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Monday, July 26th, 2010
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4:41 pm
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I am too hot. It is disgustingly hot and sweaty in this office.
Also, I am spotty. Grim state of affairs.
I'm writing this because I recently rediscovered my 11 year old diary and remembered how much I love reading my diaries. So I'm going to try and start this one up again...
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| Thursday, February 19th, 2009
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2:07 pm
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In New York, having an amazing time but slightly stressed about money, as is Anna... but the sun is shining and we might go skating in Central Park in a bit, so who cares? Also a bit fat what with all the Reece's.
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| Saturday, April 14th, 2007
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10:10 am
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I need to stop drinking so much. I got very drunk with people from work last night, and while I don't think that that was that embarrassing, I came home and had a silly fight with my family about DVDs of all things. And I generally feel a bit rubbish. Maybe swimming would help...
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| Thursday, March 8th, 2007
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9:45 am
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Last night, Alex took a few of us from work to a private karaoke booth in Soho. I don't remember the last time I had so much fun. We sang and sang and sang in our padded booth for 3 hours and I could have stayed for hours longer. Everyone should try this as it brings great joy.
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| Tuesday, January 9th, 2007
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10:10 am - For me, 2006 was...
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| Saturday, September 23rd, 2006
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2:46 am
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Tonight I am mostly drunk and annoyed with Mike. More anon.
But I went to an absolutey wonderful club just off Oxford street. So so so good I wanted to stay forever...and now I'm eating lots of food like a bad person.
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| Tuesday, September 19th, 2006
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5:26 pm
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Went to City Lit to sign up for my drama class yesterday and they wouldn't let me on the one I wanted to do – apparently its for professional actors. Don't they know who I am? Honestly. It was a seriously embarrassing interview – 'so, which parts have you played? Oh, you were only Juliet in Measure? (It's called Measure for Bloody Measure – bloody thesps, next he'll be asking me to act out scenes from the Scottish Play) And have you studied any Stanislavsky or Meisner?' er – no. So he said I needed a good, solid, serious acting class because I didn’t have any knowledge of acting theory. And here I was hoping I could just read off the page and become the next Scarlett Johannsen. So anyway, I signed up to this class that goes on for 3 hours every Saturday afternoon in a fit of enthusiasm. I want theory! I wanna know who these dudes with the weird names are! Etc. What have I let myself in for? Bet Keira never had to actually learn stuff to get parts.
Going through the prospectus was so exciting – I want to do every course they offer. Children's TV presenting anyone? Completely made for me! They also have an accredited musical theatre course – would obv never get on it but my master plan is to do acting courses, then singing courses and then some jazz dance and then try out. And then set Broadway ablaze with my sparkling personality and staggering natural talent.
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| Tuesday, August 15th, 2006
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9:48 am
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I can't quite get the hang of the weather here at the moment - too cold and too hot at the same time. Tsk. Am longing for Autumn - I have this strange back-to-school urge to buy new stationary, and I've started thinking about Christmas. Slightly sick and wrong.
Woke up this morning with this awful sense of dread, but not sure what it is that I could be dreading. Work is fine, though my inability to get in before 9.35 makes me feel a bit guilty all the time, and the RSI is slightly getting on my nerves. I think I'm dreading moving home a bit - it's definitely happening now, at the end of September. I know it's for the best, but I'm so going to miss my flat, and Mo and Nick...have started to organise my parents' flat to make it more habitable anyway. Off to buy boxfiles this weekend, making my mother throw things away, etc etc.
And there are so many plus sides...home cooked food! Cheap rent! No bills! And it's not for ever. I hope.
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| Thursday, July 27th, 2006
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3:02 pm
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Mike has gone away for a month, which is rather sad, and I am baby-sitting gran and Jack for the week. Went to a pub quiz with work colleagues last night, and we came second, which was quite satisfying...
In other news: London is still ridiculously hot, and I have started taking diet and exercise tips from Oprah.
