I got my results at dinner time. I passed! And with a merit too! I'm so relieved although I don't think it's quite sunk in yet. It's been a very long process, over two years it's taken me. So, Andrew Oakes, BA MSc I be! The fact that I don't graduate until July takes the shine off a little bit as I'll have forgotten all about it by then but still, ( Read more... )

Hooray for actually having time to write my LJ! Although, the reason I haven't written means that I haven't had much to write. The last week has been absolutely hell as I've been doing my dissertation. Pure evil. I'm surprised that I found so much to write about but it was still like pulling teeth to write it. Usually I settle into an essay an even ( Read more... )

Apparently I haven't updated in a week. I have a feeling that my entries will now become a little more frequent as a new web filtering system has come into effect at work and the onyl website I can not get onto is the Popjustice forums. They were the only thing getting me through the day! God forbid that I should actually do some proper work. ( Read more... )

Today is official me day! And it's bloody well deserved as well as this week has been a living hell. Work is horrendous what with me being the only Quality person left and there's an OfSTED visit on the way. In a perverse kind of way I'm thriving on working without a safety net because I know my stuff, I've just relied on my line manager but now I ( Read more... )

Delivery hell ended in a bunch of fucking lies in the end! Having waited for our furniture on Friday, Monday and Tuesday we rang up to find that on Friday our stuff had been sent to Argos and they clearly had no intention of delivering to us on the days they said. Written complaint here we come. So on Tuesday evening we went to Argos and carried ( Read more... )

Right, let's get the exciting news out of the way first - we're moving to Leeds! Our application was approved yesterday so unless my boss says she's never heard of me we'll be there in about a month. James poked me in bed this morning (oh get your mind's out of the gutter!) and said that he was getting up because he was too excited. I know what he ( Read more... )

Well the quiz went well I have to say. We came second (wowing the team with Human League knowledge) and James won a T-shirt at the bingo. He seemed very pleased with it at least. So it was a good night overall. I forgot to mention that earlier in the day we'd met up with James' Mum in Leeds who'd been to the hospital to sort out her RSI. SHe's been ( Read more... )

Well that didn't work did it? After saying how eager I was to write more often I seem to have gone the other way and started to write less. This is simply no good ( Read more... )

I've been meaning to write for a few days but I haven't managed to muster up the energy, mostly because I'm in essay hell! I'e never been one of these people that can just get it done. I hate writing essays, even though I thought that this time would be wonderfully as I started my research really early and I've found the topic quite interesting. ( Read more... )

Me and Sarah have just been saying how wonderful it would be if a musical started happening spontaneously in the office. A bit like the Buffy musical I guess. 'I'm fiiiiling paaaper' etc. It'd really perk our Friday up. We actually thought it was going to happen too as some loud big band music started up in the office next door. The joy of working ( Read more... )