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The Rantings of Escaped Experiment-626
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| Hello all.
I realise I have not really spoken to anyone properly since the trip to Sian's (two months ago??!!!) - and I feel bad for being quite so rude to you all.
However life the last couple of months has been utterly insane, work went into overdrive for the last two months of term (ended up pulling SERIOUS unpaid overtime - kids went mad, lots of after school actvities to run, not to mention working a 22 hour day to take a group of year 7's to France!!!). Plus add on top of that organising a move out of Cheltenham and back to Ledbury (which is imminent) before moving on to Southampton - AND organising all the paperwork for So'ton (which is vast) and completing my first few assignments (YES that's right, I have assignments - plural - and this is two months before I even start).
However, I do now have a very lengthy holiday ('though I'm looking for work over it) - during which I intend to get back in touch with you all!
Hope everyone is well!
I look forward to hearing your news.
Oli | comments: Stake Here!   |
| Short sharp and snappy update - As of September I now have the option of being a Southampton Uni student on the PGCE course! Went for the inteview yesterday, found out today! This is why I've been so quiet over the last few weeks. Didn't want to jinx anything!
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| So; My LJ attendenced (like Alex's) seems to be sporadic, I'm on here for ages posting away, then I go for weeks without visiting (same with Facebook at the moment).
So, stuff is mostly going great, I'm sorted (I hope) life-direction-wise, I'm much more confident in myself and generally a happier person.
Yet the last two weeks seem to have derailed me slightly; crappy week at work, some shitty stuff with certain people letting me down and some other rubbish have left me feeling a bit crap and not really very talkative.
So I'm sorry if I've not been in contact, normal service will hopefully be resumed later this week, love to you all.
Me!
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| Hello all!
I was going to post about how life is going at the moment (really well as it happens) and update on news ETC. But have just had the never-ending day of horror at work (in dire need of getting out of here!) and post would be horribly depressing and not at all a true reflection of what's actually going on. So, watch this space! I intend to get in touch with you all at some point over the next couple of weeks (my phone minutes come through tomorrow - WOO!).
Blog Coming Soon! | | comments: Stake Here! |
| | Hello LJ, I am alive...honest. Post coming soon... | | comments: Stake Here! |
| ...And in other news; yesterday was the first day of my new (proper) job at Cleeve School; why yes, it does feel like frickin' months since I got offered the job. Probably because it IS, but actually I'm very glad to have started. So far no kids as we've had an inset day so far. But they return today, so, er...gulp.
I've been given year 7 - basically the hardest and easiest year rolled into one. So today could be quite 'interesting'.
Anyway, longer post coming later.
Love to you all.
Gotta run...
(PS all this is being written on my new free laptop from work).
Apologies for random album quote in title... | | comments: Stake Here! |
| Ok, so as most of you know; a significant amount of Gloucestershire is underwater at the moment. It's really weird to see the places I grew up and the town I'm currently living in being described as crisis centres, highly surreal.
Thankfully both my Cheltenham house and my home in Ledbury have survived the flooding; however, I'm completely without water (as are the whole of Gloucestershire) for up to two weeks - this means no shower, no washing machine, no flushing toilet.
- Showering consists of strip-washing or using baby-wipes.
- To flush a toilet you have to pour a ridiculous amount of water into the toilet bowl.
- We're having to be really careful about washing up and remembering which container of water (every possible vessel in our kitchen is filled with water) is which.
I don't know whether I'm going to be able to get to my destination this weekend as no-one seems sure whether Cheltenham railway station is still underwater or not.
My work, unlike most other businesses in Glos., refuse to close instead they have implemented a 'flood toilet policy' for their staff; basically this consists of all 30 odd staff members using one toilet, and notifying the 'designated toilet staff' once you have done so so that they can empty it out or flush it...this is so far from ideal; I'm sure health and safety would have a field day.
The most frustrating thing is that, despite the number of broadcasts about the flooding, ironically there seems to be very little news; none of us are being told how long we'll be without water or power, whether we can get out of the county or not; and those news reports we are being given all seem to contradict each other, with half saying we'll be without water for two weeks, while half say it'll be a matter of days.
I suppose we'll just have to see whether the water level in the severn goes down.
On the plus side, Transformers was awesome, I'm not a big fan of brainless action movies, but this was really good, very epic and quite funny in places.
I also finished Harry Potter on Sunday afternoon, which was remarkably slow for me as I finished the previous one in about a day.
Anyway, I'm off to try and get some more information from work, so I'll update again when I know more. | | comments: Stake Here! |
| Post coming soon I promise; it's not here so far for the following reasons:
1) Most of Cheltenham is underwater and Ledbury is currently an Island - this means that the central telewest server for the street has drowned (I'm internetting in the Library at the moment), it means my plans to go to Winchester this weekend have had to be postponed - as currently there are between 500-1000 people stuck at Gloucester station From Yesterday, to top it all off I can't go home (family home anyway) as thee's no access to Ledbury from anywhere.
Found out last night that my friends had to close the restaurant of their hotel to act as a rescue shelter giving out blankets ETC. The properties we manage at my work that had been flooded four weeks ago had finally dried out...they're now re-flooded.
So things are a bit manic here.
2) I've had no free time in the last two weeks; with the exception of a bit of time last Monday and Tuesday evening (about 2 hrs for each), I've had no chance to sit down, collect my thoughts, browse on the internet or do anything relaxing. So it makes for a werid change of pace to have a weekend where I now CAN'T do anything.
3) Been meeting the 'new' family members - finally got to meet my cousins last week when we went to see my Auntie, which was quite cool. Steve, the one that's my age, works for ITV and has offered to try to get me some work experience and hopefully a runners job (woo!). It was really nice to meet them and feels like we've known them for a lot longer than a month...weird.
4) Transformers and Harry Potter 7 (the book) are out today. As soon as I finish this post, I'm going to be unavailable for the next few hours in a massive geek fest.
5) The Torchwood car has gone; ok, so this one isn't affecting my posting ability, but I noticed it on Thursday during my walk and reminded me just how geeky these people are. He he he.
ANYWAY: Meet up planning will resume when they've drained Ledbury and allowed it to rejoin the rest of England (rather than the independent Island it's become).
Also:
Plans to see Laura in Bristol, Alex and co. In Exeter, Sian in Brum and Jon - if Wooton isn't underwater, all happening very soon.
Right post done, love to you all! | | comments: Stake Here! |
| | Tags: | phew | | Current Music: | Kate Nash - Dickhead (Why you bein' such a?) | | Current Location: | 'Nam | | Security: | | | Subject: | LONG POST AHOY! | | Time: | 10:00 pm | | Current Mood: |  thankful |
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| Right, post as promised:
I’ve been immensely crap at posting recently (I know, I’m a bad person) – primarily this is because I have been honestly very busy – both with work and socially. ( text ) | | comments: Stake Here! |
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