Beware of the fridge ( Read more... )

I've spent approximately 6 hourse over the past three days applying for jobs with large publishing houses and media agencies. And that is not including the time it took me to whip up a CV and write cover letters. I've managed to apply for 6 jobs total ( Read more... )

My brother's getting married in a couple of weeks so we booked a lot of time off to come to the wedding in Lincoln and hang out a bit. God knows we both need some relaxation time ( Read more... )

1. Wait in excessively long queue, behind large number of people in suits placing ridiculously large and overly-personalized orders ( Read more... )

I managed pique and chaine turns today - *and* I managed them in some quite difficult combinations. I really struggled with these yesterday but today they all actually looked like dancing so I'm justifiably proud of myself! It's funny how things just seem to click into place. My ankles and my "core" muscles are killing me though. I'm sure I'll hate ( Read more... )

I was a complete slacker and pigged out last weekend, so the results on the scale weren't exactly brilliant on Wednesday...I gained for the 2nd week in a row and was up a total of 1.4lbs. Ugh. I felt like a big, fat blob...actually, I'd been feeling like that the whole time I was pigging out and so hopefully it put an end to that kind of behaviour ( Read more... )

...you travel home wearing nothing but a leotard, some pink ballet tights and a shawl tied around your waist (because someone stole your clothes while you were in dance class) and no one stares.

Feeling very somber today. Four women who worked for my NGO were attacked and killed by the Taliban in Afghanistan this morning. A fifth is seriously ill in hospital. I didn’t know any of the women personally but there is a very reflective mood here in my office today. I can’t imagine what their families are feeling. The whole incident is really ( Read more... )

...because literally days after I bitched about not getting any writing assignments I had two pleasant surprises this week with the writing thing. The first was one of my mini articles is getting printed in one of my industry's newsletters. Granted, it's only a crappy newsletter but it will be my very first clip. Hooray! I saw my name in print for ( Read more... )

I'm trying to be more positive these days but I seem like I'm up against so much. It's 6 month review time at work and I was pulled in for mine on Monday. All in all, I received a lot of positive comments. My bosses love the work I'm doing with the donors and they couldn't praise my writing enough...when I asked to perhaps do some courses to help ( Read more... )