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It's been a fairly stressful couple of weeks because of various reasons and to be quite honest I'm not particularly in the mood to describe them. I use this journal, still, to remember what I did in the past, but I don't really want to remember some of the general bleak busy-ness at work. So, in conclusion, I won't.

One thing I will remember is that I actually managed to get my Christmas shopping done. Yay! Oxford Circus is generally horrific but I had an amble down to Selfridges and got nearly everything I needed do, although I did end up taking a second trip to get some last bits on the Tuesday. A productive couple of days off. I also binge-watched Peaky Blinders, a show which from experience of the first season really suits it. I'm just watching the last episode now. It's a magnificant series and I think it doesn't get quite the claim it deserves because it's about Birmingham and poor people. Hmm. Seriously, any scene between Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy is just an acting masterclass. Two inhumanly beautiful people turn themselves into scary hardened criminals and you really believe it. Plus, the soundtrack!

(Although I did nearly weep when I got back to work on Wednesday and saw my to do list. We've got authorisation from the boss to get an admin temp in to try and regain all of our sanity before Christmas, and I'm angling to be the nominal supervisor so I can get some more experience on that under my belt. So that's helpful.)

We are now hurtling up towards the end of 2014 and I'm not particularly sorry to see it go. I'm seeing it out with a bang, though. In a couple of hours I'm going to get in the car and trundle up to Cambridge to see loneraven and tau_sigma. I have a bottle of Lidl prosecco to take with me, to celebrate our mutual fabulousness. It'll be fun! And during next week I need to sort out the Christmas tree and have the work Christmas party before heading Oop North for early Christmas with my family. So all of these things are good things.

(no subject)

It's been a fairly stressful couple of weeks because of various reasons and to be quite honest I'm not particularly in the mood to describe them. I use this journal, still, to remember what I did in the past, but I don't really want to remember some of the general bleak busy-ness at work. So, in conclusion, I won't.

One thing I will remember is that I actually managed to get my Christmas shopping done. Yay! Oxford Circus is generally horrific but I had an amble down to Selfridges and got nearly everything I needed do, although I did end up taking a second trip to get some last bits on the Tuesday. A productive couple of days off. I also binge-watched Peaky Blinders, a show which from experience of the first season really suits it. I'm just watching the last episode now. It's a magnificant series and I think it doesn't get quite the claim it deserves because it's about Birmingham and poor people. Hmm. Seriously, any scene between Cillian Murphy and Tom Hardy is just an acting masterclass. Two inhumanly beautiful people turn themselves into scary hardened criminals and you really believe it. Plus, the soundtrack!

(Although I did nearly weep when I got back to work on Wednesday and saw my to do list. We've got authorisation from the boss to get an admin temp in to try and regain all of our sanity before Christmas, and I'm angling to be the nominal supervisor so I can get some more experience on that under my belt. So that's helpful.)

We are now hurtling up towards the end of 2014 and I'm not particularly sorry to see it go. I'm seeing it out with a bang, though. In a couple of hours I'm going to get in the car and trundle up to Cambridge to see loneraven and tau_sigma. I have a bottle of Lidl prosecco to take with me, to celebrate our mutual fabulousness. It'll be fun! And during next week I need to sort out the Christmas tree and have the work Christmas party before heading Oop North for early Christmas with my family. So all of these things are good things.