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Mar. 30th, 2007 08:05 pmLast night was the Mayor of Southampton's Ball.
( The Ball )
Home at 1 am, and straight to bed - back to work this morning...
Hooray, hooray, it's pay day. The BACS glitch thankfully didn't affect me, and I bagged a welcome back-dated pay rise and some excess hours worked last month. For the first time in more than a year, I'm financially comfortable and in no need of missing football matches to make ends meet. Touch wood.
Unsurprisingly, was tired through most of the morning. Come 12.40 I did a whole interview feeling half asleep! At 2.10 I got a lady willing to answer for both herself and her partner. The last thing I wanted was to miss the bus - I had stuff to do after work - so wrote a message on a piece of paper asking for someone to relieve me by 2.25, stood up (all the while carrying on interviewing, and betraying no sign of rufflement to the blissfully unaware lady on the other end), waved the bit of paper and tried to catch Christine #3's eye. After some minutes, Sally appeared and took the paper from me, then at 2.21 she returned and tapped me on the shoulder. I finished the section I was asking my lady, explained to her that I was handing her over to Sally, and hopped into an adjacent workstation to look at my internal e-mail and enter my payclaim.
In the end, the bus was a quarter of an hour late anyway.
Went into Gosport to buy a Mars & Friends Easter egg, a big posting box, a roll of masking tape and a roll of bubble wrap, sit in the Post Office assembling the box, packing and taping, and send the egg off to Lady Mélisande. Once that was done, moved on to the shoe shop to buy a pair of US Brass, as the sole of one of my Richleighs is now the consistency of paper in places and extremely close to having a hole.
Home to book the flights for my holiday - cheap thrill!
( The Ball )
Home at 1 am, and straight to bed - back to work this morning...
Hooray, hooray, it's pay day. The BACS glitch thankfully didn't affect me, and I bagged a welcome back-dated pay rise and some excess hours worked last month. For the first time in more than a year, I'm financially comfortable and in no need of missing football matches to make ends meet. Touch wood.
Unsurprisingly, was tired through most of the morning. Come 12.40 I did a whole interview feeling half asleep! At 2.10 I got a lady willing to answer for both herself and her partner. The last thing I wanted was to miss the bus - I had stuff to do after work - so wrote a message on a piece of paper asking for someone to relieve me by 2.25, stood up (all the while carrying on interviewing, and betraying no sign of rufflement to the blissfully unaware lady on the other end), waved the bit of paper and tried to catch Christine #3's eye. After some minutes, Sally appeared and took the paper from me, then at 2.21 she returned and tapped me on the shoulder. I finished the section I was asking my lady, explained to her that I was handing her over to Sally, and hopped into an adjacent workstation to look at my internal e-mail and enter my payclaim.
In the end, the bus was a quarter of an hour late anyway.
Went into Gosport to buy a Mars & Friends Easter egg, a big posting box, a roll of masking tape and a roll of bubble wrap, sit in the Post Office assembling the box, packing and taping, and send the egg off to Lady Mélisande. Once that was done, moved on to the shoe shop to buy a pair of US Brass, as the sole of one of my Richleighs is now the consistency of paper in places and extremely close to having a hole.
Home to book the flights for my holiday - cheap thrill!
