Quasi weekly update
Mar. 13th, 2009 01:10 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
green_amber(what's the posh adjective for weekly? hebdominal ??)
Given I now have Internet access at work at least, you can see it's been busy!
Just had first swim at Sheffield Virgin gym since I returned. Also WALKED to gym from Montgomery Rd, since left car at work after piss up (see below!) and it turned out to be really a lot nearer than I thought. Although, knowing Sheffield, I bet that's cos it's uphill all the way back!
Ran into one of my work colleagues with her kid at the (very noisy)swimming lessons going on opposite my lanes (can someone not invent a way to soundproof swimming pools??) and as usual totally failed to know who she was. I begin to suspect every female person I know in Sheffield goes to this gym, the main posh one for my area ,and as I'm having my usual face recognition problems, they're probably staring at me RIGHT NOW thinking how unfriendly I am!!
There are kids climbing the climbing wall behind me now too. I Want To Do This. Must pluck up courage :)
Finding "going back to work" extremely knackering, to the extent of fearing becoming one of thee people who are TATT (Tired All The Time, as GPs call us:( It's not really work per se, more learning places, directions, faces, names , procedures ,rooms, etc etc while managing my mad timetable for March. Keeps you busy tho. I also find my teeny office incredibly psychologically constricting, to the extent where I stayed at home to work today. Praying promised move to larger room with decent window (it feels airless even with door and window open) comes through sooner rather than later. But I must say v unlikely me , I am really looking fwd to a weekend where I only have a social engagement, on Sunday (ex house mate who freaked over Java's peeing over for dins, plus Raf the Amazing Polish Intellectual. My Thai curry went down so well last time with these two, I think this time I might make Indonesian prawn soup along with Thai Massoman curry, Indian sag aloo and fragrant Thai rice. How does that sound??)
Landlady has agreed to get joiner round on Sunday to fix hammock-afflicted bed frame (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
catabolsim will belatedly welcome this!!). Sunday also features new catsitter coming over to meet cats before i go to Athens, as well as Sky arriving to fit Sky+ (which will mean I can FINALLY, EVENTUALLY get Internet.) Phew. (Cannot believe what useless bastards Virgin Media were - still no useful response to my endless calls. If anyone deserves to go to wall in recession, it is surely them..)
And work at Sheffield this week featured one knock down drink (ending up in Uni Arms) to celebrate opening new pro bono clinic, one slightly more refined drink to welcome new PG students, and coffee with various. It is so lovely to be back somewhere which includes a social life :))And the students seem really nice too!!! Will wonders never end!
Watching The Apprentice does Comic Relief last night rather amusing. As usual, all the conflicts were really about class , just like in the main prog, even when it's celebrities not wannabe nonentities. The girls' team immediately fissioned into the bright ones (Wax, Vorderman and the actual business-person) and the thickos (Bianca from EastEnders, a random presenter). Bianca then naturally went hissy fit in true EastEnders style. ("Don't you evah taaalk to meee like that!!" )In fact she was SO LIKE Bianca in EE, that I'm now wondering if they based the character on Patsy Palmer rather than the other way round!!
The boy's team meanwhile, fell into 3 smugly middle-class over-achiever types (Ross, Dee and Gerald Ratner) leaving the arty one (the lovely GokWan) frustrated and the insane one, well, insanely annoying. (Someone from Little Britain?) Everyone appeared to be exactly how they seem on TV; Jack Dee really was a misanthropic drily amusing curmudgeon, Ross really was a hyperactive desperate for attention child and well, Ratner, er was. Or was it all a double bluff and in reality they're all John Major actalikes?
Given I now have Internet access at work at least, you can see it's been busy!
Just had first swim at Sheffield Virgin gym since I returned. Also WALKED to gym from Montgomery Rd, since left car at work after piss up (see below!) and it turned out to be really a lot nearer than I thought. Although, knowing Sheffield, I bet that's cos it's uphill all the way back!
