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

Back at work today, boo hoo. It is chuffing cold again in my office, which is not good because it is actually a really mild day today. I am typing with my gloves on again and getting quite good at it, actually. I have complained to the Health and Safety Officer about the temperature today and he is going to send me a thermometer to test if we are below the 16 degree minimum temp. 16 Degrees is pretty darn cold if you ask me - personally I need to be at around 20 degrees to be comfortable, even with three layers of clothes on!

We have no e-mail at work at the moment. Someone has hacked into our server for the second time in only a month and, as my colleage the Technical Officer so charmingly put it earlier, "Outlook is proper broke."

Good luck with your revision.

Cheers for now.

Liz
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It all sounds none too good. The house was freezing when I first moved back but have got it to 18 degrees now, which is how I like it. 16 is a bit cold, I remember once awhen a building at school couldn't be used as the heating broke and went below 16 degrees, we had lessons in the hall instead.

Revision's going well, got through a lot today and will go back to it shortly (just finishing off lunch). Hope things get somewhat warmer.

It being mid-week, the college is now up to full temperature. It is so warm in my office today that I have got my shoes off at the moment.

I'm glad your revision is going well - when is your exam?

Liz
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I'm boiling too. Of the rooms is very cold, so the housemate it belongs to keeps turning the heating on, even though it's 20 degrees everywhere else.

First exam on the 13th, last exam on the 21st.

It remains mild here in Ipswich, in fact, I don't recall it ever being quite this mild in January. The world's gone mad! Lots of rain this week, but mostly while I have been in doors, so that's OK.

Good luck with the exams and have a nice weekend (if that's possible while revising).

Liz
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Sure is mild, had a bit of snow when the month started but been far too warrm since then.

Thanks, the revision is getting very tedios, though I spent much of the the weekend attending the h2g2 winter meet. I needed a break, or at least that's my excuse.

Sounds like a fine excuse to me!

Anyway, if your first exam is today I would imagine that your revision must be more or less over. My attitude is if you don't know it the night before, you never will know it.

Hope the exam goes OK today.

Liz
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Especially when the exam's firsdt thing in the morning. Can't really say how it went; didn't really have enough time, some of the questions were straight forward when others were very confusing. Still, one down.

So how many more exams have you got between now and next Wednesday? When will you know the results?

I'm having a very tedious day courtesy of our computer system at work. We have had network problems all day and my PC freezes up for several minutes at a time when given even the simplest task, like saving a document or even opening an existing one. A job that should have taken me a couple of hours this morning is still not finished because word keeps crashing. Personally, I think they should just let me go home, but I doubt that is going to happen.

3, and I haven't a clue. (My school doesn't exist anymore so I don't even know who's marking the papers).

It sure is annoying when that happens (my computer's played up a few times ). Going home is certainly preferable.

My morning has been spent revising the web. That's learning the jargon not a practical demonstration, which would have been preferable.

My computer is behaving a little better today - not that I've got much work to do. I'm so bored I might even have to write something!

Liz
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Well, at least the computer's better. I've only got 8 pages left to read for tomorrow's exam, but that's just as well as I've gone and picked up a cold.

Oh no! Poor you! The last thing you need is a cold. Perhaps you have got a bit run down from working too hard.
Keep warm and drink lots of fluids (here endeth the lecture).

As you can tell from the fact that this is my second post to you today, I'm still not exactly rushed of my feet at work. Still, mustn't grumble. If I complain too much they might give me another conference to organise and that would never do.

Have you seen Lou's post about not getting into Cambridge? She now has three other possibilities and one of them is Nottingham.

Liz
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I think it's because I've been cooped up indoors too much; I'm very much the outdoor type. I just hope it clears up for tomorrow afternoon.

No, I guess that wouldn't.

I just read it. Cambridge is practically impossible to get into and to be honest all the people I know who went there didn't like it. Last time I spoke to her Nottingham was the third place she wanted to go to, looks like she's changed her mind.

I course I think it's a brilliant university, though I am somewhat biased.

I hope your cold is better today.

My delightful boss has asked me to get some information about student numbers today. And she must have them today. So why didn't she ask me for them a bit sooner? Useless woman. If I had access to the main college network, I could conjur up these figures fairly quickly, but I don't (something I have been complaining about for a year) so I have to suck up to assorted people in other departments. Friday is a quiet day and half the people I need to talk to aren't even in. I do hate the way everything has to be so damn complicated.

Have you got anything planned for the weekend? We are going to my boyfriend's works Christmas Party. I still don't know what I am going to wear. The dress I bought for the other party I went to was such a disaster that I don't feel very inclined to wear it again. I ought to go shopping for a new top, but I just can't be bothered.

Liz
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My headache's gone, which is a big improvement.

Typical. Seems strange you'd be asked to do a task when you don;t have the required access.

Appart from revision, no. Seems a little late for a Christams party (or is it early?) A small plus side would be that all the party gear is somewhat reduced. I had to buy a new coat as the zip on my old one broke, and was happy to discover they were all half price.

I had a bit of a look around for party clothes last week, but nowhere seemed to have anything in. A lot of shops have already got their late winter/early spring lines in. I considered walking into town on Saturday to look for a new top, but as I go into town almost every lunch time, I can't find much enthusiasm for going on a Saturday. It was cold and windy here on Saturday too, so I just went for a walk around the block and wore the outfit the I bought for New Years Eve to the party.

We had a nice time. We managed to sit at a table with someone I have met before, which was a bonus. There weren't that many people there that Chris knew, probably less than half the guests were train drivers and the rest were mechanics and shunters. They were all drivers on our table and they seemed nice. Chris had rather more to drink than he usually does and then was a little too keen to dance the night away. It was quite entertaining actually, watching him arsing about on the dance floor. My feet and legs didn't half ache on Sunday, though.

It was raining most the day here on Saturday, so I only went outside for a little bit to get some air. I haven't been into the city centre since before the holidays.

Pleased you had a good time. We're going out on Friday for my friend's birthday, it will be such a relief to have the exams out the way.

Exams over - that will be a fine excuse for a party!

I'm having such a nice afternoon. My boss has been out all day (some jolly away day for college senior managers) so I have been on Hootoo all afternoon!

Considering that I got woken by at 5:50 this morning (my boyfriends employers forgot to tell him they wanted him in at 4:28 this morning and rang up when they noticed he wasn't there), I feel remarkably perky. And it's nearly time to go home.

now that's a good way to spend an afternoon.

Talk about shorty notice . I found that everything I've revised to today was stuff I already remembered, which makes it a good day.