I’m watching an old episode of Time Team and it’s very apt as I’m going up Leckhampton Hill tomorrow to do some geo-physics. I’m really looking forward to it too. There is an Iron Age Hill Fort up there and Maisie and myself could find something new! You never know, we could be ground breaking 
The bit that Maisie doesn’t like is that we’re walking there and it’s almost 6 miles away. We’re going to start out early though and take it slowly, I want to take a load of photos on the way as well as when we get there. So, watch this space! Will I find anything??
Really looking forward to tomorrow
August 28, 2008 at 3:42 pm (fun, interest, learning)
Here hare here…
October 11, 2007 at 7:14 pm (jobs, learning, life, work)
Hello!
I am still excessively busy at the moment. Still working six days a week, but there is a week off on the horizon. When my boss said he wanted me to know everything he really did mean it. I am now responsible for the wages, ordering, writing up the blue (addicts) scripts and training the locum pharmacists how to use our computer system! No extra pennies for this yet, I am sensing an increase in respect coming from him though which I like.
I am still studying, had my first tutorial on Tuesday. Generally the people were ‘normal’ but there was the one very pompous man which I suppose is to be expected seeing as we were discussing ‘the definition of art’. I’ll get him back when we get to The French Revolution!! It’s very nice having my sister doing the course too as we have had our own little study sessions and I think we are both getting more out if it because of this.
Wedding-wise I have decided that Maisie will give me away, we were practising how we would walk down the aisle on the way to school this morning. I have also chosen the dress I want to wear. I have to say that it is black but it also has turquoise in it so it will match my hair. Amazingly I have found it on ebay and they will make to measure for only £185! Still haven’t set the date yet though haha!
I have just come out of the bath and feel very relaxed and cosy listening to New Model Army, I will possibly study for a while or I may just veg. For the moment I am looking forward to England beating France in the rugby on Saturday
Books, TV, Fillum and Music.
September 25, 2007 at 1:01 pm (Drugs, Music, fillums, interest, learning, life, relationships)
I am excited to say that I have just purchased Jeremy Clarkson’s ‘The World According To Clarkson’ in a Penguin Classic cover, it’s an odd thing to see. I shan’t be reading it (again) for a while as I have masses of reading to do in a very short time, my first OU assignment is due on the 5th October and I haven’t read anywhere near enough!
Also I have just watched ‘Stuart: A Life Backwards’ and I loved it. We had a locum pharmacist in at work the other day and she questioned why our addicts became addicts, why they put themselves in such a dismal position and live in such depravity. I said that a lot of them were in an even worse place beforehand and this program showed this brilliantly. For some it’s almost as if heroin addiction is part of the healing process as the addict will be more likely to get the sort of help they need, whereas someone who is just ‘bonkers’ can easily slip through the net. I wish I could ask our addicts why they started but I can’t, I can only find out if they offer this information to me. When they do it’s eye opening.
A couple of days ago I watched ‘Reign Over Me’ with Adam Sandler taking the lead. He was a dentist with a beautiful family and everything to live for. Then 9/11 happens and his wife, three daughters and dog are on one of the planes that crashes into the Twin Towers. He gives up dentistry and becomes a drummer in a band who re-models his kitchen every few months. People who don’t really know him think he’s crazy, but it is just his way of handling the grief he feels for losing his whole family in such a terrible way. Don Cheadle plays the ’straight’ man as Sandlers ex college room mate who helps him let his feelings out. I loved this film because it makes you understand that people feel in different ways and hurt in different ways too. It was also nice to see the male emotions coming out.
Watching this film made me want to listen to Quadrophenia again (as the final track ‘Reign o’ Me’ was the song on the end credits) and Pete Townsend really had it sussed then. He’ll always be a very bizarre man, but he got teenage angst spot on with this album. Classic.
Open University
September 5, 2007 at 7:49 am (interest, learning, life)
Well my first set of materials came yesterday. A Certificate In The Humanities is what I shall be studying and I have to say that it looks lots of fun. But, stupidly I decided to look a the assignment booklet, why do I always do that?? You look at assignments for something you haven’t learnt yet and think, ‘Jesus, I’ll never be able to do that!’ but by the time you get there it’s fine. I am worried that I might not have enough time to do it though as I am still working 6 days a week for the foreseeable future. Meh! I’ll just have to take my books into work with me, my boss should be glad that he has such cultured staff hehe.
