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I go home for my dinner nowadays and the way back out I bumped into our new neighbours. They seem very lovely even though I have deduced this from saying hello to each of them as they walked past my door. Mind you, I've also deduced that the male half of the couple is quite a tasty piece, also from the same hello. Sadly my mind has gone wandering and I keep thinking that our flats are going to be like 'Friends'. This is probably an indication that I would make quite a good stalker really. Still, it would be quite nice if we could make friends with the people opposite. I'm determined to make an effort though, even though I'm rubbish at this sort of thing.
Plinth update - Charlie Brooker has called the fourth plinth 'Big Brother for Guardian readers' but I remain undeterred! Highlights so far include a man dressed as a gorilla, a man giving first aid lessons, a woman doing topiary, and a woman making a bread sculpture! It also turns out that all of my ideas have now been done. Dress as a pigeon and strut up and down - done. Balloon animals - done. Bubbles - done. Paper airplanes - done. Hitting tennis balls off the plinth - being done as I type this! My only other idea was to get stark bollock naked and I have a feeling that by week ten that might be the only original idea left. There have been some nice charity ones. There was even a woman promoting her library! It wasn't very inventive though :(
That reminds me, I've found a job to apply for, it's quite actually because it's a library assistant at York Uni but it's the other side as it were. It's more about cataloguing and logging books rather than shelving so it would expand areas I don't know about and allow me to put my MSc skills into practice. there's travel costs and time sure, but I'm, desperate quite frankly and this is too good to miss. I also suit the job spec so I'll be applying for that tomorrow I think. James has recently applied for a job too so hopefully the next few months will involve us both getting brilliant jobs! We can but dream.
You can tell that I don't have much to say can't you? This week has been pretty slow all told. Oh, we booked our holiday! That's exciting. We're going to Mayrhofen in Austria which seems like a lovely alpine town. You get a free walking guide book when you go so we'll be doing plenty of that. I'd really like to walk the two hours to the Italian alps, that'd be good. We'll be going up the mountain in a cable car at least. We've also got our eye on taking day trips to Munich and Innsbruck. All very exciting. I love exploring new places. It's not until the very end of August though which is ages away. I'm off the week before though.
Other news is that I went to the opticians last week. As usual my eyes have got worse so I bought a new pair of glasses, they're a little different from usual and I'm quite pleased with them. However, the woman who did the fitting was unintentionally terrible:
"Your eyes are quite bad, they're an (insert dire number here)". Yes, I'm aware that my eyes are fucked, they're really really bad, please stop making me feel bad about it.
"Your lenses will be quite thick and we can thin them for an extra charge. The £60 option is the one that contact lens wearers usually go for and it'll mean that non-one will know any different" So what you're saying is that I should be ashamed of my poor eyesight and embarassed to let anyone know that my eyes are in need of transplantation? Cheers.
So I left feeling like I should be ashamed of something I have no control over and conned out of £115. I hope that I feel better tomorrow when I go to pick them up. I'm pleased that I've picked something different. James was making me try on 'Gok Wan recommends' range but anything that isn't quite plain makes me look like a drag queen. I hate my eyes. I'm quite happy with my body in general but I hate my eyes and I hate my hair. I've always hated going to the hairdressers but always quite liked the opticians on account of the interesting tests. Now I can look forward to some pointed comment about having embarassing eyesight and being milked dry over something I can't help. If any of you have good eyesight don't take it for granted!
The rest of the week has involved Megadrive games, Broken Sword on the DS and watching telly. Oh, and we made flapjacks last night. OMNOMNOM! Tis all good.
Plinth update - Charlie Brooker has called the fourth plinth 'Big Brother for Guardian readers' but I remain undeterred! Highlights so far include a man dressed as a gorilla, a man giving first aid lessons, a woman doing topiary, and a woman making a bread sculpture! It also turns out that all of my ideas have now been done. Dress as a pigeon and strut up and down - done. Balloon animals - done. Bubbles - done. Paper airplanes - done. Hitting tennis balls off the plinth - being done as I type this! My only other idea was to get stark bollock naked and I have a feeling that by week ten that might be the only original idea left. There have been some nice charity ones. There was even a woman promoting her library! It wasn't very inventive though :(
That reminds me, I've found a job to apply for, it's quite actually because it's a library assistant at York Uni but it's the other side as it were. It's more about cataloguing and logging books rather than shelving so it would expand areas I don't know about and allow me to put my MSc skills into practice. there's travel costs and time sure, but I'm, desperate quite frankly and this is too good to miss. I also suit the job spec so I'll be applying for that tomorrow I think. James has recently applied for a job too so hopefully the next few months will involve us both getting brilliant jobs! We can but dream.
You can tell that I don't have much to say can't you? This week has been pretty slow all told. Oh, we booked our holiday! That's exciting. We're going to Mayrhofen in Austria which seems like a lovely alpine town. You get a free walking guide book when you go so we'll be doing plenty of that. I'd really like to walk the two hours to the Italian alps, that'd be good. We'll be going up the mountain in a cable car at least. We've also got our eye on taking day trips to Munich and Innsbruck. All very exciting. I love exploring new places. It's not until the very end of August though which is ages away. I'm off the week before though.
Other news is that I went to the opticians last week. As usual my eyes have got worse so I bought a new pair of glasses, they're a little different from usual and I'm quite pleased with them. However, the woman who did the fitting was unintentionally terrible:
"Your eyes are quite bad, they're an (insert dire number here)". Yes, I'm aware that my eyes are fucked, they're really really bad, please stop making me feel bad about it.
"Your lenses will be quite thick and we can thin them for an extra charge. The £60 option is the one that contact lens wearers usually go for and it'll mean that non-one will know any different" So what you're saying is that I should be ashamed of my poor eyesight and embarassed to let anyone know that my eyes are in need of transplantation? Cheers.
So I left feeling like I should be ashamed of something I have no control over and conned out of £115. I hope that I feel better tomorrow when I go to pick them up. I'm pleased that I've picked something different. James was making me try on 'Gok Wan recommends' range but anything that isn't quite plain makes me look like a drag queen. I hate my eyes. I'm quite happy with my body in general but I hate my eyes and I hate my hair. I've always hated going to the hairdressers but always quite liked the opticians on account of the interesting tests. Now I can look forward to some pointed comment about having embarassing eyesight and being milked dry over something I can't help. If any of you have good eyesight don't take it for granted!
The rest of the week has involved Megadrive games, Broken Sword on the DS and watching telly. Oh, and we made flapjacks last night. OMNOMNOM! Tis all good.
