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Date: 03 April 2006 11:03:42
Things are all tricksome at the moment so I'll start with a piece of news that is at least good to me... Had been working on an intensive youthwork course in order to get a national qualification for the place I work at. Handed the stuff in at Christmas and found out a couple of weeks ago that I passed with flying colours, which is nice. Had the certification ceremony the other night and very pleasant it was too. Nice to meet up with people I'd spent so much time with out of hours and then hardly seen at all since. One slight issue was that as I was smiling for the photo my mind suddenly flashed up an image of the, frankly ludicrous, curtains that we stood in front of and it took a serious effort of will to keep a straight face so no idea what that photo will be like.
So anyhow, proper youthworker me now. None of this volunteer malarkey :) :) Nationally recognised one I is :) ((not that volunteer status made any difference to me, but you'd probably be amazed at how sniffey some colleagues could be when I'd say I was neither full time, nor paid for my youth group work, nor had any sort of certificate to back me up.... Now at least I've got one of the three)).
After that? Arts centre is tricksome, couple of diplomatic and staffing issues to be resolved which requires me to be firm and authoritarian... Which I can do, but take no pleasure in having to shout. Sigh. I don't look forward to the next couple of weeks.
Sylver 2 is spinning on the presses as we speak. Scared about that one as well. What if people don't like it. I mean I know that people are saying nice things... Chalk that one up to sleep deprived paranoia I think, I did my best and it'll do whatever it needs to do. Partially the motivation thing is an issue. Too tired to get into the big promoting thing (which primarily I'll be the one sorting out) when I know that of every 20 emails I send out I'll maybe get 2 replies. If I'm lucky.
We'll see. Today, having finished off one large job that should now be a tick on my list that I don't have to revisit, I'm looking forward to a little R and R. For one day at least. Although that's not true as I have a meeting tonight to go to and a couple later in the week to prepare for... Then a meeting next week that has already turned into a political nightmare before we even begin. Aaaargh!!! Mind melting.
Apart from that? Sunday school was impromptu - wifey was ill so had to change the content - but worked well... Um... College is off for three weeks which believe me is a blessed relief... Hopefully some free time now to work on a couple of contacts and the rest that came out of London BookFest which I've had no time to work up on since. Yup, therein lies my foolishness. Talking about finishing off work and spending the free time chasing up new stuff. Zany.
Newspaper project on the final straight, talk to be done about that later, hopefully in the next week or so.
Still praying for Rob, still hoping for a breakthrough.
Currently listening to: House of Heroes. Currently playing: Ta0p dancing through a political minefield. Current socks being worn: Mickey on grey authentic socks. My current favourites. Currently prayer requests: For Rob and fam.