So, which way do you see the dancer turning?

So maudlinrose and I were talking after dinner and we decided that we're actually pretty grateful for the year or two after university working in shitty jobs.

From early 2005 - mid 2006, I worked at the Bolton Hotel as a cleaner. I'd just washed out of teacher's college and had no idea what I wanted to do with ( Read more... )

The cats got to the vet today for their annual check ups. They were both well-behaved - Tobias, in particular garnered a number of compliments - and while we had trouble getting Jemima into the box at home, at the vet's she was absolutely fine. They're both in excellent condition, but we need to get a fleabomb and some Advantage, mostly for ( Read more... )

The last couple of days have been exercises in frustration. Not that any one big thing was the particular cause of this, but lots of little things accumulated. I was home by about 10.30pm, talked to my flatmates for a little bit and went to bed to read a book for a wee while before sleeping. Come 1.15am, I've finished my book (The Year of the ( Read more... )

I am starting to get used to getting up around six in order to catch the 6.36am Wilton to go to the gym before work. Mum reckons that it takes about three weeks for a habit to form, so I'm a third of the way there. After another two, it might become easier. Either that, or I will have also formed a habit of going to bed an hour or more earlier ( Read more... )