I went to see Twelfth Night  in the theatre recently - for under 26s the tickets are £5 only!! So I took my sister and it was brilliant. Really enjoyable. I studied this play in year 9 (a scary 7 years ago) and it was like a trip down the old memory. Highly recommended.

Anyhoo there is going to be a huge part at my house tonight - I live in a semi-detached house, on the smallish side. And it's going to be full of people, food and alcohol. I forsee good times ahead.

Sorry for my lack of entries recently - but tomorrow is Christmas EVE!! Having a huge part at might house so reaalllly busy recently.

What are you all doing??

xoxo

First of all I just want to thank marymac so much for her beautiful virtual gift!! I love it so much and I'm sorry I didn't tell you that before. But the good news is that it is snowing where I live so it has been prophetic.

I have been having a really good time recently. I went to see Breakfast at Tiffany's  in the Theatre last week and while my Dad absolutely hated it (it bored him to within an inch of his life), I and my Ma quite enjoyed it. And it's almost Christmas. And while last's lovely, what I am looking forward to is happening in January. Because you know what's back on January 10th?? BEING HUMAN!!!

( Magic means never having to be dazzled by present company )

Ok enough of the Twilight splurging. I don't know why I keep going on and on about it. It's kinda like a cut in your mouth - your tongue just can't stay away!

But today I managed to complete almost all of my Christmas shopping and that deserves a wooohoo. I feel considerable poorer but full of Christmas joy. Being seen as a Scrooge is not cool. (I'm actually looking forward to when it does become cool - since then I can be said to be following trends, not being stingy).

I also spent a really nice night out with my work mates:

And I am not joking. The London Eye has declared in all its wisdom that retail staff do not need to drink water during the Winter months and if we need to we have to have a doctor's note.

I HAVE FOUND MY NEW BATTLE TO FIGHT!

And if I do drink water, what are they going to do? Fire me?? I DARE them to do that. Can you imagine what a field day the world will have with that? 'Girl fired from Eye for drinking water'!

Today was a brilliant day. Thanks to two very lovely people I have never enjoyed work at the Eye as much as I did today. I am really looking forward to going to work tomorrow (even though those two lovely ladies won't be there; day off).

ANd did I mention that the Eye are taking us to Paris for two days? To Disney Land Paris to be exact. For two days. All paid for by SOMEONE ELSE!!!

Live long and prosper!

xoxo

Recently I have been going to quite a few author events (and by quite a few I mean two). And one of them was not only an author but a screen writer and director. His newest movie is in cinemas now and he was in Picadilly last week to promote the new film and I was able to get a tickets and also attend. At the end of the signing, I was able to get an autograph and a photo.

How did all of you fare today?

Live Long and Prosper!

xoxo

Today was a much better day. The other work experience person decided to magnanimously give up his desk for me so that fr today he would be the unwanted floater. Wooohoo I thought. Not so. As soon as the publicity assistents realised that he was without a desk they bent over backwards to find him one. Do you know what they said to me yesterday? 'You need to find yourself a desk'. And off I had to trot, finding myself a desk so I could do free work for them.

It started off so good! I was having such a good time. I was doing all the work set to me quickly and efficiently. And I wasn't wasting time. I don't know what I did to make them dismiss me so quickly. And for this I took 2 weeks off work - I should have only taken off one. That way I would have enjoyed it and been able to write about it on my CV. But I only have one day left and I am going to try very hard not to complain about it any more. I should have acted differently - I don't know how but obviously something needs to change.

But I do have some better news (thankfully). I have read the best book EVER. And I mean that. All of you have to read this book.


I am also going to make my Ma read it, not that it will take much convincing. She wanted to read it first but I managed to sneak it away from her when she wasn't looking.

And tonight brand new QI starts!! Wooohoooo!!


This is a very, very old picture, since now Stephen Fry is half the man that he once was. He is so very thin now. And looking very good! They are talking about Gardens tonight and I am really looking forward to it. That always manages to cheer me up.

Live Long and Prosper!

xoxo

I am sneaking in this entry while 'working'. Today I have been relegated to another department where they happen to have a spare desk. Way to mke the new work experience girl feel unwanted. I actually now cannot wait until all this is over. I am so tired of it all. And I just want to go to sleep.

but someone will come running asking me if it is OK if I do xjhefihrfeiheit. And I say, ever so grasiously yes it is, and most of the time it really is. But if you are going to have a work experience placement at least give her a desk in the right department.

That is not a lot to ask.

And having to stare at the computer all day long has made my eyes turn to crap. i feel old, tired and ugly right now. I don't really want to go home because Ma takes Random House's side. On everything. So when I go home I have to pretend that the day was brilliant (and that's hard work let me tell you). So you guys are the only lot I really get to ofload on.

