Wow, it never shines but it fuckin' BLAZES

*SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE*
Got my copy of Kate and Leopold in the mail from Eek this morning!!! \^V^/

*does the happy dance of joy*

Oh, and my mum has been lurking outisde my door for 3 hours, waiting for me to wake up, clutching a letter from the court services people in her hot, sticky little paws because she is SO damned excited about the prospect of this job.
Me, I really don't give a fuck, a job is a job is a job and it's only for a few months anyway. Her on the other hand, she was bouncing up and down on the stairs in excitement while I was still blinking dumbly going *Meh... too early... bed good...*
*rolls eyes* jesus woman, you're so excited about it why didn't you go for it? ^^;;

Though I'm wondering if I'm feeling needlessly jaded about it because they did take so freaking long to get back.
The interview's on the 4th September BTW.


My current concerns lie in the amount of holiday time I'm going to be taking in my first year. This is the big pain in the ass. I'm taking a solid 3 weeks in May, maybe longer. Then another week in Autumn. I'm just worried that I'm not going to be able to get the time off.
At least with a crap job you can quit and get a different crap job when you get back. These court service people are looking for a 5 year commitment... which is all fine and dandy, sounds great to me because it's 12 grand a year and rising. it's a really, really GOOD job... but I really am worried that it's going to severely dent into my ability to travel like I want.

Which is, in essence, the whole point of working in the first place.

I think, if I remember rightly, it's 21 days paid annual leave plus the 10 days national holiday.
21 days... well there's my 3 weeks in Canada, but if that overspills I'm screwed.
And unless the holiday calculating doohickey cycles over between May and Autumn I'm also screwed for New York. >.<
I wonder if you can take unpaid leave... I wonder if that would work... ^^;;
Cause I can't even request that they ciphon my holiday off nexy year's because who knows what the crap I'll be doing next year... Vermont and Colorado problably. Maybe even Vancouver again... it all depends on what great and glorious meetings are taking place.

And yes, it is a little worrying that I'm calculating my travel plans to co-inside with Hugh... ^^;;;;>

Addendum

Mum pointed out that holiday weeks are calculated in 5s cause they won't employ me on the weekends anyway, so 21 days is actually just over 4 weeks. Secondly she was convinced it was 28 days, but *shakes head* it's all too confusing and my brain hurts ^^;;

I was going through the paperwork they sent this morning. It's all health and wellbeing forms for the civil service pension scheme... which s a yummy nice slice of money should I be forced to retire.
Mum's SO painfully excited. She's spring(summer) cleaning the kitchen at the moment, but she's painfully chipper while doing it.
John, on the other hand, is just wishing she'd shut the hell up cause he's fed up of hearing about it XD
He's also fed up that, should I get this job, it's 12 grand and rising. I'll be earning more than everyone but mum and if it gets a LOT higher I could be earning more than anyone.
Mum pointed out that this is a good thing. In 5 years I could put myself through uni, buy a house and get a bloody car that worked... ^^;;
Which, y'know... would be nice... especially that bit about a car that works...
Heh, I could irk the shit out them and get a new one every 3 years... *snork*


I really want to watch this K&L DVD I got earlier, but mum's spring cleaning and keeps hoovering round the living room. And John's sitting around down there looking accusing every time I poke at my DVDs... ^^;;
I showed him that it arrived this morning and he was thoroughly underwhelmed... ^_^

Damnit, I want to see those deleted scenes!! Even if can currently only watch them in B&W till I get this NTSC colour decoder sorted out... Damnit, I want to watch it anyway!
*Kicks the rest of the family out of the living room*

Eh, they're all down there watching the scrolling headlines on BBC News24 because of those girls that went missing the other week. Looks like they've arrested that caretaker and his girlfriend for it. That was pretty much a full gone conclusion after parking 12 police vans outside their house and having a hellicopter circling for most of last night while they searched the building.
Forensics, dogs, the lot...
*shrugs* Subtlety isn't the Met's strongest point ^^;
Mum's just generally annoyed that these parents didn't even question where their kids were going before they let them out of the house.
At their age I was hardly let anywhere on my own, and when I did then people always knew where I was going. I just find it odd that, after growing up in an atmosphere like that, people can be so lax about keeping an eye on their kids.
I mean, yes it doesn't help that the girls knew the caretaker and his girlfriend from school, but still...
*shrugs*
Doesn't matter now anyway I guess.


And on a totally unrelated note, I am getting so fed up of fanfiction.net crashing my browser... >.<
I don't even know why the hell I go there, it's 98% unfiltered drivel anyway. I just vaguely pop by now and then in the hopes that something at least half decent is happening and end up getting my browser crashed.
Dunno why I bother. Especially now that the default filter is set on PG-13 people seem to have forgotten that you can post SMUT THERE...
OK, so the smut was also 98% unfiltered drivel too, but just every now and then you stumbled over something not quite so abysmal...


Started a new little artistic project last night on the great WTHKOPITA illustration battle. I've been playing with Adobe and arsing around with some photos. It came out pretty good actually, I'm quite pleased.
The guy really doesn't look THAT much like I really needed him to, but... it's good enough to get the gist, y'know?
That and as an image, it's actually pretty spiffy ^__^

Addendum addendum... umumumumudududmum...

Urk, man, I am bored, hot and just ever so slightly cranky...

I'd open the window but it's hotter out there than it is in here ^^;

Just went to get the groceries with mum. That was thoroughly exciting, as you can imagine. *thump thump thump hump thump thump...*

That's the sound of me repeatedly beating my head against the desk BTW ^__^

I've been suffering from random bunny syndrome again. I have a new random scene buzzing in my head but no energy or currently enthusiasm to write it.
It's also got no acompanying plot, it's just a random moment. This seems to be happening a lot of late and it's annoying as all hell.
So many stories on the go, so little will to do anything.

Oh, and Allende pointed out that those missing girls snuck out without telling anyone so my comment about their parents was in bad taste.
I didn't know, they never seem to mention that on the news and all I ever hear is mum's opinion on the matter so... there we go. One somewhat moot point. I apologise.