Arrived at the lecture in the knowledge that I'd be the only one attending from my group. Tbh I don't really know why I bother going to them because we don't have an exam in that module... but yeah I'm too dutiful, it's hardwired into me! Confirmed the group for the presentation, had a word with him about Danielle (who later emailed us all to say she'd actually done the work which is a BIG relief).

It finished insanely early so I went down to the computer lab to work on the presentation and wait for Stu. Naz turned up a bit later in interview stuff, turns out she had a job interview a bit later. Mainly faffed around but we did actually get some minor work done.

Phoned up Stu only to have him say everything was fine with my diss so I said I was off to print it off. Drove home, read it through and then printed it off! O M G. It decimated its way through one brand new ink cartridge after finishing off the one that was already in there. One copy of my diss is 128 pages... so the poor printer ended up doing 256 in total... I thought it was going to die on me at one point.

Gathered the copies up and drove to uni again, too paranoid to have the windows down even though it was baking incase it flew out the window...

Took it to reprographics and had them both bound up and felt all full of pride and then got the flattest, most unimpressed hatch woman ever take it in... Like my mom said, they should have mandatory fireworks or a song or something... it's practically been a year of my life!

Picked mom up and then bought a shitload of chocolate from Asda to celebrate... haven't eaten it all. Did a very rare thing and bought one of McD's milkshakes... mmmmm so good. Better than a magnum! I don't care if they're full of salt and fat...

Given myself tonight off, tomorrow will be a different story ¬_¬ Need to get this stupid infopack out of the way so I can concentrate on my revision and other essay...

Fucking Step Up 2... I really hate and love this song atm, mainly because it is WEDGED inside my mind and I can't get it the hell out! Stupid credits... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F40zj5KJe4k

Really not looking forward to tomorrow... supposedly going to try and hand my diss in but I'll be surprised if I manage it...

It was absolutely baking when I was walking up to the school and then when I got there the teacher left to go to a hospital appointment and then the supply from last time showed up... in fairness he was much more effective this time. The kids however were in an absolutely foul mood, they were horrible. My group were just continually fighting each other and then the boy I'm mainly there to help was just a right little ***** to the point where I had to go and get said supply to come and talk to him because he'd really worked himself up.

Came home and did some more work in the info pack of infinite doom... done another 500 words so now I've only got 500 more. If I can get my diss in this week and get that done then I can start focussing on the exam...

Got an email off Laura saying she can't come to do the presentation on Tuesday because she's got to focus on diss stuff... which is fair enough but at the same time: grrrrr. The fact that Danielle hasn't responded to any emails at all really isn't helpful... if she doesn't turn up tomorrow she'll just have to send us what she does have to paste in. If she hasn't got anything, tough shit imo...

Lenka has started a new yoga class at the college over the road which was good. It was nice to go and know I wasn't going to have to do a 400 hour shift afterwards or be thinking "I could be in bed nooooow!".

I want uni to be over, but at the same time I don't because it's only highlighting the fact I need to find a job ¬_¬

Edit: UGGGGGGGGGGGH! Mom came in: So you're handing your dissertation in on Wednesday...? [This is after a whole week of her being shitty over the very idea and pretty much shoving me into doing it all tomorrow. Including that little helpful vote of confidence over the printer at one point stating "if it packs in you can go to Tesco and buy a new one" All, basically, because she's being petty over the car]
Me: ....no since you pretty much rubbished the idea and said I should do it all tomorrow
Mom: I did not! Blah blah **abouts to start into an argument**
Me: Yeah well whatever, if I can't get it done tomorrow it'll have to be Wednesday
Mom: Yes well of course...

WTF?!?!?

Found that on youtube there's not only whole episodes of the best series ever: Knightmare! But the program "through the dragon's eye!" Eeeeeh!

Work was... DEAD... which sucked because I was looking outside and at everyone dressed in nice summer clothes while wearing my gods awful uniform of doom ¬_¬

As a result there was a lot of pratting around today. Constructed a MASSIVE Prince of Caspian standee that has a throne built into it. So if you go to Showcase and see it admire but don't break it or I'll break you. It took me bloody ages to make even with Mike's assistance.

Then the box was hanging around so Mike propped it against the ticket pole and drew an usher on it, I contributed by cutting a slot for tickets. We knew that technology had finally replaced us.

Tbh I could easily see Delayney putting them into action... there are a load of (poorly spelt) dictator style messages all over the staff room about people daring to eat stuff from McDonalds and saying he banned it at the fire drill! 1) he never banned it, he just /suggested/ people ate at McD's 2) the food is so over priced it's about an hour's wage for a hotdog and a regular drink 3) we're not supposed to buy food from work anyway because we were supposedly banned from that!

It's the fact he's made a list of people he's caught and asked them to hand in a letter explaining why they did it that's just... the horribly funny thing about it. All hail mein Furher...

Then there were some kids kind of playing up in Iron Man sat /right/ at the front so I just walked over to ask the to sit properly and be quiet. Saw the security guard and said he might want to keep an eye on them just incase but that they'd been alright about it. Anyway, was checking the toilets when suddenly the mom shows up and wants to know what I said to her kids in the vein of "how dare you say anything to my kids". The fact she wasn't sat near them said it all imo. Anyway Mike backed me up and she seemed okay about it once I stated I'd just told them to sit properly in their chairs rather than clambering all over them.

