My life, in no particular order

[jadesfire]

Things that occur to me today:

~ I don't post here as much as I used to. I can't work out whether this means my life is more interesting or less interesting.

~ Work is currently going well. This fills me with dread because I worry I'm missing something. It's possible that I just got more competent, but that seems unlikely.

~ We go on holiday on the 26th. That is not even three weeks away. Woot!

~ On Wednesday evening, I managed to lock myself in an unlocked room at work. This requires talent, I feel.

~ The microwave at work does strange things to potatoes, making them hot, soft and uncooked, all at the same time.

~ I really, really don't have a clue about my own stories, and thus owe people four fics as part of the Stump the Author Meme. On the plus side, I might get my cliche bingo card done after all.

~ Collaborative writing is one of the best experiences, ever.

~ My new netbook is Simply Awesome. I have also noticed that other people's technology tends to be named, while I've just been calling mine "my baby". I have decided that this is slightly creepy, and have therefore decided to call her Sapphire instead, since she is a lovely shade of blue. Hopefully, I will eventually get a silver iPod Nano that I can call Steel. This will make me very happy.

~ So far, we have viewed 3 flats, all of which needed work doing to them. That was the good part. The bad part was that they were all 1960s/70s Best of British Design - ie small and concrete. While I don't doubt we could do good things with them, none of them really got my soul going. We are currently pursuing a Very Exciting Opportunity which I can't say anything about in a public post, and which has about a 95% chance of not happening, but. Very Exciting, and worth the work and the risk. Possibly not worth the over-excited state that I tend to work myself into, though.

~ Speaking of which, New Pills are better than Old Pills. Instead of my mid-month downer, I've had mid-month severe instability. While this has left me kind of wrung out today (when I'm feeling better), it's actually better than the downer, since I can get things done. Still waiting to see what happens when I get another two weeks down the line...

~ I need to do things for bau_bigbang today, as well as edit a podtour of the library, answer some questions for my Staff Development Review on Monday and generally pretend to be a grown up. This is hard when you are wearing shiny red shoes and light purple tights.

~ Job-hunting is hard. I'm not sure if it's harder on me or major_jim, but it's hard.

~ It is probably time for an icon shuffle. Anyone who has my icons on alerts, consider yourselves warned.

~ I need a new bike. Fond as I am of my pink and yellow baby elephant (I maintain that the paintwork is an anti-theft device), the back brakes are rubbing against the wheel and neither set work particularly well, especially in the wet.

~ On Monday, the library begins moving, relabelling and replacing 16,000 books. I can't wait to see what it looks like.

~ Responsibility is over-rated. I'm off for chocolate cake. Anyone care to join me?