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| Tuesday, June 20th, 2006
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2:45 pm
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I am BACK
Tomorrow is my last day at WORK
My evil boss has left me alone in the OFFICE so I can mess around on the NET
Life is sweet.
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| Sunday, June 18th, 2006
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1:14 pm
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I have finally reached the last day of my 3-week epic assessment centre somewhere in the East Midlands. I have had 1 day off in the last month. Slightly unbelievable, but true. Have left the conference centre a grand total of 3 times in the last weeks, onc e to go clubbing in Derby which was a complete and utter car crash for many reasons. Not entirely convinced I can remember how to behave like a normal person, buy things in shops, etc.
Still - credit cards will be paid off, and on Wednesay I am leaving for EVER. The assessors have all been very sweet, and have told me they'll miss me...Sir Hugh said 'bugger' when I said I was going- knew he loved me. Also met up with my grandmother and one of my aunts for the first time in several years...they're both much fatter and have aged considerably - they looked like they had melted and then sort of solidified again.
Di has been a omplete nightmare, of course, but at least the others have finally seen what she's like, and at least I'm leaving.
Can't wait to get back to London for cherry beer, swimming in Hampstead ponds, culture and FRIENDS and Michael who is very sweetly going to meet me at the station tomorrow. I'm strangely nervous about seeing him.
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| Wednesday, May 17th, 2006
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2:54 pm
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Here are the best and worst things from the last few weeks:
The Sultan's Elephant was the Best Thing Ever. Went with mum and Steffi, watched the Took a few rubbish photos with my phone which I will try and upload...bizarrely ran into Muffy and Vanessa from school as well as Laura's sister Becky.
Following that elephant and the little girl around London made me so ridiculously happy - possibly one of the happiest days I can remember. I can't remember the last time I was so Amazed. It was so incredibly touching, too - I want more.
Also good - have decided to get into AMDRAM. Slightly makes me twitch when I think about it, but there's a production of Abigail's Party coming up - how can I resist?
This is partly influenced by me seeing Guys and Dolls - best muscial ever, and I wanted to sex both Adam Cooper and Neil Morrisey. Shocking even to myself.
Another good thing is that I've had lots of job interviews. I didn't get the job at DK, but I didn't want it, and I got quite nice feedback - 'I didn;'t feel Kate would be challenged by this role, as she's taken ona lot of responsibility in her current job. Looking at her experience I also feel she would be better suited to a fiction role.' Yes yes, but I need a JOB.
Had a slightly creepy interview for Usborne Rights, interviewed for the same job by the same woman as I was a year ago. She didn't recognise me, but it felt extremely weird. I also had an interview for an editorial job at Usborne - I now have to write the first chapter of a book for 6-7 year olds about the olympics, and suggest ideas for pictures etc - if I worked for Usborne I'd also write the books. I want that job.
Bad things: I have run out of money, which I suppose is what happens when you take off to Morocco for 3 weeks... my parents will probably have to rent our flat to pay off the mortgage, which means if I move home it will be very temporary,and I'll have to pay nearly as much rent as I'm paying now - a little bit tricky but could be worse - most people in London can't run back to their parents when they're poor/ unemployed. Feel more sorry for poor Jack who will be homeless in the holidays, but I suppose he can have my flat and I'll stay with Michael when that happens.
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| Thursday, May 4th, 2006
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11:25 am
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Back at work and already fuming...Evil Boss wants me to stay behind in London while Jo and Rich go to Cambridge for a residential marking conference. The marking conference would mean Big Money, which I desperately need as I've been away without pay for 3 weeks and am leaving here asap but still have rent to pay. Jo and I were orginally meant to be sharing the workload...ugh. It wouldn't be so bad, even with the loss of cash, if Di isn't here with me. If I have to spend a week alone with her I really think I'll walk out of the office.
In other news I had a job interview today for an Assistant Revisions Coordinator job at DK travel guides.
Good things - it's in the Penguin Group, I like travel guides, the people seemed nice, it's a publishing job, and it's NOT AT THE HOME OFFICE, which everyone now knows to be a den of sin and complete incompetence.