Finalllly got home... nervous about handing my diss in on Tuesday... imo it'll be Wednesday but mom's got really precious about the car lately ¬_¬

POOR TEN!

**HUGGLES TEH DOCTOR!**

I mean I don't really like Jenny. She's too perky. But POOR Ten! Omg the poor guy! He's lost his family and then he gets another emotional kick in the face! When he seemed like he was going to shoot that guy he was sooooooooo hot. Angry!Tennant is extremely hot though... Also is it me or was Martha "crying" some of the worst acting of the series? That's second to that woman in the Patriot crying when Tavvy burns down the church.

So I did my stupid proposal for the other essay last night and sent it at 12.10... so I've no idea if it makes any sense. Doing it on domestic violence because that was the only contemporary topic I could think of that there was /anything/ on... I'm just going to have to make it bloody interesting.

Now done 1000 words on the information pack of DOOM. Fucking thing... I hate it. It's about a million times harder than an essay because I can't structure it like an essay and I have to keep thinking about the language I'm using ¬_¬ Grrr... hopefully if I make it pretty I'll get points...

Tai Chi was really good today. Saw pictures of the new mini Craig! He's named Sean but Andy thought it might be Cheng Man Swinnerton (the creator of our form was called Cheng Man-ch'ing) that or Han given that Craig's obsessed with Star Wars and that's the reason his first son is called Luke ^_^ Suuuuuuch a cute baby! Looks like he's going to have Neil Gaiman style hair like his Dad and his brother!

So glad I'm doing reasonable hours tomorrow! 12-8! IT'S GOING TO BE LIGHT WHEN I COME HOME!

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I'm not feeling so bad now but this morning that was pretty much how I felt.

Went on my emails for all my job stuff and there was a response, phoned them up and arranged an interview only to find out that it was /another/ agency... and I'm just sick of doing this and not getting anywhere with it. I mean no one can accuse me of sitting on my arse and not trying, non-teaching people at uni haven't even started looking really...

If there's one thing being made clear by the Fates it's what I'm /not/ meant to be doing with my life ¬____¬.

My copy of 1001 nights came yesterday, that's the Fables one btw. I've waited /ages/ for it and then you couldn't buy it anywhere for an age before I discovered they were selling it in paperback!

Started on my stupid "Information pack" assignment of doom... 493/2000 words... It doesn't help that the example he put up is supposedly 1500 but I swear it's not even that... it doesn't look like there's more than about 500 words in it! Grrr... That and I'm having no luck finding a contemporary issue for this stupid essay for David...

I'll soon find out if someone's watching my internet because this week I've mostly been searching: cults, drugs, domestic violence, anti social behaviour and language development in down syndrome.

Got up and the woman who didn't bother to call me yesterday phoned up to rearrange my phone interview. She said that the computer had gone down or something.

Took the dogs for a walk given that it was such a nice day and then spent the rest of the time working on my dissertation... Somehow I've managed to hack another load out of it but it cannae take no more cap'n! So I'm fighting the urge to muck about with it and trying to focus on the other 4000000 assignments etc

Started sticking together the bibliography for Stu's assignment and then saw that my exam is three weeks away... bugger bugger bugger!

Too much to do!

The phone interview was alright but then she said I need to sound more money motivated and stop getting clients and candidates mixed up @_@ She's going to phone me back on the 1st of June when everything's done.

Praying my diss doesn't need any last minute work now...

Soooo glad that David's assignment isn't in until the 10th omg! Even so I need to send him a mini proposal ¬_¬

Went into uni to find that Danielle and Laura weren't coming in despite the fact it was supposed to be the day that we sorted out our group presentation. You know, the one that's marked on both GROUP and individual performances? So anyway, Naz and I ended up sorting out the whole thing and then emailing them to tell them to do their bits... hm.

Came home and worked on that until 4 and I've kind of got it done.

Lorna sent back a very sharp response saying that our dissertations had to be under 8000 words... so I've got 900 words to make disappear and I don't know where I'm going to take them out from!

Waited around for my phone interview at four only she never called. I'm not going to cry over that one tbh because she was the one who bitched at me before. I'm just hoping I (even though no one else does it like this) wasn't supposed to call her. Hm, in any event she has my number...

I'm going to dedicate this week to uni work anyway I think...

Can't believe the great weather today! It was amazing! If it's the same I'll take the pooches for a walk I think...

I'm seriously freaking out about job stuff... I know that yes some people haven't even begun looking etc... but it's just making me feel ill... I don't know what I'm going to do if I can't get a job doing this recruitment stuff... I'm just... ugh... I just feel like I should have something in place by now and it's eating me up inside...

OMFG IT WAS AWESOME!

But the space/time continuum needs to be preserved in my LJ.

