update
Am really missing my own PC, which explains why I've not been posting here so much recently - I just don't get the time or privacy to update on this computer of my parents'. Still, things could be worse I guess, lets see if I can remember what's happened since I last updated.
- Went out the Saturday before last (14th) with Steven, Ceris, and Ceris' friend. Was actually quite a pleasant evening, the rain held off (which I'll come onto in a bit..), and was quite a laid back, non-eventful night; which makes a good change. Ended up in the Cabot as usual, although apart from Kathryn I didn't run into anybody else I knew that normally hangs out there on a Saturday night.
- And then I must mention the rain of course, seeing as it's been the wettest UK summer on record. It's just been almost relentless, there's been a couple of nice days when it's been warm and sunny, but never more than one or two days at a time if that, before the dark clouds cut across the sky again and start pelting down their raindrops on us! We're lucky where we are though, not being any rivers or anything, as much of the rest of the country have had some pretty bad flooding. Started off with Hull, Doncaster and much of the rest of Yorkshire being the worst off, before spreading to the midlands and most recently Gloucester and Tewksbury having been the concentrates of much TV news coverage. Fingers crossed though it's getting a little better than it has been, it's nearly August now so we could do with a bit of good weather, even if it is a British summer!
- Had my interview in Bristol last Friday. Found the place ok, but got absolutely drenched on my way from the station in the torrential rain. I did have a little time to dry off in the reception area, but it wasn't the best of times to get absolutely soaked. I don't think the interview itself went particularly well, I was waaay too nervous, and I couldn't really settle down like I think I did in my last one with Air Traffic Control, or even in my viva say. I was quite happy with some of my answers, but I don't know really, I don't think I was in the right mood - if it was a couple of days earlier I think I would have been ok. I wasn't giving especially short answers I don't think, but it ended much sooner than I expected and threw me off guard a little bit. I suppose I was just expecting many more questions. I haven't heard back yet, but they were interviewing people this week too so I can't read too much into that. At the end then I walked back to the station and didn't really care then that I was getting even more soaked as I just wanted to get back home.
- The queen was in Weston that same day, and as my mum was going down to the end of the road I thought I'd go along too. Only saw her for a couple of seconds as we weren't in the best of positions, but hey.
- Have had some quite bizarre dreams recently, one in particular that was quite vivid. A few random people I know were up these ladders, some of which had their bottom resting on the sides of the other ladders, and all were up on the roof of my house. As I was coming down of the roof I felt really giddy and slipped, and was left leaning head first off the edge of the roof with the bottom rungs of two of the ladders in each of my hands - basically if I were to let go then the whole lot would fall. It was like that for a few seconds, before I was able to pull myself back up and put the ladders back in place - all without the people up them really noticing. Which has some kind of meaning to me. Then as I went to go down I was swinging off this lower ladder and subsequently landed in this thorn bush. As I made my way back in the house I had these massive thorns - curved and about the size of the palm of a hand (very much like the raptor claws in Jurassic Park) - and they were sticking into my legs, about eight of them and much blood on my legs. As I pulled them out then the blood flowed more and more, and was basically reminiscent of my days of self-harm.
- Back to reality though, I have been offered another job - for the NHS in Bath, which I would quite like to do. So that's a good positive on the job front, though I don't want to get my hopes up too much. It's a week on Monday.
- Quite looking forward to the weekend - probably going to see Weston play Rovers tomorrow, though not the main Rovers team. And probably out in the evening, not sure I can afford it but will see.