing) is that this week is Mardi Gras (Manchester Gay Pride is the real name, but I've always know it as Mardi Gras) this week and Sean keeps tempting me with interesting and fun activities. Parades and parties all week! Thursday sounds especially superb - gay games- things like stiletto throwing and god knows what else. I mean, what more could you ask for in a night out? Large, camp, men chucking shoes at each other. I might have to work my exams around that one.
