Life on the work front has been... a bit weird ( Read more... )

Recently, I've not been having a good time getting to grips with my feelings. It's been a bit weird because I don't have the money to pay for my therapy, so that's stopped. I don't have that any more. Also, I'm doing a lot more and a lot of it has been stuff that I don't particularly want to think about most of the time. I'm starting to realise ( Read more... )

I also heard back from the social work course I applied for. They let me take the verbal reasoning test and then decided not to take my application. I'm disappointed, but also relieved. I've been feeling that I've been required to make too many decisions without enough information and it's been bugging me. I'll probably need an extra year to ( Read more... )

In the end I took the job. The people at Beanstalk were very nice about it and I feel a lot better. They told me it was OK and I don't feel so guilty about it. Anyway, I've been under a lot of pressure in the last few weeks to do something and get some work, whether it's direct pressure from the Job Centre, or indirect pressure just from my ( Read more... )

Well, I have some good news and some bad news. Like with most things, the two are interlinked and utterly not idependent ( Read more... )

I had my first day at work today. It was a six hour shift from 12 until 6. I was pretty scared about it, but thanks to L's support, I felt calm about it and managed to get a really good night's sleep, dropping off at 10 and waking up at 5. I like how the house is peaceful at that time, although dad was still up, having stayed up through the ( Read more... )

So, as part of my drive to get a new job and get some teaching experience, I advertised on the internet for physics tuition. I didn't get many replies, but I did get one reply from a guy who wanted someone to help with their on-line tuition business ( Read more... )

The really hectic pace of the last couple of weeks started to settle down before picking up again ( Read more... )

Today I went to Oxford for the interview for the University of Oxford's Disability Advisory Service (DAS for short ( Read more... )

Everything remains hectic at the moment. No matter what I try to do, I can't seem to get it to come under control. Part of it seems to be hormonal. For both the oestrogen and testosterone, most of the emotional effects start at a low level and the physical effects start at a higher one. But oestrogen has one effect at very high level, which is ( Read more... )