It's already been a month since my last entry. My colleague is still on sick leave and just prolonged for another month. October is usually a quiet month for us, but this year we have 6 visits going on (luckily another colleague is helping, otherwise I'd be going crazy). Something might change in the not so distant future, but until I see it, I'm ( Read more... )

I feel like I should write more, but I always get lazy. Things are awfully busy at work, with official visits and poor management decisions making things worse, so I don't really want to sit down in front of a computer in the evenings. But I've been working on something non fannish lately, hopefully I'll be able to finish it ( Read more... )

I finally caved in and created a LinkedIn profile. Like it always happens with the things I put off and off and off, it ended up being not as bad as I initially thought. Now I just need to add contacts and keep my eyes open for potential opportunities ( Read more... )

Thank God I was able to take a week off last week, because this summer is turning out to be even worse than last summer. I really can't do this anymore, I just can't. And on top of the work craziness, I also had some family emergencies and that's just too much ( Read more... )

I am so, so tired. Things at work have been so busy, I haven't even had the strength to organise my holidays. I haven't booked anything yet and at one point I was so tempted to just spend two weeks napping on the couch, until a colleague told me "You can't do that after 3 months of lockdown!" Which is true. I found a few options, I just need to ( Read more... )

So many pictures and quotes and general fandom squee from Sherlocked. I'm sure if I'd gone, I would have spent a small fortune on pictures. Not on photo shoots with the actors (I always look awful in photos), I mean I would buy ALL THE PROMO PICS. Especially these. Predictable? Who, me ( Read more... )

Ugh, another job offer that is exactly what I want to do and for which I even have the required experience. The downside? It's abroad, so I'll never get shortlisted because I don't already live there. Sigh. I applied, but I'm not holding my breath.

Anyway. It's Friday evening, I have less than 30 minutes until I can go home and I'm having piadina ( Read more... )

Okay, I've come to the conclusion that, to avoid getting mad every single day at work, I'll just have to assume that everyone is an idiot. Everyone. The latest example: students who enroll for a school year or semester in the USA need to send us a copy of their immunisation history, we translate it and forward it to our American partner. Said ( Read more... )

Just the other day I was looking at job offers in Switzerland because a) I live only an hour away from the Swiss border and b) getting a Swiss work permit is relatively easy for EU citizens. And then Switzerland goes and "blocks" work permits for EU citizens. Just my luck.

I'll just cheer myself up staring at these pics of my latest TV crush.

( Lino Guanciale, Italian actor )

These PHD comic strips pretty much sum up my life.


( Read more... )