You know, just when I think I'm really doing well with this whole posting frequently lark, I go and ruin it. Every time I agree to work more than 10 days in a stretch, I get to the end and think "God, I'm not doing that again". Will some please remind me of this when the beginning of November rolls around and the begging phone calls start rolling ( Read more... )

To all fellow Brits, and adopted as such:

This year is census year! Which will be my first official census I get to fill in as a grown up, or rather, the first one I can put whatever crap I like on without my mother vetoing. So the question for you all is thus:

Do you Jedi, or do you not?

The force be with you may it.

I gave in and am currently off work sick. I was desperate to keep going (I don't want a bad sick record and oh, the guilt the guilt of knowing how hard the ward is atm and how impossible and stressful it is to work one down) but they sent me home yesterday and I've taken today and tomorrow off too. I need a break ( Read more... )

A year ago today I woke up, switched on my television and was confronted with the image everyone suspected was coming, but hoped could be avoided. I remember so clearly staring at the image of that bus, phoning my mum at work to tell her what happened, and listening as she begged me not to move to London. Because London is where bombs go off, the ( Read more... )