I think I'm constitutionally incapable of going into a charity shop without buying books. Well, at least it wasn't a complete 'here are books, I must buy them' moment - I was planning to buy Master & Commander at some point anyway. I didn't actually get M&C, but I do now have the next two books in the series. They were training a couple of ( Read more... )

It's nearly 9am and I haven't been to sleep yet. I got home from work at 5.30ish (and I really need to do a 'Let Me Tell You About My New And Exciting Job' post at some point), tried to sleep for half an hour, finished reading Cold Comfort Farm (which my parents are really into. Occasionally they like to whisper, 'There'll be no butter in hell!' at ( Read more... )

So, on the downside, apparently I was just as shy and awkward yesterday as I thought I was, so no job. But I did finally get round to showing my parents the school magazine articles I'd done and my dad's offered to pay me to write some technical thingies for his company, so I might actually have some money left after paying for Cornwall and Trek- ( Read more... )

Well, crap. Turns out the TWOK showing for the Trek-fest won't finish til nearly midnight and there's no way my parents are gonna let me get the train home by myself at that time. Which is annoying, since it's one of my favourites. But I suppose with the amount I'll save on train fares, I can now go see more films on the Saturday and Sunday. ( Read more... )

There's a Saturday job going at my library. I applied for the same position... last year, I think? Anyway, I didn't get it then, but I'm hopeful that now I actually have some qualifications and have overcome my inability to write approvingly about myself, things might start moving. I'm just trying to thing of a non-crazy-person way of saying: ' ( Read more... )