A Week in the World of Moi
Monday
Decided it was about time I did some proper revision, so having got a fail on the practice questions I sat down for all of half an hour and took some notes from the course text. This seemed like the right thing to do but when you are trying to work at the same time it isn't easy. Oh and the whole thing is really quite dull.
Tuesday
left for Romford at lunch time, train from Norwich broke down whilst still at the station. That is the second time within a month that has happened to me. Spent half an hour taking more notes before giving into the urge to switched my iPod on. At Colchester this guy got on the now crowded train that looked familiar but I wasn't entirely sure; I'm fairly certain he must have thought I was psychotic as I kept glancing at him. When the train pulled into Shenfield I got up to leave and he followed, this pretty much added weight to my conviction that he must be someone I work with. So like the reprobate I am I turned to the guy and said, "Do you work for BT?" Thankfully he said yes, otherwise I'm not sure what I would have said. Turns out he had kinda recognised me too but hadn't been sure enough to say anything. So for the train between Shenfield and Romford I had a little company.
Picked up some sweets for the kids on the way to the house; they were pretty pleased to see me. It's heart warming in a saccharin sweet kind of way probably but I always think how I would love to swap everything I own to have two kids as loving as these, with all their faults they are still great. The kids went dance class then Robert played on his laptop while Lauren and I played a few games. Bathtime was over before they had even sat down in the tub!
I tucked Lauren in and sat with her until she fell alseep, it was sad really it all just reminded me of how much time has passed. It feels like only a few months ago that I was tucking Robert in and telling him a story whilst he had his bottle of milk. Now he is 10 and has a sister older than he was at that time.
Surprise surprise, by the time I went to bed I still had done no more revision despite having had ample opportunity. At this point I was aware I was going to fail but at least I had no illusions.
Wednesady
Woke up having had a werid dream that I failed to remember for very long, said goodbye to the kids, thanked Lesley for letting me stay and watched the news about all the flooding for a while. Makes yo greatful for what you have when you see vans upto their rooves in water, people chest deep wading down the road.
I arrived at the test centre an hour early somehow but they didn't seem to mind. They registered me, explained how it all worked then set me up on one of their desktops for the exam. 74 questions with a 75 minute time limit, the pass mark 82.5%. I clicked the start button read the first question which was quite simple and carried on fro there. I finished the exam and realised I had just over an hour left. It occurred to me then that I couldn't go back over the questions I had answered and that they probably hadn't been as easy as I previously thought. Too late now. The nex screen came up.... Congratulations! My exact thought was "hang on? what the..?" I have absolute faith in my abilities obviously!
I collected my certificate and then managed to catch the 11:00am train for Norwich. Seeing as I was supposed to start the exam at 11:00am I was having a pretty good day. I arrived in norwich at 1:00pm, went into town bought a new dress, some Thornton's chocolates for Tom, dropped into the recruitment agency with my passport then caught a bus out to Allied.
Thursday
back to work, was quite busy really. I awoke in the morning to a strange dream. Tom and had been living in a haunted house the ghost was a dark haired girl who wasn't angry at Tom but would haunt me. She got more and more agressive and one day she tried to kill me but Tom saved me and we had to move away. We got lost when we left in our big black 4x4, we were driving through fields and the road would twist and turn back on itself. Eventually we found somewhere to stop. Some of my colleagues were there, the weather was lovely and people were just milling about. I over heard a conversation where one of the field specialists had just been offered a job at the place i had been interviewed and I started ot get annoyed that they hadn't even told me they didn't want me, then this other guy was saying that he had applied there too but no one had come back to him so we rang them but then I woke up.
yeah I know, I am strange, but what is normal these days?
Friday
Conference call in the morning. Boring stuff about hosting email services. How great is my job!? for lunch we went into town, paid the last installment off of our honeymoon (absolutely fantastic moment) then picked up some food shopping before we are forced to live off takeaway. hard life. Spent the afternoon chasing for IP addresses for a client, drawing them up an amended contract and then resissuing the order. At least it was done before the weekend. Spent the evening in front of the TV (to make a change) Tom did dinner though and really made an effort to look after me. He can be really sweet when he wants to be.
Don't laugh too much but I got a brain age of 20 on brain training on our new DS lite. haha not hat I'm pleased or anything. When I first tried it I wa ssomething like 60's so I have come along way but I think it's less brain age and more practice at certain tasks.
One last thought. If you are completely average in every way inc height, weight, eye colour age, IQ etc does it really make you average or are you actually very different? Afterall the average is an area the most individuals mediate around but not conform to exactly.
