3 posts tagged “work”
As I am stuck in an office. Yep the summer holidays from Uni mean one thing - getting a job to pay for next years' fees. But at least I can blog.
If I sent you an invite for Saturday (and you haven't already replied) can you drop me an email please... just so I know how much gin is required ;)
TTFN
I finished term exhausted but happy - the first year is nearly over and soon I will no longer be just a first year. Big things are happening at college at the moment re. the structure of our course (on which I was invited to panel meetings to represent the first year along with 3 others) so more on that when it happens.
But money - or lack of - dictates I must work the holidays (and fit in my two essays somewhere) so I am back working in the City for three weeks. I'm back where I am been before but this time in the relatively quiet backwater of compliance. What a change from the trading floor. No shouting or swearing or liberty taking. In fact most people speak at whisper level if they do speak - people don't really talk to one another at all here, strange. That said, everyone is nice, my boss especially. He actually uses the two magic words - please and thank you - repeatedly. My hours are not crazy either but that also means less pay and I need every penny right now.
I've been blogging quite a lot the past few days over at Littlespaces so I won't bore you with more house related stuff here...
My wish list for my holiday pay include:
Paying off some of my overdraft
An A3 Epson 2400 printer
A roll of giclee paper (for the printer) to make fine art prints with
Text books on Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Lightroom by Martin Evening
A big book on Illustrator CS3, which I plan to teach myself from - any recommended titles?
A pair of perfect work shoes
A 'FI/Icon' dining room light in orange or pinky-red by Ferruccio Laviani for Kartell
Vintage 1960s/1970s wallpaper
Two (colours not chosen yet) 'La Marie' chairs by Phillipe Starck for Kartell
Two white 'Componibili 2 Element' bedside cabinets (very Space 1999) by Anna Castelli Ferrieri for Kartell
I better get back to earning that money then ;)
Urg. I hate it when you've been slogging away all week for the wunches and then you look at your own personal to-do list at home and it's as long as your bosses at work. Nevermind, only another two weeks to go and then I'll be going back to University for a rest ;)
Made the decision that if it fits into my timetable I'll do Japanese next term. If it doesn't I'll just wimp out and do Italian. I'm not one for making life harder.
Things I must do:
Arrange dinner with Pog, Emerald Empress, and Cheapy. It's been Far Too Long ladies. We have cheap flights to NYC, jobs, Uni acceptances and such to chat about! A burlesque tea sounds fab Cheapy, when and where?
Gamba's leaving do! Looking forward to that one.
Dinner with 'the mentor' Caz (that should be a new reality TV show "You're mentored!") - you up for a dinner in a couple of weeks in town after work/Uni?
Go to IKEA. I am looking forward to that (I am strange and half Swedish so it's to be expected.) Bubb and I are going to look at new Kitchens, dead exciting.
On the house front we've finished our plans in our 3D CAD program and it looks impressive (NB: Miss Sith please see what is on the projector.) In reality we have finally got the mortgage approved on the place (there is a backlog of new buyers apparently) and we are waiting on the vendors solictor for a completion date.
Hopefully *everything crossed* we shall have our very own two bed flat within a 5 minute walk of Shad Thames in precisely 4-5 weeks. Hurrah! We have already found a good local pub (complete with 'salt of the earth' publicans, a dying art/person I feel) where we plan a moving-in bash.
Sort through evilBaying. A large pile of secondhand and new photography goods came last night. I need to sort and play with them. A result for me on customs for once (this month it's Customs 2 Bobble 1), my new light meter (v. posh) snuck through from Hong Kong with nary a customs charge and only took three days to arrive. Result.
Reading. Start reading my coursework and stop reading Philip Pullman novels. I finished 'The Amber Spyglass' last night and it's the first time I've ever cried on a tube over a book. Great, great writing. It wasn't the ending I sobbed over either. Without giving too much away it was the part where Lee and Hester are 'reunited'.
I really hope they do not fuck up the movie (part of me wants it never to be made) but the fact that they have cast Nicole Kidman as Mrs Coulter gives me slight hope. Why oh why can't Peter 'LoTR' Jackson do it?
