In need of a weekend
Can anyone give me some advice on MP3 players? Although my old but reliable thing has been good to me I can no longer seem to update it. I'd quite like a bigger one anyway but they seem to be so expensive, so while I'm happy to go over to the Apple darkside, especially with 120GB IPods available, the prices just seem a little high for my liking. Sadly you can't buy smaller ones new anywhere, I just want something that's biggr than my 20GB one! I'm looking to spend about £150 if possible.
In my last update I forgot to write about my exciting news. I have a job interview! Funnily, it's for the job at Halifax Central Library which I'd given up hope of hearing about, being as the closing date was well over a month ago. It's good news but it's peanuts pay. The only way I could take it would be if they offered me the higher end of the scale, and even that's £14K and I have travel costs on top. The other thing is that the York Uni job which I really want has the interview date a week after this one which could leave me in a tricky position. I have no choice but to wait and see and just take it as it comes really. It's promising either way though I guess.
We went for a nice meal last night at Tompopo. I had some kind of beef thing which was very nice. I went Vietnamese this time, very good. I was also tempted by the Vietnamese coffee which has condensed milk in it! Next time it will be mine. I think I forgot to mention that I went out for lunch with work last week too, to Little Tokyo. I do love it so. Nom nom noms all round I think.
Continuing James' streak of luck, his work were celebrating 60 years of legal aid yesterday. Not only was there cake (!) but James won the raffle too. So our house has a load of nice smellies in it. He also won the poetry competition and got a bottle of wine! I've noticed that he had bought a lottery ticket for Saturday funnily enough....
I finished my book last night. It was 'Then We Came To The End' by Joshua Ferris. It was a good read and as it's set in an office, identifying with is quite easy. Not a lot happens though, and for that reason I doubt I'll remember much about it in a year. It was interestingly written though, in that, although there's some third person perspective, it's mostly written by an anonymous office worker. They talk about 'us' as lot but never identify themselves, and yet it's not first person narrative. Very odd but it did work.
In my last update I forgot to write about my exciting news. I have a job interview! Funnily, it's for the job at Halifax Central Library which I'd given up hope of hearing about, being as the closing date was well over a month ago. It's good news but it's peanuts pay. The only way I could take it would be if they offered me the higher end of the scale, and even that's £14K and I have travel costs on top. The other thing is that the York Uni job which I really want has the interview date a week after this one which could leave me in a tricky position. I have no choice but to wait and see and just take it as it comes really. It's promising either way though I guess.
We went for a nice meal last night at Tompopo. I had some kind of beef thing which was very nice. I went Vietnamese this time, very good. I was also tempted by the Vietnamese coffee which has condensed milk in it! Next time it will be mine. I think I forgot to mention that I went out for lunch with work last week too, to Little Tokyo. I do love it so. Nom nom noms all round I think.
Continuing James' streak of luck, his work were celebrating 60 years of legal aid yesterday. Not only was there cake (!) but James won the raffle too. So our house has a load of nice smellies in it. He also won the poetry competition and got a bottle of wine! I've noticed that he had bought a lottery ticket for Saturday funnily enough....
I finished my book last night. It was 'Then We Came To The End' by Joshua Ferris. It was a good read and as it's set in an office, identifying with is quite easy. Not a lot happens though, and for that reason I doubt I'll remember much about it in a year. It was interestingly written though, in that, although there's some third person perspective, it's mostly written by an anonymous office worker. They talk about 'us' as lot but never identify themselves, and yet it's not first person narrative. Very odd but it did work.