Thank you. I already feel as if I am going insane in the bad way over here.

xoxo

Today I had no desk and then when I finally got a desk I had no chair. I had to work on my knees

I don't feel all that loving towards them right now.

Hello all!! I have spent the whole week in Random House gaining some valuable work experiece. And because of that I haven't been able to update in ages. Most of the stuff I do is normal admin stuff, which is what I expected to get but every now and again I am given a really interesting task to do. For example I saved our department a whole load of money by getting free subscriptions to the magazines that they used to pay for. That little nugget of talent is defnintely going into my CV.

But do you know what else hap[ened? Children in Need. And do you know what that means? Merlin scetch! And if you haven't seen it here it is:



And a huggeee concert took place in order to raise money and Snow Patrol did a duet with Cheryl Cole. I would never have thought that the two of them would suit each other and the song that they chose, but it really worked!


I am now in love with this song. And of course Athur from Merlin. Next week he's enchanted to woo some blonde bombshell. I CANNOT WAIT!!

Hopefully there will be more nakedness. This week Merlin forced him to go on a diet. It was really funny.

Live Long and Prosper!

xoxo

Today is the first day at Random House fo rme! I wish I was more awake - didn't sleep all that well last night and was up far too early this morning so I'm not really with it right now. But somewhere deep inside the haze of sleep, I am excited!

wooohooo.

It would have to be the ability to teleport from one place to the other. And I base my answer entirely on Deadpool in the Wolverine movie. He is the someone I aspire to be. And hopefully with the way technology is progressing, one day I will achieve my dream.

Not feeling all that well today. But when I saw this, I did cheer up :D



Woohoo!

Live long and prosper!

xoxo

Have a truly brilliant day :D

I had a really great birthday night on Saturday. We went to a Moroccan/Lebenese place in London with belly dancers and everything! And for the first time in my life, I had a martini.


And once I had a martini (and I mean one only) I was more than happy to 'dance' with them. I have no hip action and not much rhythm. But I gave it  go! And then the giving it a go finished and I just posed with them.


But I have to talk about the martini again. It wasn't a dry martini or anything like that, it was a fruit mixture - but that's all I can remember. And frankly after a few sips I didn't really care. It was soooo strong. With one glass of martini I had 7 to 8 glasses of water - the waiter just kept topping it up (my theory is that he wanted me to pee). I felt so sophisticated when I drank it! Look at the picture, don't I look all grown up?


We booked the table for late on Saturday night and I thought that before I go I will be able to get me weekly TV fix. Which equals Strictly and Merlin. Guess what? Virgin Media died. AND I MISSED MERLIN. I missed MERLIN.



I missed THEM. I think me heart broke a little. The plot lines are ridiculous, the special effects laughable, yet it is one of the best shows I have seen in ages. I am in LOVE with Arthur (he is delicious) and I love Gwen and the actress who plays her. In this series they are starting to explore the various love shapes and I am loving it. And as I side note, I am going to go see Twelfth Night  in the theatre in December and Giaus is in it!

WOOOHOOOO

I got my conformation email from Random House! Woohoo. Now I can start to get properly excited about it all. I hope so much that it goes swimmingly. That would be swell. (Haven't used that word for a while).

Anyway I am at work at the moment- reached a bit early so decided to update now rather than later. Hope you are all well and your lives are swimming along swimmingly. That would also be swell. (I am on a roll - now to actually say it).

Live long and Prosper!

xoxo

I didn't post this properly before. For two weeks in November I will be working at Random House! How excellent is that? I am thrilled with that news - when they called me I almost blew a gut. In happiness and joy. And then came the various problems. They called me on Saturday and wanted me for 2 weeks starting the next week. That I couldn't do. But then they offered me the work 2 weeks later. Which I thought I could do.

Yet, getting time out was much harder then I thought it would be. They have cut back on staff (for many reasons - most of them to do with money and because of that there are barely any members of staff around. So getting those 2 weeks off, even with 2 weeks worth of notice means I am very likely going to get a telling off. How wonderful is that?

It is going to make my day. It's not as if I could give them any more notice - I told them as soon as I knew about it.

But I will have to deal with it. And Random House's HR department are extremely slow with sending my the conformatory email/letter. I still haven't got anything and I am starting to panic a little more. What if they have changed the dates? What if something else has gone wrong? How can I tell the Eye that I'm sorry but now I can't do those to weeks, instead I need to do it another 2 weeks? Crap.

But I did find something that cheered me up slightly. If not that, then it calmed me down.



Live Long and Prosper!

xoxo