Having maintained radio silence since April, here follows an absolutely enormous post. Things ought to be different next year, touch wood...

[That was the year that was [cut for being bloody enormous]]1.What did you do in 2016 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

It’s been a fairly quiet week, but not without its successes.

I got through a decent amount of work at both jobs, and managed to refrain from saying anything rude to some people who were barely competent in theirs, namely:
a) the two people in one job who, given their job titles, presumably had slightly more up to date knowledge of DPA and FOI ( Read more... )

It appears that in my last post I was (perhaps naively) hoping to find time to post some reviews this week. How does it go?: the best way to make the gods laugh is to tell them your plans. ;)

( Cut for work-talk, about half and half bitching and trying to find the bright side )

Looking back at my journal, it seems that I’ve not updated since the end of February, which makes sense, since I’ve been pretty busy both with work and with play.

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We've been back a few days, but this is the first time I've had the time, energy and peace and quiet to write an update about our visit to York for my birthday.

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Three things, in ascending order of significance, rather than in chronological order ( Read more... )

It's been a pretty good start to the year, albeit rather a busy one.

So far, it's gone like this:

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Proper update later/sometime, as the start to the year has had quite a lot going on, but just a quick post now for squeeing that I have an interview next week for the job mentioned a post or two back...

Hurrah!

I have loads of other (technically more important) things I need to do today, but here comes the Year meme, because it's time sensitive and because I felt like it. ;)

( 39 questions behind the cut )

Ye gods, but I'm tired. Probably because of the combination of a fairly hectic week, very little sleep last night and having given blood this afternoon (since I was in central London and my PM commitment got cancelled ( Read more... )