The only other last day I remember is when I used to work in Woolies. I remember that leaving woolies was the last thing to do before it was time to go to uni, and I was so excited. I walked home with a massive grin on my face, free! no longer would Ihave to work, from then on I would be working hard at my degree and off to get a career.
Today is the last day at Student Funding. My colleagues have decorated my desk with kittes and sparkly starts and its fantastic! I really will miss them
i also got B and Lush vouchers, they know me so well
looking forward to the pub tonight, its so strange Iwon't be coming back here again. surreal
Friday, 9 May 2008
Thursday, 8 May 2008
Thursday
I made myself promise that this week I would not wish my time away. I also promised myself that on my last shift on the 'hot desk' I would speak my mind to the scrounging students.
There's 40 mins left of my last 'hot desk' time, and I've only seen one student today. No one to be rude to.
bah! This sucks, wish I was at home
and I've broken both my rules
I made cheesecakes yesterday to bring in for everyone, they're in the fridge upstairs and I'm guessing that their either completely untouched or completely devoured. I hope they're good! bought too many ingredients (a side effect from not actually having a recipe) so I can make more for the family when I see them on sunday! Lucky them. If my new oreo cookie recipe works, I'll be very popular with my sister.
1 Day, 4 Hours, 40 Mins
There's 40 mins left of my last 'hot desk' time, and I've only seen one student today. No one to be rude to.
bah! This sucks, wish I was at home
and I've broken both my rules
I made cheesecakes yesterday to bring in for everyone, they're in the fridge upstairs and I'm guessing that their either completely untouched or completely devoured. I hope they're good! bought too many ingredients (a side effect from not actually having a recipe) so I can make more for the family when I see them on sunday! Lucky them. If my new oreo cookie recipe works, I'll be very popular with my sister.
1 Day, 4 Hours, 40 Mins
Tuesday, 6 May 2008
Home Stretch
Finally, its my last week here at Student Funding and i promised myself I would not wish the week away in the same way I've wasted the past 8 months here. I decided that I would relish each opportunity to do no work, and be progressively more rude to students as the week rolls on.
fantastic
However
its getting on for half three, its boiling hot in here, and I want to go home to bed.
Still, not long now, and I'm planning my long weekend of freedom before my new job begins. I'm going to go visit the Letchworth crew either sunday night or monday morning and stay til either Tuesday or Wednesday. I really could do with getting some new clothes but alas money is going to be super tight this month, this being the worst thing about going from a temp to a permanent staff member. I'm used to getting a nice weekly injection of money into my account, now it will be monthly. joy.
3 days 1 hour 30 mins
fantastic
However
its getting on for half three, its boiling hot in here, and I want to go home to bed.
Still, not long now, and I'm planning my long weekend of freedom before my new job begins. I'm going to go visit the Letchworth crew either sunday night or monday morning and stay til either Tuesday or Wednesday. I really could do with getting some new clothes but alas money is going to be super tight this month, this being the worst thing about going from a temp to a permanent staff member. I'm used to getting a nice weekly injection of money into my account, now it will be monthly. joy.
3 days 1 hour 30 mins
Friday, 2 May 2008
New Cars and the Tourist Route
Yesterday, My mum came to visit bring Anne from Ireland with her. my mum dropped off her old car/my new car we signed the papers etc and then headded off to show Anne the lovely sights of Coventry
Being a Catholic Lass, the cathedral was the first place to go, we had a slow walk around and went all the way through, I've never been all the way through before, its avery pretty building even if the tapestry at the back is creepy. Anyway, we also went through the ruins and trinity church before visiting the Godiva and we even saw the Godiva clock do its thing!
Left them at the bus station and headed to the car park to pick up my car! it was great, I loved driving it, fantastic!
Drove matt to the car wash with it to give him a ride, he loves it too. yay!
Can't wait to drive it again and I think I'm going to take it home with me next weekend.
Today, I'm wearing a pair of shoes I've not worn before, black, lace-up, high heeled, peep-toe shoes with white piping, loverly. I keep getting shoe compliments. Fantastic! going to wear them to the pub later and hurt. At least I have my flats to get back to the car with.
Very much looking forward to the pub tonight.
4 days 1 hour 55 minutes
Being a Catholic Lass, the cathedral was the first place to go, we had a slow walk around and went all the way through, I've never been all the way through before, its avery pretty building even if the tapestry at the back is creepy. Anyway, we also went through the ruins and trinity church before visiting the Godiva and we even saw the Godiva clock do its thing!
Left them at the bus station and headed to the car park to pick up my car! it was great, I loved driving it, fantastic!
Drove matt to the car wash with it to give him a ride, he loves it too. yay!
Can't wait to drive it again and I think I'm going to take it home with me next weekend.
Today, I'm wearing a pair of shoes I've not worn before, black, lace-up, high heeled, peep-toe shoes with white piping, loverly. I keep getting shoe compliments. Fantastic! going to wear them to the pub later and hurt. At least I have my flats to get back to the car with.
Very much looking forward to the pub tonight.
4 days 1 hour 55 minutes
Wednesday, 30 April 2008
10 Most Controversial Adverts of 2007
During my usual morning browse on the BBC website, checking the weather for my mum and Anne's visit tomorrow and catching up on the latest news I see that on the most read column is a list of the top 10 most controversial ads of 2007, the ones clocking up the most complaints that year.
those of you that know me will know I love adverts, and get stupidly excited when new ones come out (just a few weeks ago my sister texted me the confusing message of "sa" and just when I was about to reply with "whaa?" she replies with "cla" making my week!)