Ran into one of my work colleagues with her kid at the (very noisy)swimming lessons going on opposite my lanes (can someone not invent a way to soundproof swimming pools??) and as usual totally failed to know who she was. I begin to suspect every female person I know in Sheffield goes to this gym, the main posh one for my area ,and as I'm having my usual face recognition problems, they're probably staring at me RIGHT NOW thinking how unfriendly I am!!
There are kids climbing the climbing wall behind me now too. I Want To Do This. Must pluck up courage :)
Finding "going back to work" extremely knackering, to the extent of fearing becoming one of thee people who are TATT (Tired All The Time, as GPs call us:( It's not really work per se, more learning places, directions, faces, names , procedures ,rooms, etc etc while managing my mad timetable for March. Keeps you busy tho. I also find my teeny office incredibly psychologically constricting, to the extent where I stayed at home to work today. Praying promised move to larger room with decent window (it feels airless even with door and window open) comes through sooner rather than later. But I must say v unlikely me , I am really looking fwd to a weekend where I only have a social engagement, on Sunday (ex house mate who freaked over Java's peeing over for dins, plus Raf the Amazing Polish Intellectual. My Thai curry went down so well last time with these two, I think this time I might make Indonesian prawn soup along with Thai Massoman curry, Indian sag aloo and fragrant Thai rice. How does that sound??)
Landlady has agreed to get joiner round on Sunday to fix hammock-afflicted bed frame (
catabolsim will belatedly welcome this!!). Sunday also features new catsitter coming over to meet cats before i go to Athens, as well as Sky arriving to fit Sky+ (which will mean I can FINALLY, EVENTUALLY get Internet.) Phew. (Cannot believe what useless bastards Virgin Media were - still no useful response to my endless calls. If anyone deserves to go to wall in recession, it is surely them..)And work at Sheffield this week featured one knock down drink (ending up in Uni Arms) to celebrate opening new pro bono clinic, one slightly more refined drink to welcome new PG students, and coffee with various. It is so lovely to be back somewhere which includes a social life :))And the students seem really nice too!!! Will wonders never end!
Watching The Apprentice does Comic Relief last night rather amusing. As usual, all the conflicts were really about class , just like in the main prog, even when it's celebrities not wannabe nonentities. The girls' team immediately fissioned into the bright ones (Wax, Vorderman and the actual business-person) and the thickos (Bianca from EastEnders, a random presenter). Bianca then naturally went hissy fit in true EastEnders style. ("Don't you evah taaalk to meee like that!!" )In fact she was SO LIKE Bianca in EE, that I'm now wondering if they based the character on Patsy Palmer rather than the other way round!!
The boy's team meanwhile, fell into 3 smugly middle-class over-achiever types (Ross, Dee and Gerald Ratner) leaving the arty one (the lovely GokWan) frustrated and the insane one, well, insanely annoying. (Someone from Little Britain?) Everyone appeared to be exactly how they seem on TV; Jack Dee really was a misanthropic drily amusing curmudgeon, Ross really was a hyperactive desperate for attention child and well, Ratner, er was. Or was it all a double bluff and in reality they're all John Major actalikes?
![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2009-03-13 06:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-13 10:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-13 06:42 pm (UTC)I might catch up on The Apprentice over the weekend. E in work told me it was a hoot.
no subject
Date: 2009-03-13 06:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-13 09:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-14 03:04 pm (UTC)Well done on the continued jogging! You have inspired me to commit to Race for Life again this year, even though I don't know what my mobility will be like by then (here's hoping I can run it again!).
no subject
Date: 2009-03-13 10:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-03-14 03:29 pm (UTC)Agreed, he was FABULOUS :D
no subject
Date: 2009-03-14 12:52 am (UTC)Semi-fortnightly?
no subject
Date: 2009-03-14 08:04 am (UTC)Sounds om nom nom to me!
Looking forward to next week x