Week three of my rebuild and recuperate plan went pretty well, by which I mean that I got an appropriate amount of paid work done, including hunting down a new laptop, caught up on a couple of overdue chores and have managed to take a third consecutive weekend off. I think that may be more weekends off this month than I managed in the whole of 2016 ( Read more... )

The first 'week' back at work turned out to be mercifully low-impact. There wasn't much of anything urgent in job-I'm-keeping, and I managed to sort things out in job-I-quit to the point where I was able to send a handover email on Friday (only a week after my official leaving date) and go in to return my laptop, keys, pass etc. This meant that I ( Read more... )

Having maintained radio silence since April, here follows an absolutely enormous post. Things ought to be different next year, touch wood...

[That was the year that was [cut for being bloody enormous]]1.What did you do in 2016 that you'd never done before ( Read more... )

The end of the year is nearly upon us, and I have managed to find a few slivers of time today, in between bits of my 'the flat shall be (mostly) clean and tidy for the new year' frenzy to draft answers for 2015 to the 39 questions in the year meme.

( Read more... )

Since I’m coming to the end of my break from (paid) work (five and a bit days off over the Christmas period is almost triple what I managed last year!), it’s about time for a long-overdue update. The Christmas holiday has been pleasant enough: we spent the day itself at my sister’s place and, after a pause on the Saturday, the Sunday evening at A’s ( Read more... )

I have loads of other (technically more important) things I need to do today, but here comes the Year meme, because it's time sensitive and because I felt like it. ;)

( 39 questions behind the cut )

It's been ages since I've had time to update:  I've had so much work on and so many other things to do. Right now I have five sets of minutes outstanding...but at least I have only one meeting booked for the last week of term, next week, and no volunteering days, medical appointments or social/cultural events. Finally, a bit of space to breathe and ( Read more... )

It's sometimes quite amusing when you read back your last entry to see where to pick up. It seems I was expecting this week to be a lull between two busy weeks. Not so much...

The aforementioned Queer Alternative cabaret was an excellent night, with lots of very good acts and only two ropey ones (which shall remain nameless) lower down the bill. ( Read more... )

This will mostly be a slightly longer write-up of Friday night's gig, as F***book isn't really the place for proper reviews. Also, nezumi_sama isn't on there, so I should put at least that one photo up here.

( Cut for length, photo and possible (non-graphic) sexual assault trigger )

As ever, it's been a while. Main events of any significance (at least to me) are as follows:

( Cut for length. Content as per title and tags )