Thursday, July 12, 2007
Better late than never...
Wow! It's been over a month since I last blogged!
Part of the reason is that my close family all seem so close by. Ali is in Gurnsey, Mum's in Oxford and I talk to her on the phone, and Dad's still in NZ but I chat to him all the time on Google Mail.
BUT, there is so much reason to blog. There are lots of people who don't know what I'm up to now!
Well, I took the job with the recruitment company and have worked over two months for them now. I'm coming up to my 3 month pay rise at the end of this month, which will be cool. I'm hoping to go up to around 23 or 25k. That'd be a big raise, but I think my boss is pretty happy with my work. Just have to make these next three weeks count!
So far I've written a proposal for London schools regarding intervention programmes for kids at risk of failing GCSE, along with all my usual stuff. That was the most fun, cos I had to research it from scratch. My boss also had me doing a whole lot of cold calling for a while, which I hated (sales calls, effectively), but we talked about it and I don't have to do it now. Basically I'm my boss's PA, but I do more interesting stuff than most PAs :)
I've made some really cool friends here, chiefly this awesome Canadian guy called Matt (coincidence?) who reminds me a lot of my other Matt! Miss you by the way, except there's no way you're reading this, seeing as you don't even use email...
I've kept going to the theatre even though I can't afford it... it's just so cool! Most recently I saw an acrobatic troupe from Australia called, originally, Acrobat. They did this amazing set of three solo performances, performed mostly naked or semi-naked with minimal theatrics. It was very cool. Bleak, tragi-comic, striking, at times painful (naked rope climbing anyone?), with amazing tumbling!
In my own world of fun, I've found a climbing buddy called Rich (another coincidence?) who kicks my ass on indoor stuff. Which is good, as it gives me a challenge to keep up with him. Climbing is pretty damn expensive here though, at £10.50 a pop. I go to this AMAZING place called the Castle. It was built by the Victorians as a pump station. Of course, being the Victorians, they built a pump station in the shape of Stirling Castle... so there's a massive space inside with three floors of climbing, including some stuff that goes all the way up. Plus they're seeking permission to put in repelling/abseiling down the outsides of the towers, which would be so cool!
Alright folks, next time I blog I might have some big news, so stay tuned!
Take it easy :)
Part of the reason is that my close family all seem so close by. Ali is in Gurnsey, Mum's in Oxford and I talk to her on the phone, and Dad's still in NZ but I chat to him all the time on Google Mail.
BUT, there is so much reason to blog. There are lots of people who don't know what I'm up to now!
Well, I took the job with the recruitment company and have worked over two months for them now. I'm coming up to my 3 month pay rise at the end of this month, which will be cool. I'm hoping to go up to around 23 or 25k. That'd be a big raise, but I think my boss is pretty happy with my work. Just have to make these next three weeks count!
So far I've written a proposal for London schools regarding intervention programmes for kids at risk of failing GCSE, along with all my usual stuff. That was the most fun, cos I had to research it from scratch. My boss also had me doing a whole lot of cold calling for a while, which I hated (sales calls, effectively), but we talked about it and I don't have to do it now. Basically I'm my boss's PA, but I do more interesting stuff than most PAs :)
I've made some really cool friends here, chiefly this awesome Canadian guy called Matt (coincidence?) who reminds me a lot of my other Matt! Miss you by the way, except there's no way you're reading this, seeing as you don't even use email...
I've kept going to the theatre even though I can't afford it... it's just so cool! Most recently I saw an acrobatic troupe from Australia called, originally, Acrobat. They did this amazing set of three solo performances, performed mostly naked or semi-naked with minimal theatrics. It was very cool. Bleak, tragi-comic, striking, at times painful (naked rope climbing anyone?), with amazing tumbling!
In my own world of fun, I've found a climbing buddy called Rich (another coincidence?) who kicks my ass on indoor stuff. Which is good, as it gives me a challenge to keep up with him. Climbing is pretty damn expensive here though, at £10.50 a pop. I go to this AMAZING place called the Castle. It was built by the Victorians as a pump station. Of course, being the Victorians, they built a pump station in the shape of Stirling Castle... so there's a massive space inside with three floors of climbing, including some stuff that goes all the way up. Plus they're seeking permission to put in repelling/abseiling down the outsides of the towers, which would be so cool!
Alright folks, next time I blog I might have some big news, so stay tuned!
Take it easy :)
# posted by Doug @ 20:50 
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Oh, so you are still writing here! I'm here because I'm in my office not-working + I'd checked all the other blogs (scraping the barrel...)
Anyway, it's good to hear from you Dougie! Sounds like you're having fun and getting almost-successful - that research stuff should be pretty handy on your CV! How's the modelling career (heh)? And what's your big news? Do you have any? You can't just leave us hanging like that!
Love K
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Anyway, it's good to hear from you Dougie! Sounds like you're having fun and getting almost-successful - that research stuff should be pretty handy on your CV! How's the modelling career (heh)? And what's your big news? Do you have any? You can't just leave us hanging like that!
Love K
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