Me! From the outside! I have horsed around and around and around. First lesson as leader. More later, probably.

Today I went to work: Yay! And started documenting a disaster recovery process! I have a perfectly valid reason to write the words "Don't panic" in large friendly letters. Then this afternoon I went to the stables and managed to be useful and learn new things.

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I dragged myself into work today more out of stubbornness and cabin fever than anything else, but then I got myself to the stables for some much-missed equine communion.

( A little about work, but mostly the horses. Warning: it gets a bit slashy towards the end. )

Made it to the stables this afternoon for a conservative 1 hour session that didn't involve any heavy lifting, unless you count holding a quarter of a horse at a time. This time I left before I started to limp, but still felt I'd contributed something without wasting anyone's time, and yet learned things. Nice combo that.

zebra363 I was thinking of you ( Read more... )

This horse therapy thing is working out just as well as I'd hoped, and really quite quickly. ( Warning: horse content )

I spent a couple of hours at the RDA today. I had a very helpful talk with the president, who told me ever so gently that everything works fine, and that it only takes a couple of weeks for new volunteers to get to know the horses, and that was OK. My experience last week (where there was a serious amount of confusion about who was who and what ( Read more... )

I swear I didn't want this to happen, and I hope I can deal with the consequences. It happened much faster than I feared it might. I just can't help myself :-(

( Late night rant warning, and high levels of horse content. Hey, it makes a change from cats. )

I seemed to pack a lot into today, for which I'm pretty sure I'll be punished soon, but it included several varieties of good news. ( Tech, vet, med, hippo )

I visited the local RDA branch today to get the next step in volunteering underway. My application for a Working With Children card has now been signed by the secretary, and I've been to the post office to be formally identified and--joy of joys--photographed for my new ID. It seems like a reasonably large co-incidence that the man in front of me ( Read more... )

I am smashed and may fishinh thes posgt later.

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EDIT: No, I think I'll leave it exactly as written last night, if only to mark the terrifying realisation that I don't remember writing parts of it, and clearly I was in no state to perform even rudimentary editing ( Read more... )