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Busy - not dead
Posted Sep 10, 2008
Right, so I'm offline loads at the moment, not even lurking (yes, that feeling of being watched is me) 
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I do still post and read and stuff but convos with me are going to be fragmented and slow. All worth it in the end, obviously, but I figured it would only be polite to warn people a little.
Currently, I'm trying to get a bit of balance going between work and school and having naps and homework and housework and sex and laundry and commuting and playing with the dog and not sleeping cause you had a nap which then makes you tired and then makes you need a nap. There is no logic in this.
On the plus side, school is fun. 
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Is it wrong?
Posted Apr 23, 2008
To feel frumpy when you're thirty?
It's not good though, right?
Maybe not wrong as such, exactly, but not something to make one pleased or proud.
Not dowdy though.
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Latest reply: Apr 23, 2008
Out with the old (job), in with the new
Posted Apr 9, 2008
So, my Plan A! seems to be working.
New personal motto being 'slowly but surely' as opposed to 'just do it' (with apologies to Horace for replacing the old 'Carpe Diem' with the snappier noughties version).
I have resigned my job with glee and will complete my notice period this week. In fact, today we're having a little farewell lunch with a few coworker friends.
I have attended two interviews and been offered two jobs - out of those I have accepted one, not too far from here, that is paid more than my current (permanent!) role.
I start there on Monday and best of all, they know I am off to be a mature student in September and are fine with it - might even consider a part time role for me.
I appear to be developing something dangerously close to a five year plan, involving 'patience'. I have heard of this concept, this radical idea, but have never practised it for myself. Others I know have spoken of this practice and encouraged me to try it on for size and now it would appear that I am developing this habit.
Short term plans involve a spring cleaning of the house, gardening and going to the Barbican on a weekend.
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Latest reply: Apr 9, 2008
Some News
Posted Mar 3, 2008
I haven't been here much lately - company installed a new webfilter and although i'm not really bothered about my job anymore, I don't particularly want to end up in a confrontation about my net usage as I'd probably walk out, ne'er to return to there.
In other news, I'm leaving my job in about August this year.
I have applied to and been accepted into one of the best arts foundation programs here in the UK, as a part time, mature student.
The course starts in september and I'm really worried / excited / impatient to start and the smallest little thing sets me off with regards to work at the moment because of this.
So I'll be downsizing my job to a more part timey one - anyone want to hire a bitter, twisted netholic, with exceptional admin and management skills for a part time role near to (my) home?
ismarah
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Florida Three Oh
Posted Jul 2, 2007
more low budget and low key than hawaii five oh, obviously.
So i'm back from two and a half weeks in Florida on hols. managed to turn older without incident - spent the last couple of hours of one year and the first couple of hours of the next with a nice rum-induced buzz going.
i'm pleasantly surprised at being pleased to be back at work. my event that i have been toiling over since february went off splendidly (if not without a hitch - who on earth fires the caterers on the day???*) in my absence. People seemed glad to have me back and i do believe i've lost a bit of weight - what's not to like about a new age, a new dawn, a new decade when it starts like that?
so now i'm back home, broke, less full of grandiose plans than i was last time when i returned from FL and generally just more grown up. (show of hands - who am i kidding with this maturity mumbo jumbo?!)
in other news, DT and I are thinking about reorganising / redecorating our living room. I am also thinking about a good time to join the gym (where DT promised to throw in 10 sessions with a personal trainer to get me going - does the man think i'm fat? <horror>
*the answer is - my team! two hours before service they fired the caterer because they figured they could do a better job themselves. catered agreed, and skedaddled. wuss.)ismarah
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Latest reply: Jul 2, 2007
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