Got woken up by some delivery people delivering my tent and then an hour later by the grumpy post woman delivering my Bloodstock ticket. So I'm officially going! I'm just praying Pete's ticket turns up now O_o

Tried putting the tent up in my room but it was too small, then tried it in the front room only it came with 0 instructions and is far from a pop up tent... ¬_¬ So I had to google "how to put up a tent" where a lovely American man explained it somewhat. Ran out of time and then received two lots of phone calls.

Power walked up to town to get supplies for the cinema and then met Naz with five minutes to spare. The film's on pass ban and the price has bloody gone up! It's a fiver! WTF?!

The screen was really busy, I think it's the busiest screen I've been in for about four years given I usually see things at 11am and they're usually not kids films ^_^ Even so everyone was well behaved.

The film was just... brilliant. It opened with ACDC - Back in Black which hooked me from the off. RDjr is just... sex in that film but then I've always had a thing for Tony Stark since I first started reading Ultimate Iron Man... I think it's the beard. But omfg the graphics are just /so good/. I was never very wowed by the suit itself in the comics but the film reaaaaaaally does it more than justice.

Was a bit pissed off that I didn't see Samuel L Jackson as Nick Fury... only to come home from the cinema to find out HE'S AFTER THE CREDITS DAMN IT! Also, even the credit music rocks, it's the really cool Black Sabbath song that's in the trailer. I guess I'll see it about 40000 times at work anyway... that and I want to see it again.

Came home and answered a couple of calls. I've been "shortlisted" by the one agency which I was a bit surprised about, returned the phone call of the one that I applied to last night only to have her kind of shout at me... She was going on about how I shouldn't let the agency that short listed me give my CV out etc etc... so yeah she'll be a fun phone interview...

Then I tried to put up my tent in the garden... with my mom... which was just lol. We had to watch the American man who pretty much explained why it looked like a deflated balloon and after that we finally got it sorted!

An example of how my mom is made of win:
**I get inside the tent once it's up to try it out. Mom peeps inside** All you need are some death eaters now!

Got a groundsheet and some cutlery on a key ring from Asda ^_^

Woke up to find that my copy of I Lucifer had arrived along with Hellboy 3-disc special edition. Both for £5. I finally gave in when it came to I Lucifer because Zach had been banging on about it for ages but I just KNOW I'm going to see it in Hay for £1 like I did with Locke Lamora... ¬_¬

Hung around because I'd got up insanely early for my interview and then drove over there using the AA route planner thing. Thankfully I ignored it's estimated time of 15mins (WTF?!) because it took me about half an hour. As a result I was early so I parked a bit further away and read over my stuff until it was time to go in.

Walked in and EVERYONE was female which was a stark constrast to the other one in Birmingham who seemed to be all guys except the woman who interviewed me. Filled in some forms and then talked to her for a bit, she seemed to like me at least.

Lol I had to do a test on word, excel, touch typing and spelling etc. At first I thought about saying there's little point in asking me to do a test in excel given I haven't used it for something like five + years. But I guessed my way through it and got 80%! Apparently I can type 130 words per minute which is good but then I know I can do much faster when I'm not under pressure. The stupid spelling one was hard because it was formatted in a weird way so I couldn't tell if there were no spaces etc...

Anyway it seemed to go well. Came home and ate then emailed Jonathan, who emailed me back saying to phone me because he'd supposedly left a message only I hadn't had it. We talked for a while and we really seem to get on but he said he's unsure as to whether I'd suit the job so he was going to discuss it with someone else. Hmmm.

Phoned the psychometric test woman who said she hadn't had the results yet and that she was on leave until Tuesday at which point she'd emailed me. So either she's lying to me or I haven't as yet failed ^_^

I'll phone the other agency tomorrow because then it'll have been a week.

Work was... work. It was fairly dead considering it's a Wednesday and everything. Cleaning with Gregg was a fun as always and we discussed muffins and how there should be gourmet muffin festivals like the ones they have for wine testing. That and how this is one of the funniest things ever:

Went into uni and did our mini presentation thing in prep for the big one. I was soooooooooooooooooooooo happy when I found out our essay for David's module doesn't have to be in until the 10th of June! YAY! Means one less thing for me to get a stomach ulcer over ^_^

Apparently our presentation was good... which is amazing considering we did it last week, I hadn't read it since then and then Danielle decided not to bother showing up.

Went to the hatch and got my neuro assignment... I GOT 72! I got a first! Woot!

Hung around in the computer lab until Stu showed up. He said that there's nothing seriously wrong with my diss and he said to cut as little out as I could, it's just niggly little things! Hurrah! Also checked out the reprographics place to make sure that I knew what was going on. Turns out it's £1 per item to bind up which isn't bad considering I thought it was going to be £20 or something...

Got some books out of the library and then came home to find I'd got a message from Pete saying he'd bought his bloodstock ticket. Bought mine and then ordered my tent... so I'm officially going to bloodstock... kind of! Imo it'll be official when I get my ticket ^_^

Still no response from the woman about the psychometric test... so either it's good and I didn't break it and she'll be contacting me about the next stage or it's bad and I failed it outright...

After the interview tomorrow I'm going to phone a couple of the people who haven't spoken to me in a bit... and no doubt find out I haven't got anything there... ¬_¬