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Date: 15 January 2007 23:43:49
As I've noted before, if I'm busy I don't have time to blog, and if I'm not busy I don't have anything to blog about. It was the latter this week.
So, here are a few random thoughts that have cropped up this week:
1) There are an awful lot of people who walk through our office (and not just round the sides, sometimes straight down the middle of the office as well) without any explanation of who they are or why they're passing through our office. Today we had a classic - a girl who none of us had ever seen before walked in and went to start using our photocopier. She didn't get far, however, because she didn't have a code to type into the copier to access it (this is used both for security, and to identify which department's copying it is, so that we don't get charged for other people's copies and vice versa). She asked someone how it worked, and they explained that she needed to put her department's budget code in, and she said she didn't know what the code was and could she borrow our code 'cause she was only making one copy of one sheet, and my colleague said no, she'd need to use her own department's code, and the girl went off to find out what it was and never returned. We still have no idea who she was or why she had descended on our copier.
2) Much as I love living with my housemates, at least most of the time, I'm ready to not live with them now. I don't know exactly what's going to happen when I move away from here a few months from now, but I'm hoping I'll either be able to live by myself or possibly with one other person. I've had enough of having to coordinate what times everyone needs to use the bathroom in the morning, I've had enough of chasing (or more usually forgetting to chase) people for their share of the bills, and I just want more freedom and space to myself. I'm ready to move on.
3) Last summer, before I was off ill, I got into the habit of getting off the train a stop early and walking into work. When I returned from being ill, I couldn't be bothered. Then I decided I should start again. But the weather has been so miserable the last couple of weeks, that I couldn't guarantee I wouldn't get soaked either on the way there or back. But today was dry, so I walked it for the fist time in four months, and it felt really good. And tomorrow, I don't have an urgent phone call to make, so I won't have to walk at shin-aching pace to catch the train home in the evening. Which should make it more enjoyable.
4) I'm sure there was something else... no, it's gone.