Actually, I don't know why I wrote the second half of that title.


I'm going on a mission trip to Romania for two weeks to help 4 other Brits and an undisclosed number of Romanians run a pair of holiday camps for a total of 60 children aged 9-10/11-12. I leave tomorrow.

Goodbye 6-month-long British Autumn and hello European Heatwave! (I'm gonna die!)

It was fun because the friend who I'm going with lost his passport less than a week ago and spent...

I have a work experience placement with the local council; it's like a real job, except without the bit where I get handed money (still on pathetic job seekers allowance and therefore still can't afford to move out of my mum's house) but I do get a shiny reference on my CV, and 500 work XP every day - at this rate I'll hit level 6 by Tuesday!
But then I am required to, twice daily, take a ride on a bus (or, as I prefer to call them, a pus-ridden carriage of misery - man, I wish the internet...

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So recently the left hinge of my laptop has been getting loose, and now when I tilt the lid back and forth a red line sometimes appears near the left side of a screen; an entire column of broken pixels. Generally jiggling it back and forth a bit gets rid of it but it's getting to be harder to dispel.

I really should get it looked at, but I don't really want to be without it for any length of time; my friend's computer broke recently and they took it to the same shop I bought/insured...

So, we varnish wood to protect and preserve it...

Why do we varnish coffins?

So the last week or so I've persistently not been settling down to sleep until after 3 AM (including tonight, as chance would have it). It gets to about 1AM and I think 'that's enough, I'll go to bed now' and then I just... don't. I mean procrastinating about winding down and going to bed has sort of been a consistent thing with me for the last few years but not usually so late so persistently.

It means I'm not sleeping nearly enough and getting increasingly exhausted every evening,...

Heard this song for the first time a few days ago and it's been on my head since.



Apparently the guy played at a homeless shelter and was moved to write this the same night.

I don't listen to a lot of mainstream music, but because they play music in the shop where I'm working I've heard a lot of it, and I'm actually starting...

That's right; I got a job!

It's for 4 weeks, working for Dunelm Mill, a British chain store that sells fabrics and furniture and linen and stuff. A new branch of it is opening in my town in a few weeks, so I'll be working over the opening period. If all goes well, I've a chance of being offered full-time employment afterwards (and if not, at least I can finally put something on my CV). Also, by the time the 4 weeks are over, the Christmas season will be starting, and then why train...

Let me tell you about my day.

Ran out of shampoo this morning, so when visiting the supermarket later I made a note to get some. I spent a long time looking at bottles with girly words on them; I don't want my hair to be sumptuous! I don't want it to be silky! I don't want it nourished with natural organic honey and elderflower! I didn't want girly shampoo! I wanted Manp-

Then I realised there are some things you don't shout aloud at the supermarket.

...

"We're legal!"