Pay day. Trip to Bristol, and to some rather good pubs which I'd not visited before. Excellent company, and lots of fun. Found myself reading Keats aloud in an unlikely tavern. Later, extremely teenage behaviour in Bristol's bus stops. I don't understand it - why was I 65 when I was 15, and 15 when I'm 30? Confused, but very happy. Arrived home late. Ended up visiting lots of APT websites, since a new UK rail speed record was set. Also, noted Bristol academic (and Gissing List member) in TV exposure! Very happy and confused today!
Appraisal day. All goes well. More meetings. More confusion. More revelations. I like my job - more than ever, but the politics are sometimes bewildering. I've learned to side-step them mostly, but its hard to avoid. Need new projects and things to look forward to.
Back to work. All very hurried and confusing. Lots going on, some of it secret and worrying. Meetings about Net Capacity start the week. Appraisal looms. Tons happening, considering its Summer Holidays. Will people never stop applying for school places this september?!
Very positive appeal news appears to fall flat. I'm biased because I've spent weeks researching and preparing for these hearings, but a little happiness that a potential financial and educational disaster has been averted would have maybe helped. Need to prepare for interview at the end of the week, and work out how to approach the difficult remaining few months of my contract, which feel a bit vague and purposeless right now. much Denzil work - having other people involved is both a blessing and a curse, meaning I have to actually keep things working - not something which is often the case in my projects.
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.
