right. here goes blog try # 2. in a more abbreviated and angry format.

weekend was good. did big fat nothing on fri. sat, lots of friends came to congratulate us on the wedding – k & t, andy, simi and adam, sharkey & candace, tonia, ludo, gerard, louise all came out, and were responsible for ensuring we got thoroughly soused. tequila starters are never a good idea, no matter who tries to convince you otherwise.

you’ll be unsurprised to discover that sunday was spent in recuperation. watched “the terminal” (better than I expected) and “hero” (which i fell asleep during – less a reflection of the movie, than my pavlovian response to couches and dvds)

monday i spent all day in a project mgt. training. in true council fashion, they have decided that 15 months into my project mgt. post is a good time to train me. however you have to love a training held in a pub – no freezing your ass off on ciggie breaks.

got a new-to-me computer on friday, which I didn’t get to even look at til today. only to find that a) all my archived emails were gone and b) all my work has now been lovingly interspersed with the accounting and budget info left on it from the previous owner. let’s just say computer hand-me-downs come rough and ready.

was informed today that they’d like to upgrade my post (to reflect the work i’m *really* doing – there’s a novel concept!) which I would be much more excited about if a) the associated pay rise translated to more tha £500 per annum, post tax and b) they didn’t have to wait until i got off this silly work permit to implement it. in the meantime, i’ll try not to spend my whole hypothetical windfall in one place, or before it hatches. or whatever.

essentially landlocked for the next 7 months while j applies for his brit passport. god forbid something should happen where i needed to go hom, he couldn’t even come with. why does the thought of remaining in the uk until october make me so incredibly claustrophic?

for fun and profit:
dave barry does england
*this* should help smooth u.s. diplomatic relations – not.
love or hate him, he helped define an era – the new yorker on hunter s. thompson
hope i didn’t inspire anyone to purchase one of these
i couldn’t make this shit up: someone actually researched homosexual necrophiliac ducks

i’ll end on that note – but believe me when i tell you the first draft was waaaay better.

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