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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1815 on: September 25, 2011, 04:32:47 PM »
IA: It's Sunday afternoon and instead of being at the cinema with R, I am stuck at home while my landlord does a few repairs.

UP: My flat is very very clean! :)
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1816 on: September 25, 2011, 04:59:05 PM »
UP: The sun is out.
IA: It's practically November and the heat and humidity won't go away. I'm in Fall mode, so make it Fall!
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1817 on: September 26, 2011, 11:25:04 AM »
UP: Not that unexpected, but I had a fantastic mini-hen weekend in Northumberland with my 2 lovely friends who live in York. We stayed at a hotel in Newcastle, swam in the pool, watched North & South (mm, Richard Armitage) and Pride and Prejudice (mm, Colin Firth), drank lots of wine, ate at Buca di Beppo, and had a lovely day at Alnwick Castle and gardens in the Sunday sunshine.

IA: It was a long train journey back (via Carlisle for some reason) and I'm still really tired. Also the boy had a decent stag do, but a lot people who I would have expected to know better didn't even bother to buy him a single drink, and the guy who is supposed to be his best man (who flaked out in planning the thing and DF had to transfer the planning to someone else on short notice) had to be prodded into buying him something, and in fact only bought him 2 drinks the whole weekend! Very annoyed and disappointed in people :(
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1818 on: September 27, 2011, 11:11:14 PM »
UP: Really nice meal out with my co-workers

IA: Drunk on a school night is a terrible idea  :-\\\\
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1819 on: September 28, 2011, 12:16:53 PM »
UP: Another beautifully sunny and warm day outside.

IA: Being stuck indoors for work  :(
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1820 on: October 03, 2011, 11:46:21 AM »
A pair of trousers I put on this morning are falling off me
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1821 on: October 03, 2011, 09:32:40 PM »
Quote from: phatbeetle on October 03, 2011, 11:46:21 AM
A pair of trousers I put on this morning are falling off me
AWESOME thats an UP and an IA for sure  ;D

IA: I think I want a ciggie
UP: Haven t touched one and pretty happy about that (day 3 almost over)
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1822 on: October 05, 2011, 03:52:54 PM »
IA: We had a scheduled power cut today because they had to do some kind of work on lines or whatever.  I totally forgot about it, and it was really annoying at first.  I had a day of bread and cookie baking planned, not to mention job searching.  :-\\\\

UP: I managed to get the bathrooms all spic and span and got A LOT of reading done (it was off for 6 hours). We also have a gas hob, and fortunately matches as well, so I wasn't completely without my cups of tea either!  :)
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1823 on: October 05, 2011, 05:15:01 PM »
UP: Just got back from an interview that went pretty well, I think.

IA: I'm not hugely fond of the technology they're using, but otherwise the team/environment seems good.

UP: Remembered to get the interviewer's name, and wrote him a thank-you note (and got it in the mail - the part I always slack on!)

IA: Not sure when I'll hear back (think soon, though).

And, for my current job....
UP: Colleague said I'd be offered an extension and/or raise and/or bonus. Nice of them to finally realise how vital I am to the project!

IA: They've screwed this whole thing up so much that, unless I get all of the above and they're significant, there's no way I'd consider accepting. Sucks for them!
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1824 on: October 07, 2011, 07:34:57 PM »
Non-job related this time.

UP: Had a nice, unplanned chat with my grandmother.

IA: It was extra-extra short (and I'd only planned on it being 5min or so)...she didn't regale me with any stories illustrating how boring her life is (which she usually does), and I'm not sure if that's because she couldn't remember any. :(
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1825 on: October 09, 2011, 12:58:52 PM »
IA:  Having to turn back on my walk through the Dales on Friday due to a herd of cows I couldn't get around (they were coming towards me and I was scared!).

UP:  Chatting with a nice man at the bus stop in beautiful Kettlewell, who was a much more experienced walker than me, but completely understood my fears about walking alone, coming across cows, etc.  He was maybe my age or a bit older and though he didn't look at all like Hugh Grant, I kept picturing Hugh Grant playing him in a film.  Strange, I know, but it was all so picturesque and charming that I just couldn't help myself!  [smiley=blush.gif]
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1826 on: October 10, 2011, 11:07:01 AM »
IA: Discovered this morning that, despite being told that the project "couldn't afford" to continue paying me (which is why I'm leaving this week), they're interviewing candidates to replace me tomorrow. So, in fact, they can't afford to pay me, they can afford to pay someone else. So much for that "you'll have a stable/secure job here for 2-3 years!" thing I was promised as little as a month before the "sorry, we have no money" thing.

UP: This is my last week! Thank goodness. BF has to remind me not to kill anyone every day, and it's becoming less and less of a joke these days.

UP: At least that saves me the hassle of turning down whatever supposed extension they were going to give me ("just a few days", to add further insult to injury). If they hire a new (probably male) me, then they don't need me any longer. Yay!
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1827 on: October 14, 2011, 04:09:07 PM »
UP: Modified a corn muffin recipe to make it gluten free and added some green chili for flavour. They came out delicious! :D

IA: I had ZERO will power and ate way too many.  :-X
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1828 on: October 15, 2011, 07:44:54 AM »
UP:  My manager's daughter had her baby last night (two weeks early!).

IA:  I now have to work today (and I'm guessing Monday as well).
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Re: Part IA, Part UP
« Reply #1829 on: October 17, 2011, 01:15:48 AM »
UP: The second season of 'The Walking Dead' starts tonight.

IA: We only saw the first episode and the finale of the first season, so there are a lot of holes!
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