Categories: teaching, nursing, food
Tags: job, Open Uni, Thanksgiving
Date: 13 October 2009 12:03:00
Yesterday I celebrated Canadian Thanksgiving with a few people from church (one of the hosts is Canadian, unsurprisingly). Sometimes it is really good to have eyes bigger than your stomach - the food was so good, but I packed it in anyway and just had to suffer later (it's a hard life).
Today I am thankful that at long long long long last my Disclosure Scotland form arrived. This is the form that confirms that I am not an axe-murderer or otherwise unsuitable for working in the NHS, and was the one thing holding me up actually starting my job. Actually it transpires it's not the only thing holding me up, as I have just discovered that the line manager is on holiday so HR are having to wait for someone else to confirm I can start. If I have any say in the matter I think I want to start in just under a fortnight, rather than next week - that way I can have a mad thesis frenzy before I start, and to be honest one more week's debt isn't going to make all that much difference after all this time.
I'm also thankful that some of my OU students are starting to make some tentative steps on using the discussion forum, which means I am not Jackie-no-mates in there any more and am not feeling like I'm totally useless at it. So that's good.