What a fucking year. I'll be glad to see the back of it - 2009 can fuck off ( Read more... )

...under the bridge since my last entry. I suppose I've just been hesitant to formalise everything that's gone by in the last 8 months or so, despite there being good stuff and bad in not-quite-so-equal measure ( Read more... )

I had an interview with Pokemon UK a couple of weeks ago, for a translation position. I was a little optimistic, as my language abilities are pretty decent. However, I'd been put up twice for a Pokemon position before, by two other recruitment companies, and they'd turned me down both times (obviously), the first without even so much as an ( Read more... )

I was put up by a secretarial recruitment firm for a receptionist job at Dentsu Europe, and, despite being told I was a very good candidate, I didn't get it - mainly because they weren't convinced that I'd stay on long enough ( Read more... )

I do so love to rely on cliché to express my feelings - probably because I know there's no chance of misunderstanding. Anyway, the current cliché to describe my life, or, at least, the way I feel about it, is this: at the moment, I feel like a bird trapped in a cage. And that cage is poverty ( Read more... )

FUCKING HELL. FUCKING, FUCKING HELL ( Read more... )

It's coming up to 14:00, which is when my instructor comes to pick me up for my driving test, taking place at 15:05. But I'm not nervous; I've just had a nice lunch of scrambled eggs and a toasted sesame bagel with cream cheese, and have had a chance to sit back and relax for a little while ( Read more... )

Feeling much better since the last entry. Partly again down to caffeine, but things generally are looking up. I'm not a fatalist, so that helps, after a fashion.

Still a lot of work needed, though.

...I just feel lost right now.

Failed my driver's test. Three serious points. Fuckit. I was horribly nervous, hadn't had much sleep (despite trying to), and had drunk too much coffee.

Anyway, I've got another one booked in the next couple of weeks. It's got to be that one.