The Rosebush

Current Mood: Happy

Woohoo, me been havin’ some fun!Went out with Lena in Reading on Friday night which was heinously drunken but a lot of fun, despite her unfortunate other half trying to ruin everybody’s mood. Went to sleep around 4am and woke up about 6 hours later, still tipsy, and did the obligatory TV watching with cup of tea and nibbling toast, whilst fighting the hangover. Incidentally, the hangover won, and stayed with me the entire day until I went to bed. :sick:

Had to go to Specsavers on Saturday and apparently I have some damage on my left eye. I blame the long hours of TEFL for that… Anyway, Saturday was nice, picked up by J and indulged in Soccer Aid which was brilliant and David Blaine’s thing, which was also really interesting… there is something special about that bloke, whatever you put it down to… I also managed to poison J. :whistle: Sorry about that…

Yesterday we went to a BBQ and helped out. I got mauled by a Doberman puppy (in a nice licky way, not the way I usually seem to get mauled by dogs) and then got mauled by small children for the rest of the afternoon. My biceps hurt from pretending to throw kids into bushes. Ow. J slaved away at the BBQ all afternoon and did a great job of feeding the masses.

And it’s not over yet! Hopefully, if all goes according to plan, we’re off to do the ghost walk in Oxford tonight as part of my Oxford exploration for work. With a bit of luck, it wont piss it down and will be eerie and exciting!

Podz has added some widgety gadgety wotsits to my blog which means that I now have some very funky smilies :w00t: as you can see…

My visa’s been approved… I’m going to Burma

*FLOP*

Just got back from Oxford - another full day - this time we did the Ashmolean Museum (don’t bother, unless there’s something there you know you want to see), the Oxford Museum of Natural History and the Pitt Rivers Museum, both very interesting indeed, especially if you like stuffed ponies and taxidermy in general, dinosaurs and cockroaches.

We also had free admission to the Oxford Story (again, don’t waste your time - do the walking tour instead, it’s more interesting and less patronising, and you see real people instead of fibre-glass figures) and had a brief look at the punting costs etc.

Absolutely exhausted now and looking forward to catching up with Lost and… dare I say it… the dross that is BB…

and later…

Could things be on the up? Be interesting to see what happens on Saturday…

and… guess who you’ll NEVER see on my iPod…

Kaiser Chiefs.  Why?  Because they suck.

I can’t STAND the fact that I just watched Big Brother again. Does anybody want to buy my TV? ARGHHH.

Day 2 - was fine! I’m not back in the office again for a week now, off visiting stately homes and doing tours of Oxford museums and sights and stuff.

I hate people who only phone me when they want something. I hope I’m not like that.

In other news - I’m still a bit of an idiot and y’all know what ahm talkin’ bout! x

I hope I’m not jumping the gun, but… I reckon I’m pretty damn lucky to have this job…

It went okay today! Some data inputting, a bit of research… I’m spending the 2nd half of the week and the first half of next week walking around Oxford and basically doing all the tours and things the kids will do during the summer school, but I’m checking it’s all interesting enough, suitable for the age groups, getting information and leaflets together, prices, booking info etc… what a first week, huh? I get petrol paid for, I get paid to do touristy stuff in Oxford, I can even take my Dad with me if I want Also have to visit places like Blenheim Palace and other National Trusty type places…

I reckon it beats slaving my arse off for a certain world-dominating coffee corporation

In other news… I have always prided myself on my immunity from the Big Brother Mania which seems to clutch at this country and refuse to let it go for 10 f*cking weeks. I found the original concept vaguely interesting, and watched the last handful of the first couple of series with detached interest. Having seen the ridiculous cross-section of societal minorities chosen for this particular series, I ought to be revolted by the quality of entertainment we are prepared to stoop to at the end of a hard day. (I’m not talking about the gay housemates. I’m talking about the putrifying stereotypes being used to exploit said minorities - how will homosexual communities ever catch a break?)
However…

I can’t stop watching it… please help me

Update: I have now decided that Shabaz is a mole, planted by BB in the house just to see what would happen.  I reckon he’s in with a good chance of winning cos, let’s face it, it’d be pretty boring without him…

Alright, maybe a bit, but don’t go on about it…

Start me new job tomorrow… eep!  Okay, it’s only for a month, doing admin for the IH group who run the summer school I’ll be working at in July and August.  But I think it’s gonna be fairly unstructured, which makes me edgy!  We’ll see how it goes though… at least I’ve got a job, and I’m grateful for that… need the money!! :)

“The judge, Mr Justice Goldring, recommended that the twice-married father-of-one should never be released. He will be considered for parole in twelve and a half years.”

Can somebody please explain this to me?  Isn’t parole the same thing as being released?