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Stuart — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:00:40 +0000

So, yay, summer. It’s only been rainy about 50% of the time, which is a significant improvement over last summer. I’ve just been hanging around in Cambridge – I failed to find work in any of the bars/pubs I looked at, and ended up signing up with a couple of temping agencies. Consequently, I’ve been spending long hours the last few weeks slaving away as a kitchen porter at the Hilton Doubletree hotel (behind Peterhouse), with a random day last Sunday at Bar Hill Tesco. I’ve decided that I don’t like temping much at all, which is fine as I don’t have to do it any more now. The feeling of turning up somewhere new, not knowing what I’m required to do (and there being nobody else that really does either), and just knowing it’s not worth spending too long figuring it out because I’m only there for 8 hours and then never back again… it’s weird. Quite aside from that, being a KP is mind-numbingly dull, dirty work for crap pay. Bah.

But I did my last shift at the Doubletree yesterday – home today to pack, and then off on a bit of a holiday to see Georgie’s parents, my parents, celebrate some birthdays, and then a wedding in Germany! When I get back I have a week to kill, then start at the ADC, which should keep me busy for a while

I should probably mention for continuity’s sake that yes, I got my II.1 degree (and even scraped a first in my research project, which matters to me a lot more than the written papers) and had a fantastic May Week et cetera. It just seems so long ago… since my PDA broke I’ve been using this crazy old-fashioned method of calendar management, which I think people used to call a ‘pocket diary’. It only started in July so I really can’t tell you much of what happened before that! I will probably get a decent smartphone (and a new laptop) once I’m settled at the Theatre.

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