Do I always end up working in jobs that involve crazy working times?

For example I’m working 5AM….yes 5AM on Saturday, though what makes it more weird is that it’s only till 9am. Which means I’ll have the rest of the day to myself still…

In other random news, I got Heroes S2 on the go since I think it’s time I catch up on that, and I was starting to get bored with nothing to watch.

Twitter got back to my error report email to say:

Hi,

Thanks for your email. This is a bug; we’re working on fixing it. I’ll be in touch with you when we’ve resolved it. Sorry about that, and thanks for your patience!

Cheers,
Crystal

Great, so I can read all your lovely twits but I can’t respond when I’m out and about on the go. Ah well.

And dammit, I don’t have time to finish this brew.

Must try and be productive today even though I will most likely be shattered.

Off to the exceedingly early but short grind…

Okay…this actually ain’t too bad…Being awake at 6amish listening to Smashing pumpkins, eating cereal even though you’re not really that hungry yet it just…seems like the most logical step.

Off to work for four hours then going to return wondering what the hell to do with myself for the rest of the day…

Look on the bright side, it’s a glorious sunny day - the sky is singing, the birds are swaying ( - Dylan Moran), and after I finish work I can go do some tasty photolising action. Speaking of which, I think I shall get my 18-55mm sent off again since the AF has been broken on it for a while. Though I’m not sure, it could be the  body’s sensors they need cleaning? I’ll see what they think and whether I should send the body or lens

Gear I need

• Lens hood
• Wireless remote switch
• Micro gorilla pod or similar
• A good zoom lens
• A nice wide angle lens

Gargh, I wish my mother would stop harassing me, it somewhat infuriates me when she’s even TRYING to run around after me at 6am in the morning. I think she’s bonkers, why can’t she just let me get on with it, and trust my sense of judgement. GARGH too many words of a pissed off vein to spill for me to have time to do it, so I’m going to feck off and I’ll vent later.

Ah a catch up list is called for methinks…

• Been away for the weekend, was most enjoyable involving the likes of bowling (my arm hurts and I suck), cooking (pasta goodness), baking (CAKE!), maybe some wine (only with the food…and cooking), swings (Weeee!) and some tasty tasty sushi (while having to feed a invalid who couldn’t use chopsticks ;P)
• Financially bollocked - no spending! Apart from on petrol (bloody money water) and maybe if I go for a drink in the weekend.
• Just got a lovely letter from the Student loans company, oh yes, you now owe us £99999999999999999, 9247897483467893y4893278327, 9324793490374 more moneh than you did last year. Soz
• Feeling good about photography lately, new people seem to be acknowledging my ability which is nice. Plus Leon loves the photos from the wedding I took, so that’s kinda making me feel more encouraged to head towards shooting weddings. I do need to get some skills/training in handling flash though. I like it that something I’ve created can make people smile, and that I would be capturing something simple and wonderful.
• I need to find a quick way of making money (without selling ones body and self respect)
• Need to stop chewing my nails gargh
• Start new position tomorrow, welcome to the world of early starts again - oh heck

Yeah I think I’m quite busy at the moment, still generally bored though, I mean my to do list is overflowing, but it’s all just your every day boring random tasks. There’s no real excitement - le sigh.

Twitter is peving me off because it won’t let me twitter from my phone telling me my pin is invalid, when I don’t have a pin set - what a gayer. Plus they seem to be having problems in general and turned out their api stuff - get your act together twitter!

Ah I better go and do stuff and try not to spend money by just existing, plus I want to do a cloning shot today for 365…

Okay, so I decided to increase my web app stuff, and decided to give ‘Remember the milk‘ a spin. It’s basically a kinda cool online app for to organising to do lists. Since I decided I wanted a GTD app, then decided against a desktop based app because I’m very ‘on the go’ minded, as I like everything online so I grab at it from anywhere, I eventually settled on this site.

Bob had already mentioned remember the milk to me a while back, though I’d already read about it on lifehacker way way before that but never felt the need for it. Now I’m trying to be proactive I think tis a good idea yar. Plus the cool thing of being able to integrate it into my gcal makes it a very wise choice indeed. Essentially I can task manage from my gcal without needing to go into the RTM site. Sweett.