Bad things - it's not at all like editing fiction, as the woman told me herself. It would be boring admin work (but then so would any starting job in publishing). It's only a 6 month contract. I asked what people move into afterwards and she said they often stay on, or get promoted into the next job up or move elsewhere in Dorling Kindersly. I am completely uninterested in moving elsewhere in DK - I want to work in Penguin or Puffin, really.
Even worse thing - I missed two calls from an HR assistant at Penguin while I was away. She wanted to ask me to interview for a PERMANENT editorial assitant job at Penguin Press, and a temporary publicity assistant job at Penguin Press. She claims she emailed me, but she didn't. I bloody missed the bloody interviews and I slightly want to bite off my own arm.
But turns out that me and Jo def have to leave here in July anyway, and that they're getting rid of Excel temps from the Home Office...wonder what young Michael will do?
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| Friday, April 28th, 2006
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1:44 pm
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I am in Morocco... will keep this short as I still haven't quite figured out how to use the keypads. Have had a wonderful few weeks. Michael is so incredibly un-annoying that I know I'm on to a good thing. Romantic, aren't I? In all seriousness, though, I think being able to spend 3 solid weeks together without getting irritable or running out of things to talk about must be a good sign.
Get a rising sense of panic whenever I think about going back to work, thoug, after my mega row with Di. I have an interview for a lowly job at DK travel guides as soon as I get back...pleasepleaseplease let me get it. Touch wood. Its only 6 months but its a start. Would prob have to leave my job extra early though, and that would be bad for my finances.
Off to eat some grilled fish now.
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| Tuesday, April 4th, 2006
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4:50 pm
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I am a bit ill. Being a bit ill is crap, as you don't have obvious enough symptoms to get any sympathy, but you still feel rubbish. Colds are particularly rubbish, as noone takes them seriously, and yet even my beloved solpadiene doesn't make me feel better.
In other news, I might climb the highest mountain in Africa in a few weeks. I'm vaguely worried I'll fall to my death, as I have a tendency to trip over things. I've also just read Into Thin Air, which is all about the 1996 Everest. Lots of people died - it's rather cold and hard to breathe up there, apparently - and others survived, but lost lots of limbs and had to have their noses rebuilt out of bits of their leg. I have very little urge to climb up and down big things for no reason.
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| Wednesday, March 29th, 2006
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3:01 pm
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I just chased Steve Jones down the road. He is incredibly fit.
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| Monday, September 12th, 2005
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11:07 pm
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I got drunk and now me and Marina are going to Barcelona for the weekend in December! Love cheap flights.
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| Tuesday, August 23rd, 2005
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1:20 pm
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Turns out I did pretty shockingly badly in several of my finals, narrowly missing 3rds in 2 papers. And they were pure Rachel Hewitt!
More shockingly I did quite well in Caribbean poetry. Wonders will never cease.
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| Tuesday, August 9th, 2005
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12:02 pm - p.s...
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Last night I dreamt that Nick threw me a really crap surprise party for some reason. It was crap becaue I didn't realise it was a party, though I was very thrilled indeed to find Ross and Heather and Marina sitting in my garden. They were the only guests. We had fun though. We drank orange juice.
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| Friday, August 5th, 2005
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6:16 pm
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I've got into a sort of non-livejournal habit for a while so I thought I'd update for larks. I am living at home, with Nick, which is going well. Noone wants to employ me excpet a temping agency who keep offering me jobs in the Home Office as I have security clearance...could definitely be worse.
But if anyone knows of a Fun Job which Pays Well, or even pays a bit, then let me know.
Current joys in my life include watching awful films and swimming in Hampstead Ponds. I also enjoy dreaming of what I would buy if I had any money at all. This is the life of a graduate...I'm beginnng to slightly wish I was going back to Ox, although every time I remember the pain of waking up at 4am/ staying up till 8am writing essays I remember why I was sort of glad to leave.
I may do something classy and grown-up now, like watching 13 Going On 30 while eating yet more hallumi cheese.
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