girlofprey

• Last Wednesday - A Jobcentre appointment and all the usual lack of sleep, running around and applying for jobs/lying that goes along with that.



• Last Thursday - A counselling appointment, and all the lack of sleep that goes along with getting up for an appoinment at about 11 in the morning for me when I've normally been getting out of bed a bit later than that. Although the appointment itself was fairly fine, my counselling woman is quite nice.



• Last Friday - Getting out of bed to answer the phone, which turned out to be one of my agencies calling to offer me a temporary job, which started today, and which I accepted. It's only for four weeks, but it is work. Hurrah.



• Saturday and Sunday: - The Riverside Festival, which is one of my favourite things about Nottingham. There are live bands from around the world, and fairground rides, and people wandering around in costumes doing street theatre, and fairground-style burger and candyfloss vans, and it's by a river, and admission is free. On the Saturday I saw a dance performance as well by a local dance class doing swing-dancing. Then tap-dancing. And then another dance class who proceeded to do the cha-cha, and confusingly, a jive dance to the same song the celebrities did a group swing dance to on the last series of Strictly Come Dancing. But it was good. And now I get the enjoyable opportunity to look up the great bands I saw from various countries up on the internet. Yay.



• Monday - Running around trying to get all my housing benefits and Jobseekers Allowance and things properly notified that I'm going to be working for a bit, and make sure I have clothes and stuff.



• Today - My first day of work since February/March. Which was not so bad, but mostly because we weren't on the computers yet, and couldn't do much besides reading the leaflets they gave us, having health and safety talks and a quick run-through of what we would be doing when we did get on the computers, and talking. Tomorrow is when the actual work will start, but it looks fairly simple so far, and there's a few other temps working with me who started today, one of whom I'm sitting with and who seems quite nice. So really a pretty good day. Yay.

Gah! Just when I thought I was all caught up with and on top of my reading, The Wife of Bath's Prologue comes along to bite me in the ass. Growl. But I'm still quite pleased today :). My friend from Manchester, Katy J, texted me asking for my address, which means I'll be getting her letter soon, yay! And I'm going to a Chocolate evening tonight (?!), which I'm hoping will involve lots of chocolate. For £5, I hope so! The University Swing Night has been pushed back to a mystery time, though, which is probably for the best, as I have no dancing shoes at the mo. And there's a new edition of Total Film out tomorrow! And it's snowing!! Which does make the walk to uni more treacherous, yes, but - is pretty. And gives us an excuse to keep our stray cat (who is mysteriously covered in soot recently) in overnight, since it is bastardly to put him/her out in the snow. So yes.

Eastenders. ::pokes Pat:: Come on, cry, bitch. Weep for Andy. He wasn't so bad after all! Another problem I have discovered with soap fandoms: no access to previous goings on. I'd give anything at the moment to see the episodes of Andy working under (?) Dalton, and menacing Alfie, and sharing mother issues (?) with Dennis. ( rambly rambliness )