Baked another loaf of sourdough this morning, so the house smells all bready and wonderful. I'm really liking this bread making hobby - I get to really take my anger out on the dough for about 20 minutes (four angry songs like The Used or The Blackout or, if my iPod decides to be a prat, the Comic Relief version of Islands In The Stream...), then I ( Read more... )

Today was my last day at placement. Spent most of the day working through the database, inputting data and plotting a now-forgotten novel in my head. It's been a good six weeks - I've been kept busy, and I've actually felt useful. I think I might actually miss working there, in that big open-plan office. I'll miss the fast computers (I'm liking ( Read more... )

Not a great day - I mean, placement was okay, but it's just felt like a crappy day. I was still pissed off about something that's, thankfully, all sorted now; I overslept; I wasn't quite sure what I was supposed to be doing, and I thought it was Friday, which it wasn't. And then I got a slightly scary text from uni that, in the context of what ( Read more... )

Getting really peed off about the washing machine at the moment - it's been chewing up all our clothes for ages now (partly because Mum tries to fit two loads of washing into the machine at once, like that kid from Outnumbered), but now I've just discovered that my favourite Beatles top is full of bleach-splattered machine-chewed holes. Great. Now ( Read more... )

The office building where I am doing my placement is near a park, and me being me (and not having had a proper walk in a few days, even though I walked round the big shopping centre twice last night), I decided to walk to the park on my lunch hour, sit on a bench and eat my lunch. Okay, so it wasn't really walking, but it was being outside in ( Read more... )

My six week Work Placement started today. I was terrified yesterday, and this morning when we got stuck in a horrible traffic jam on the way there. But it's actually been a lot of fun. Well, more interesting than fun, I think. As it was my first day, I had a mini-tour of the building, then I pretty much just got on with the work set for me. There's ( Read more... )