So, I decided to take my own advice and go for a new job. There is something that looks interesting in another department that is basically stakeholder management, which sounds right up my street. It's weird because I am by nature an introvert. If I never had to deal with real people for the rest of my life I would be very, very happy. However, I ( Read more... )

Still having a serious attack of 'what is the point of my job, exactly?' interspersed with 'that was quite fun although I'm not sure what good it did the universe'. *sigh* I'm not even sure that changing jobs would help because at least I can argue that working for the University is good in and of itself *double sigh ( Read more... )

Sunday, we tried our freecycle table for the first time at church. The person who is supposed to be running it with me was away - wtf? Still, we put out the few things that had been donated and they all went, so... But part of the point is to try to connect with the surrounding community, which we're not going to do unless we go outside with the ( Read more... )

I'm ready to start reorganising Mannerley, which at this point just means moving the content of the chapters around so that things happen in the (new) right order. But actually sitting down and doing this half-hour job is proving challenging. Today. I will do it today. Probably...

I have another prompt from Black Ship Books, which looks ( Read more... )

I have washing on the line and the back door is open. The sun is shining and I have a whole week off work to look forward to. Life isn't too shabby, right now ( Read more... )