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[girlofprey]

• My holiday starts tomorrow. E3 starts the day after. I can remember about E3, but it doesn't feel like I always remember about the holiday. Although to be fair I've not been entirely sure what day it is. I haven't been sleeping great this week, and I can't tell if it's the weather, excitement about E3, and the weird apprehension I get sometimes when a holiday's coming up. Not wanting to get ahead of myself. Also I haven't done a breast exam in a while. That's probably part of it. Also, to be fair, I'm aware I might not see a lot of daylight next week due to E3.



• They keep reporting 'leaks' of a Superman game to be revealed at E3, and I can't bear it. I just want to wait to see if it's officially announced. I don't want my hopes up if they're just going to be crushed.



• My train times changed a while back, and my boss and I had discussed before that about changing my hours from 1.30 till 7.00 to 12.30 till 6:00 - it wasn't very convenient for me before, but it is now. But he says he doesn't want to officially do it until we/I know for certain that those hours are better for me - so he's just been telling me to go at 6, to see what it's like. Every day. So currently I'm working 4 and a half hours a day and getting paid for 5 and a half hours a day. Which is amazing for me, frankly. But I feel a bit bad about it. Sometimes.



• Audrey and Gail don't seem terribly worried about David. They're definitely finding other things to occupy their minds with.

Comments

[slemslempike]

Do you think working the new hours would be better for you? I mean, not as good as being paid for an extra hour, but would you prefer to work that little bit earlier?

[girlofprey]

I would, I think. It's funny, because the train I can now get home actually takes a little longer than the one I used to, and I was allowed to leave work early to try to get it, which I don't need to now. So I leave work about an hour/fourty-five minutes earlier, but I only get home about half an hour earlier. And I would need to get the train an hour earlier in the morning for the earlier time. So I would essentially be losing half an hour from my day, in fact. But I feel really guilty leaving work early to catch my train at around 7 o'clock, which wouldn't happen if I could work till 6 and left at 6, and we close reception at 6 o'clock anyway now, so after that I'm basically just sat in the office doing nothing, watching the emails in case anything comes in, so I can reply and say 'someone will do something about this in the morning'. Which is boring and I'd rather not do that.

And coming in an hour earlier would mean I could do other stuff - at the moment, the morning women basically start at 7am and finish at 12:30, and then we have someone from the post room cover that hour in between them finishing and me starting. So if I came in at 12:30pm, I could just immediately take over from them and not need that cover. Because the post room people aren't good, and there have been complaints about some of their attitudes apparently. Plus I could actually see the morning women, which would be nice, and do a bit of a handover, instead of just leaving each other notes in the book. On the other hand - I thought the idea of me coming in early would be for me to do that hour instead of the post room people, but apparently my manager thinks it might be more useful for me to be in the office, learning how to do stuff, or checking in with other things? Which is fine, if that's what he wants me to do. But either way, it would be an extra hour of me doing something useful at the job, instead of 45 minutes at the end of the day just doing nothing. Plus, I might be able to go to back to kickboxing, if I finished a bit earlier. And it's just nice to finish earlier anyway, when it takes me a little while to get home.

It's not without its issues - like, I think getting up and getting in on time would be a bigger challenge than just leaving earlier, and that's the thing we're not practising at the moment - but overall I think I'd like the earlier hours. It's just that my boss doesn't seem to want to move on the actual changing of my hours right away - and I'm not sure when he will. Plus, I frequently mention things to him and then he forgets all about them unless I keep reminding him. So I'm not even sure if he remembers I'm going early at the moment. I think he wants me to have a decent period of going early just so we can make sure we catch any problems that even might happen. So we're just in kind of a limbo at the moment. And I don't really know what might happen with the things I think will be a bigger issue with changing my hours until we actually do it - at which point he seems to think it'll be hard to change them back, even if it did cause me problems. But overall I think I'd prefer the earlier hours, and would like to at least try them. Extra money for time not worked is cool for now though, although it makes me feel like I'm going to get 'caught' any week now.