In other news, I’ve started to drink more coffee, though I’ve determined I’m a latte drinker, not a coffee drinker since I had a coffee for lunch and it tasted like shit, then I had another latte from the italian and it was bloody gorgeous. I think I should totally check out this latte scene, I mean I’m still mad on tea don’t get me wrong. I had a bloody awesome brew after my tests yesterday - brew from tea leaves and not bags always seem to taste better.

I’m still in a financial crisis, so the best thing I can do now is try and reduce the damage as much as I can. Fortunately I’m on my new hours from next week, so this means I can cut out costs on food, therefore my main costs will be on petrol. Unless I get a full time job - then the damage limitation will be better. I need to push to make money though, must must must, the key is in the money.

Hehe had a slight banter earlier on twitter about needing to win the lottery, and Bob suggested we used the numbers in Lost to see if we’d win it, though I pointed out I was already unlucky enough as it is!

Right, am busy-busy, but first…photos…

Alright, alright I was totally bricking it earlier - though in theory I had nothing to be worried about as the level of knowledge/ability required was pretty much sub-GCSE level.

Anyhow the tests were as followed:

Literacy -

You have a short paragraph/letter thingy, you need to circle the mistakes. Pretty easy as it was dead simple things but then I worried a little as I could only find about 12/13 mistakes when there were meant to be 15 :/ I must say it really pushed my observation/spelling skills to the limit. I’m quite a fast reader usually, and so I had to proper slow down and pay attention. I’m just glad I didn’t have to write the corrections too else I would have definitely been screwed!

Numeracy -

I actually worked out I’m still; pretty sharp with the maths/working out stuff thing. The test consisted of this information sheet with lists of figures regarding rooms in some evening school. You used in the information to work out the answers - it was multiple choice, so you had 1 in 4 chance shot at it anyway. And the most complicated it got was dealing with ratios and percentages.

I think the hardest part of it all wasn’t the tests themselves but the time limits, 8mins for the literacy and 18mins for the numeracy. It was all about working fast but accurately, and I realised that the reason you had a calculator wasn’t for the complicated maths, but for the speed element. Seriously I literately circled my last answer in the last few moments of the numeracy test.

So yeah, nothing to be scared about really, and most important of all - I passed. Wooo! (All the people in my group passed heh). So onwards to the next hoop to jump…

This morning’s opening features coco pops, tea and the uplifting sounds of The Smiths.

So I crashed really early yesterday and I may have finally forced myself to get some sleep, despite the struggle due to cold feet issues and generally being cold, and even then I snapped wide awake before my alarm was due to go off. I guess I can look on the bright side, I technically don’t feel sleep deprived for once before work, that’s a pretty rare moment - one I should probably savour.

Work…

It feels odd to go back to this routine of the olde daily grind, well not really odd, it’s like you get use to doing one thing, then another thing, then you get thrown back to doing the old thing again and you just got to get on with it. Which, isn’t that bad except if I remember rightly I was getting so bored of my current job, that I was being extremely passive and I was actually mentally struggling to get through the day because of the monotony.

One more sleep and I’m fecking off to Leeds for the weekend anyway. There I shall probably eat sushi and socialise with real human beings who actually may want my company for a short while, which kicks the shit over being here and so bored out of my fucking skull I just realised I am now currently up to date with watching Scrubs. And I can ensure you I am neither proud or thrilled that I was that bored/sad/oh woe is me enough to cane through that many Scrubs episodes in such a small space of time.

Maybe I place too much of a heavy emphasis on other people around me;

“In my life
Why do I give valuable time
To people who don’t care if I live or die ?”

Who knows.

Off I go anyway, to the daily grind…grind grind grind….grind grind grind grind grind grind grind…

So Nick got back to me and managed to sell my ticket for £90 which though isn’t amazing is thankfully more than I was realistically hoping for. Oh well it’s done and dusted now, and it just means I’m £90 less debt for my Reading ticket :) And I just have to remember that money is money at the end of the day, it comes and goes, and you deal.

Been feeling really good for just real reason, I’m very optimistic about being better in time for next weekend. As long as all my pox has scabbed up then I am no longer contagious so people will actually come near me again and I can go near people hurrah!

I’ve started the job hunt again, the goal is still the same, work near London, work in London, work by London - you get the jist.

Going to work on Portfolio tonight then finish the evening with a film.

Only bad thing is that I’ve been chewing my nails bad again, they’re growing so short I actually do fear I will eventually find a way to chew off my entire nail :/ not good.