update
well its almost 2 months on from my last update and a lot has happened since.
it took some time to get a new laptop and wii from my insurance and during that time i got a new mobile phone with unlimited internet. decided against the iphone in the end, in favour of a free cybershot phone and cheaper tariff my £35 one was reduced to £20.
my ka was found (not too far from where i live). was a bit odd, it had a spade and gardening gloves in it and a whole bunch of drum and base cds. chavs i reckon. yuck. went to see my ka and it was quite scratched up, had a flat tyre and front bumper had come off one side. car insurance people were messing me about, took ages for them to decide whether my car could be repaired and to give me a courtesy car. in the end i had to get my dad to speak to them. but on friday i actually got my own car back.
just over a month ago i started my new job. its been odd working late shifts (typically 1-9.30pm) and some days there is very little to do so it really drags. they're also really mean with breaks and we only get half an hour, which isn't enough really especially on a busy day when you over-run and half your break is over before you've been on it, staff seem to not realise that booking someone in during your half hour break or as you are about to leave isn't on either. i have a lot of things i could bicker about to be honest... staff aren't very well trained and there can be a real bad atmosphere sometimes, but then on other occasions its really laid back and friendly. i'm spread between 2 different stores in the same shopping centre, which are staffed and run differently. my roa is such that one week i do 6 days in a row (and by the end of the 5th day i've just about had enough, but the 6th day is a sunday which is shorter and then i always have mondays off). the good news about the long week is the following week i get a long weekend as if its a bank holiday :)
this week i have been in the bluewater store being trained but an old uni friend! over the past 4 days i have watched surgery, learnt all about how surgery is performed and the different types of surgery and what makes people suitable and how to assess people and also how to manage people post-op. its been a steep learning curve and i have had to deal with some of the rarer things including a man fainting during his assessment...TWICE! that was pretty scary, and i hope it never happens again! anyways now i have had this training it seems my role will be dramatically different, as most laser optoms don't do ordinary sight tests and contact lens work. having spoken to the other laser optoms i am pretty certain i don't want to do that full time.
last weekend was pretty hardcore too. once more i got a weekend pass for frightfest. elected to miss most late night showings in favour of a faster journey home. i did however catch 22 of the films! ones well worth a watch are eden lake, time crimes, trailer park of terror, freakdog, dance of the dead, the chaser, midnight meat train, tokyo gore police, from within, autopsy, martyrs, the disappeared and death race. my personal favourites were time crimes, the chaser and midnight meat train. although i did think martyrs was probably the most powerful of all the films. it was kinda upsetting to watch (and i rarely find myself shocked by cinema) i think it was when the director began to talk about his depression and his set designer/effects guy taking his own life that it became even bleaker and more real. i'm definitely gonna try to see the ones i missed on dvd too.
it took some time to get a new laptop and wii from my insurance and during that time i got a new mobile phone with unlimited internet. decided against the iphone in the end, in favour of a free cybershot phone and cheaper tariff my £35 one was reduced to £20.
my ka was found (not too far from where i live). was a bit odd, it had a spade and gardening gloves in it and a whole bunch of drum and base cds. chavs i reckon. yuck. went to see my ka and it was quite scratched up, had a flat tyre and front bumper had come off one side. car insurance people were messing me about, took ages for them to decide whether my car could be repaired and to give me a courtesy car. in the end i had to get my dad to speak to them. but on friday i actually got my own car back.
just over a month ago i started my new job. its been odd working late shifts (typically 1-9.30pm) and some days there is very little to do so it really drags. they're also really mean with breaks and we only get half an hour, which isn't enough really especially on a busy day when you over-run and half your break is over before you've been on it, staff seem to not realise that booking someone in during your half hour break or as you are about to leave isn't on either. i have a lot of things i could bicker about to be honest... staff aren't very well trained and there can be a real bad atmosphere sometimes, but then on other occasions its really laid back and friendly. i'm spread between 2 different stores in the same shopping centre, which are staffed and run differently. my roa is such that one week i do 6 days in a row (and by the end of the 5th day i've just about had enough, but the 6th day is a sunday which is shorter and then i always have mondays off). the good news about the long week is the following week i get a long weekend as if its a bank holiday :)
this week i have been in the bluewater store being trained but an old uni friend! over the past 4 days i have watched surgery, learnt all about how surgery is performed and the different types of surgery and what makes people suitable and how to assess people and also how to manage people post-op. its been a steep learning curve and i have had to deal with some of the rarer things including a man fainting during his assessment...TWICE! that was pretty scary, and i hope it never happens again! anyways now i have had this training it seems my role will be dramatically different, as most laser optoms don't do ordinary sight tests and contact lens work. having spoken to the other laser optoms i am pretty certain i don't want to do that full time.
last weekend was pretty hardcore too. once more i got a weekend pass for frightfest. elected to miss most late night showings in favour of a faster journey home. i did however catch 22 of the films! ones well worth a watch are eden lake, time crimes, trailer park of terror, freakdog, dance of the dead, the chaser, midnight meat train, tokyo gore police, from within, autopsy, martyrs, the disappeared and death race. my personal favourites were time crimes, the chaser and midnight meat train. although i did think martyrs was probably the most powerful of all the films. it was kinda upsetting to watch (and i rarely find myself shocked by cinema) i think it was when the director began to talk about his depression and his set designer/effects guy taking his own life that it became even bleaker and more real. i'm definitely gonna try to see the ones i missed on dvd too.