Beginnings and endings
Hmmmm. Not a single woman on that list.
Last day of work has been interesting. Leaving drinks were sedate but lovely, with much tequila and gossip taking place. People have been so sweet today, with lots of random people I once worked with ages ago coming up to chat. And the Starbucks guys gave me free caramel macchiattos today, in honour of me being apparently fantastic. So that was nice.
Also nice has been my former boss/supervisor, who I always liked anyway (she's the one in charge of my largest client, rather than the supervisor who does my appraisals). She offered her services in signing off all of my forms because she noticed that my actual supervisor is off having meetings all day today (no skin off *my* nose, it saves awkward conversations) and wanted to make sure that I wasn't panicking. And has also agreed to be my reference. And she's lovely and bubbly and sweet and took me to meet Alan Rickman so, really, there's no bad here.
Also had my first Arabic lesson yesterday, and learnt more than I thought was possible in two hours. Entirety of the alphabet (individual letters and cursive (joined up) letters, and did you know that they look COMPLETELY DIFFERENT depending on where they are in the word? And bear no resemblance to the printed letters? Yup. Good times.), greetings and small-talk, introductions, vocatives, and how to fend off an overly-amorous former State Department employee over here doing his Masters and about one overly-friendly comment away from getting my boot in his face. Why is it always me??
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Giving up internets for a while while broadband is reconnected. Should hopefully have a phoneline this evening, so internets to follow soon.
Last day of work has been interesting. Leaving drinks were sedate but lovely, with much tequila and gossip taking place. People have been so sweet today, with lots of random people I once worked with ages ago coming up to chat. And the Starbucks guys gave me free caramel macchiattos today, in honour of me being apparently fantastic. So that was nice.
Also nice has been my former boss/supervisor, who I always liked anyway (she's the one in charge of my largest client, rather than the supervisor who does my appraisals). She offered her services in signing off all of my forms because she noticed that my actual supervisor is off having meetings all day today (no skin off *my* nose, it saves awkward conversations) and wanted to make sure that I wasn't panicking. And has also agreed to be my reference. And she's lovely and bubbly and sweet and took me to meet Alan Rickman so, really, there's no bad here.
Also had my first Arabic lesson yesterday, and learnt more than I thought was possible in two hours. Entirety of the alphabet (individual letters and cursive (joined up) letters, and did you know that they look COMPLETELY DIFFERENT depending on where they are in the word? And bear no resemblance to the printed letters? Yup. Good times.), greetings and small-talk, introductions, vocatives, and how to fend off an overly-amorous former State Department employee over here doing his Masters and about one overly-friendly comment away from getting my boot in his face. Why is it always me??
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Giving up internets for a while while broadband is reconnected. Should hopefully have a phoneline this evening, so internets to follow soon.