Action on the Radio

Check it out, yeah? Our first brush with the BBC!

You have about 24 hours to listen to it, I think.....

Strait

So I'm in the final strait at work, with two and a half working days to go. You may notice my blog updates since Christmas have been occasional, at best. This is actually intentional. I'm quite concerned about writing honest appraisals of the different interviews and meetings with employment agencies that I've had, because a negative remark might not look all that appealing to a prospective employer that has the foresight or the inclination to google my name, or variations on my name. I've just sent an email reply to a school friend's email about this. Do you notice just how circular this situation is becoming? I can't write anything in case it looks unfavourable, so I write here that I can't write anything in case it looks unfavourable. Which in itself might imply that I was going to have something unfavourable to write and therefore a prospective employer might be wary anyway. Oh hell.

I'm going to have to spend this weekend clearing up my desk and all the correspondence I've never quite got round to, and then hopefully leave things in a good order for my successor, Zaheer, to take over.

Then, my plan for next week is to sign up to some temping agencies and to investigate computer qualifications I could do in a short time period. As ever, so much to do!

Oh yes, yesterday I discovered that there are some pretty cool photos of an Action and Action gig we did at the Wheatsheaf in Oxford last month that you can see at this page.

Anyway, just bear with me until I secure stable employment before I actually write down my thoughts on the topic. If you care.

Dolly Mixtures

My feelings recently have been pretty mixed.

On the one hand, I'm really looking forward to living in Winchester, so that I can see Naomi much more often - this is going to be wonderful - but a part of me is also going to miss being in London, where I have quite a few friends, and where it's relatively easy to meet up with people. I don't actually know anyone at all from Winchester apart from Naomi and her family. I guess starting the second band I've had in my head for some time (and it's developed far enough as an idea that I actually have a bunch of potential names for it already) might be the answer to that. I certainly intend to keep coming back to Uxbridge for Action and Action stuff at weekends, but then I still need to make sure that I have something to interest me during the week as well.

The other reason I'm a bit nervy at the mo is that I don't yet have a job to go to in Winchester, and time is running out before I leave this one. I also have a great desire to achieve some things I've always wanted to do whilst in this post, and I don't exactly have loads of time to do those things either. I have an interview this week, so we'll see if anything comes of that, I suppose. Wish me luck.

And then there are things I've seen and heard in other people's lives recently that have upset me somewhat. A friend of mine who probably doesn't read this blog has recently seen the end of his marriage, which I happened to blunder onto in conversation, unknowingly. I know I can't fully grasp how he's feeling, but I have still been pretty down for the last week or so, having seen the terrible effect on him. It always upsets me when I'm told about friends' relationships ending, and I do believe that people are better off together than single, but I felt that this was particularly a awful case and I can truly feel a small part of that hurt on his behalf. Also, a workmate of mine is being put through the mill at the moment for other reasons. It's harrowing, and there's not a great deal anyone can do about it for now.

It's horrible feeling powerless.