As birthday weekends go, this was a pretty good one. Yesterday drank way too much wine and ate far too much Chinese food. Had a very pleasant evening celebrating interview success and impending birthday. Today, a drive out over the moors to the Blue Flame, then to Battleaxes at Wraxall for a huge dinner. Return journey via The Bell at Banwell. Another really good day. Extremely sleepy now.
Interview day at last. Wonderful frosty but bright morning. Started nervously but improved. Interview went well, managed to say all I wanted, and to sound reasonably confident. Later, informed I'd been successful. Told in fact that I'd interviewed better than for my previous job back in 2002. Much relieved and very happy. Sent an important text message, and various e-mails with the news. A pleasant but busy day. Presented with early birthday gift and cards on leaving the office. Sort of stunned and exhausted now! Copy of first part of Pevsner arrives, looks incredibly interesting if complicated. A good day, overall. Time to start work on Monday's appeal case...
Extremely busy week. Seem to have been dodging around catching up with things at work, out of the office lots, and today at two rather tricky appeal hearings, which went well - but not without a lot of work. Restless day otherwise. Interview tomorrow. Nervous despite all reassurances. Further appeal for Monday means I need to keep my wits about me. Pleasant telephone conversation this evening restores some faith.
Strange day. Vaguely hyperactive - not at all my usual state. In a reasonably buoyant mood despite it being closing date for the job vacancy. As a mammoth APR review meeting stretches way into the afternoon, it appears I won't know if I got an interview until next week. As a result of this, slumped into a minor funk on getting home. Couldn't really be bothered to do much at all. Need to break this rather negative phase I think, but not convinced I can until things are decided workwise. Huge tidying session at work helps a bit, and renders room far more pleasant to work in. Brought home lots of work to attempt to keep up to date, because next week (on paper at least) is looking very busy indeed. May have persuaded an ex-colleague to apply for other jobs in our office. Would be really good to work with her again!
Lost::MikeGTN
I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.