Anyway, the list this year comprises of
1. NHS "don't get hooked" anti smoking campaign
- I usually don't like the unpleasant shocky adverts for things that don't apply to me for example the horrific driving ones (being a motorist now I can't complain about them anymore) but these ads were effective. however I do feel that they were controversial and complain worthy definately so against number 2
2. Trident gum ad
- The one with the caribbean poet talking about gum. I loved that ad, it was awesome! (Probably on visit4info if you wanna watch it) apparently it was stereotyping. would they prefer an all-white cast? we have caribbean people here, and I don't think they are particularly stereotyped as poets. besides, its quite a nice stereotype to have. Its better than being a chav! and you can get killed for being a goth these days too!
3. Rustlers
- Okay, so transforming a rather conservative-looking girl into a sex-machine in her underwear with one spin of a sofa is a little offensive. But its old news. we've seen it all before!
I could go on with the rest of the list, but its all as petty as the rest
however, looking at the 774 people who complained about the ad in the top spot and the 2465 people who complained in total, I think we can afford to piss off the minority. bring on ever more controversial adverts, lets see how far we can push the boundaries and not leave all the controversial glory for the NHS and other public services.
better still, make them more interesting or funny. whatever happened to the old style fun adverts...
5 days 5 hours 15 minutes...
those of you that know me will know I love adverts, and get stupidly excited when new ones come out (just a few weeks ago my sister texted me the confusing message of "sa" and just when I was about to reply with "whaa?" she replies with "cla" making my week!)
Anyway, the list this year comprises of
1. NHS "don't get hooked" anti smoking campaign
- I usually don't like the unpleasant shocky adverts for things that don't apply to me for example the horrific driving ones (being a motorist now I can't complain about them anymore) but these ads were effective. however I do feel that they were controversial and complain worthy definately so against number 2
2. Trident gum ad
- The one with the caribbean poet talking about gum. I loved that ad, it was awesome! (Probably on visit4info if you wanna watch it) apparently it was stereotyping. would they prefer an all-white cast? we have caribbean people here, and I don't think they are particularly stereotyped as poets. besides, its quite a nice stereotype to have. Its better than being a chav! and you can get killed for being a goth these days too!
3. Rustlers
- Okay, so transforming a rather conservative-looking girl into a sex-machine in her underwear with one spin of a sofa is a little offensive. But its old news. we've seen it all before!
I could go on with the rest of the list, but its all as petty as the rest
however, looking at the 774 people who complained about the ad in the top spot and the 2465 people who complained in total, I think we can afford to piss off the minority. bring on ever more controversial adverts, lets see how far we can push the boundaries and not leave all the controversial glory for the NHS and other public services.
better still, make them more interesting or funny. whatever happened to the old style fun adverts...
5 days 5 hours 15 minutes...
Tuesday, 29 April 2008
6 days left
Now if any of you know me personally, you will know that I am currently rotting away in the University Student Funding Office where I have been temping since I left Uni. I am now eagerly awaiting my new job with Prezzybox.com. I have 6 working days left here before I leave. I can't wait!
The past month has been a strange one, after going to 2 interviews at prezzybox (in the middle of nowhere) I decide to take the plunge and finish my driving lessons. being a temp I could afford to take loads of time off to do it so why not. I took a 2 week intensive course, 8 days with 3 hours driving per day and working the rest of the day, exhausting! I got offered the job during the first week of lessons and managed to get a cancellation test for the saturday after my course had finished, lucky me. I passsed, contrary to everyone's expectations!
what a month
Anyway, I am now waiting to get my car on thursday (Mum's old car, she's just got a nice new shiny one) and I'm counting down the days left here.
I'm sure this place makes my Emet worse. sitting at this desk all day doing nothing but surfing the net as there's nothing else to do, I kid ye not! not being busy makes me feel sick. I only hope that when I start the new job my brain will re-attatch itself quickly. Its been detatched for about 9 months now.
6 Days, 1 Hour and 10 Minutes to go
can you tell I'm desperate to get out of here yet?
The past month has been a strange one, after going to 2 interviews at prezzybox (in the middle of nowhere) I decide to take the plunge and finish my driving lessons. being a temp I could afford to take loads of time off to do it so why not. I took a 2 week intensive course, 8 days with 3 hours driving per day and working the rest of the day, exhausting! I got offered the job during the first week of lessons and managed to get a cancellation test for the saturday after my course had finished, lucky me. I passsed, contrary to everyone's expectations!
what a month
Anyway, I am now waiting to get my car on thursday (Mum's old car, she's just got a nice new shiny one) and I'm counting down the days left here.
I'm sure this place makes my Emet worse. sitting at this desk all day doing nothing but surfing the net as there's nothing else to do, I kid ye not! not being busy makes me feel sick. I only hope that when I start the new job my brain will re-attatch itself quickly. Its been detatched for about 9 months now.
6 Days, 1 Hour and 10 Minutes to go
can you tell I'm desperate to get out of here yet?
New Blog
Hello all
Welcome to my new blog. I've not had a blog since the days of livejournal (about 4 years back) so if you're reading this, you're going to have to bear with me for a bit.
Being an introductory post, I'll point you in the direction of my profile if you'd like to find out more about me, and in the direction of my website Http://www.katpage.co.uk if you want to see some of my work. I hope to get this on my website soon, so, if you're reading this on my website, It would be safe to assume that I managed to get it sorted.
Happy Reading!
Welcome to my new blog. I've not had a blog since the days of livejournal (about 4 years back) so if you're reading this, you're going to have to bear with me for a bit.
Being an introductory post, I'll point you in the direction of my profile if you'd like to find out more about me, and in the direction of my website Http://www.katpage.co.uk if you want to see some of my work. I hope to get this on my website soon, so, if you're reading this on my website, It would be safe to assume that I managed to get it sorted.
Happy Reading!
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