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Some Days...
Posted Feb 13, 2003
Are better than others.
So I get a call from a recruitment agent "Are you still looking for work?" Yes I reply "OK, You know the job I set you up for before. Well the client has another job in mind for you. Do you want to see him again?" Yes of course.
So an interview is set up for 11am the following morning (this being done at 6pm).
OK so I have a relaxing evening and a few beers while surfing the net. I go to bed at a reasonable time as I've to be up early to go and get my suit from the parents place on the way to the interview. I find I've trouble sleeping. I just put it down to nerves. I decide to take some fast insulin as mu before bed reading was a bit high, so I do 2units. Sometime between 1:30 and 2am I wake up and decide I need a drink and a quick snack, so I get some biscuits. Some time later I still can't sleep and I'm feeling MUCH worse. I manage to stagger down the stairs and this time think to take the blood sugar reading. 1.3 bloody hell 
it's been a while since it was that low. No wonder I'm feeling crap. Time to start shoveling doen the dried fruit to bring the blood glucose levels back up again. After half an hour the levels are back at 'normal levels'. I take another couple of units to try and stop the overshoot and know that it'll fail miserably. So back to bed and try to relax and stop the effects of the adrenaline running through my system.
Eventually I manage to get some sleep, even though I do think of forgetting the interview as I know I'll feel crap in the morning after a night like this.
As on cue the long acting shot starts taking effect at about 6ish am and I awake again. Ignore it as I know that I'm high from earlier.
Eventually the time comes for me to get up, so I do and off I trot to get the bus to start the journey to the interview thinking all the while that I'm not sure why I'm doing this as I don't think I want the job.
Suited and booted I get to the interview and have a chat about tha job prospect. I really do think I don't want this particular job, but then again it is a job...
Do I
a, Say that there are other possibilities on the horizon right now?
b, Try my best not to go out and spend money I've not got on the Massive Attack album?
c, Have a couple of beers with a close friend and try and work out what to do?
d, Write a journal entry on hootoo worrying about it?
e, All of the above?
f, None of the above?
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The snak you can eat between meals
Posted Dec 5, 2002
So I was sat in my sisters car waiting for her to return after dropping off one of the small ones friends. I decided to wind the window down and take a look around after all we were in a small village out in the deep dark country. It certainly was dark with no moon as that was new and the number of stars visible just by looking was fantastic. I tried locating some that I knew, first there was Cassiopia, then Perseus and Andromeda leading to Pegasus. Taurus and the seven sisters were clearly visible and was the dim fuzzy patch the Andromeda Galaxy? Looking round further I realised that yes I could easily see the line of the milky way running across the sky.
Then as my sister arrived back at the car we were all off to continue with the things that needed doing.
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Life imitates art
Posted Dec 2, 2002
A bright pink taxi goes past, as you'd expect really.
With the light on top telling me it was from Bab's Cabs, Royston Vasey. The number was Royson Vasey something or other.
I did see some of the League of Gentlemen being filmed over the summer and it wasn't part of that.
Someone has set up as Bab's cabs. Oh dear, never mind, but it did brighten up a dull wet afternoon 
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Like old men do
Posted Nov 29, 2002
Just like old men do.
Buy the evening paper and sit and read it slowly over a pint or two. Maybe attempt the crossword or other puzzles.
I'm starting to do that. Does it mean I'm turning into an old man?
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Latest reply: Nov 29, 2002
Pushing Pens
Posted Oct 9, 2002
So why is it that faced with an application form to fill in you can't think of anything to put in it. OK so, name and contact details, education and previous jobs are all copied from the last one. It's the give us your experiences and how they relate to our job spec where I'm having trouble. Reading the job spec I can do what is asked it's just the putting it into words I've got trouble with right now.
Perhaps to sleep on it again and really go at it tomorrow - a trip to the library to remove distractions I think, though there are an awfull lot of books in a library to distract me with...
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