h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Thought I'd post some good news for a change - this week's turning out pretty well so far. Not been around here much lately, but RL has been busy.

We had our final class yesterday, which leaves the mere matter of my Master's project and about 20,000 words in essays until I'm all done.
I got home to find that the terrible interview I had last week had resulted in a job offer after all So I won't get bored.

I've been working with a three-year-old horse lately. He's only been ridden for two months. I got the first canter out of him today. He's very unbalanced - feels like riding a sewing machine in zigzag stitch mode - but very eager to please.

Speaking of sewing machines, an acquaintance is lending me hers for a few weeks, so I can finally get around to the projects I've got piling up. And there's a 24-hour tabletop gaming session coming up this weekend.

Best of all, the supermarket seems to have decided that fruit has a "sell-by" date and must be disposed of by then, so I got two dozen peaches and a papaya for under £1 today. This calls for making jam tomorrow. Perhaps with a bit of ginger in it.

What a good journal!

Nice to see something going your way for once, Mala.

Congratulations about the job


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Pleased and proud.

Good to see a positive Journal for a change. Haven't dared post on mine.

Keep us updated. And extra positive wishes your way.

MMF

Fruit, horses, jobs... It's all on the up for you!

What's the job then? any involved?

Oooh what kind of job is it? And which tabletop game do you play?

Sounds like everything is going great

Ooh, if you're making jam and 2legs has bread we've got a tea party

Rumour has it that there are involved in the job...

Well done on the job front!

Accommodation wise, I'll have a house available for rent come September.....

Yah, we could do with some good news around here [leaving aside of course for the team's excellent work on Pliny!!!]

I'm going to be a peasant. An early 20th/late 19th Century farmer in a museum village. And it does involve driving horses, don't know all the details yet.

Not full-time yet, but at least it's employment.

And thanks, Bea - if my flatmates keep bickering as much as they do, I might have to get back to you on that!

Oooh, yes, you've told me about that one.

(Not sure which games we'll be playing yet, Tav - probably Pathfinder, D&D 4e, and Gamma World, as well as some more obscure systems. I'm running Queeste, and someone else is running two he wrote himself. We usually get over 100 people, so I'm sure there will also be Warhammer and Game of Thrones somewhere, as usual, plus all the Pokemon, console gamers, board games, LARPers... You should come to one!)

Good news! Well done, Mala!

Congrats on the job Mala! It sounds

Great news, Mala!

I have made an important observation: Any posting concerning Mala and a is usually a quite good posting

It's not that I have a one-track mind, just that one of its tracks is always going

Congratulations, it sounds like a pretty cool job!

(By the way, your tag line is scaring the wits out of me - it was bad enough when you were *un*authorised! )