Decided it was about time I did some proper revision, so having got a fail on the practice questions I sat down for all of half an hour and took some notes from the course text. This seemed like the right thing to do but when you are trying to work at the same time it isn't easy. Oh and the whole thing is really quite dull.
Tuesday
left for Romford at lunch time, train from Norwich broke down whilst still at the station. That is the second time within a month that has happened to me. Spent half an hour taking more notes before giving into the urge to switched my iPod on. At Colchester this guy got on the now crowded train that looked familiar but I wasn't entirely sure; I'm fairly certain he must have thought I was psychotic as I kept glancing at him. When the train pulled into Shenfield I got up to leave and he followed, this pretty much added weight to my conviction that he must be someone I work with. So like the reprobate I am I turned to the guy and said, "Do you work for BT?" Thankfully he said yes, otherwise I'm not sure what I would have said. Turns out he had kinda recognised me too but hadn't been sure enough to say anything. So for the train between Shenfield and Romford I had a little company.
Picked up some sweets for the kids on the way to the house; they were pretty pleased to see me. It's heart warming in a saccharin sweet kind of way probably but I always think how I would love to swap everything I own to have two kids as loving as these, with all their faults they are still great. The kids went dance class then Robert played on his laptop while Lauren and I played a few games. Bathtime was over before they had even sat down in the tub!
I tucked Lauren in and sat with her until she fell alseep, it was sad really it all just reminded me of how much time has passed. It feels like only a few months ago that I was tucking Robert in and telling him a story whilst he had his bottle of milk. Now he is 10 and has a sister older than he was at that time.
Surprise surprise, by the time I went to bed I still had done no more revision despite having had ample opportunity. At this point I was aware I was going to fail but at least I had no illusions.
Wednesady
Woke up having had a werid dream that I failed to remember for very long, said goodbye to the kids, thanked Lesley for letting me stay and watched the news about all the flooding for a while. Makes yo greatful for what you have when you see vans upto their rooves in water, people chest deep wading down the road.
I arrived at the test centre an hour early somehow but they didn't seem to mind. They registered me, explained how it all worked then set me up on one of their desktops for the exam. 74 questions with a 75 minute time limit, the pass mark 82.5%. I clicked the start button read the first question which was quite simple and carried on fro there. I finished the exam and realised I had just over an hour left. It occurred to me then that I couldn't go back over the questions I had answered and that they probably hadn't been as easy as I previously thought. Too late now. The nex screen came up.... Congratulations! My exact thought was "hang on? what the..?" I have absolute faith in my abilities obviously!
I collected my certificate and then managed to catch the 11:00am train for Norwich. Seeing as I was supposed to start the exam at 11:00am I was having a pretty good day. I arrived in norwich at 1:00pm, went into town bought a new dress, some Thornton's chocolates for Tom, dropped into the recruitment agency with my passport then caught a bus out to Allied.
Thursday
back to work, was quite busy really. I awoke in the morning to a strange dream. Tom and had been living in a haunted house the ghost was a dark haired girl who wasn't angry at Tom but would haunt me. She got more and more agressive and one day she tried to kill me but Tom saved me and we had to move away. We got lost when we left in our big black 4x4, we were driving through fields and the road would twist and turn back on itself. Eventually we found somewhere to stop. Some of my colleagues were there, the weather was lovely and people were just milling about. I over heard a conversation where one of the field specialists had just been offered a job at the place i had been interviewed and I started ot get annoyed that they hadn't even told me they didn't want me, then this other guy was saying that he had applied there too but no one had come back to him so we rang them but then I woke up.
yeah I know, I am strange, but what is normal these days?
Friday
Conference call in the morning. Boring stuff about hosting email services. How great is my job!? for lunch we went into town, paid the last installment off of our honeymoon (absolutely fantastic moment) then picked up some food shopping before we are forced to live off takeaway. hard life. Spent the afternoon chasing for IP addresses for a client, drawing them up an amended contract and then resissuing the order. At least it was done before the weekend. Spent the evening in front of the TV (to make a change) Tom did dinner though and really made an effort to look after me. He can be really sweet when he wants to be.
Don't laugh too much but I got a brain age of 20 on brain training on our new DS lite. haha not hat I'm pleased or anything. When I first tried it I wa ssomething like 60's so I have come along way but I think it's less brain age and more practice at certain tasks.
One last thought. If you are completely average in every way inc height, weight, eye colour age, IQ etc does it really make you average or are you actually very different? Afterall the average is an area the most individuals mediate around but not conform to exactly.
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