Catherine’s Blog

58/365 Sleepy

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Well, the job at LRC is going quite well, up until Friday I had no log ins for the computing system so that was made of fail. To be honest I was surprised it has taken so long but I have very little experience of large corporate environments. On Friday I was let loose on the unsuspecting customer base and answered phones. Very much the same as renewing books over the phone, take the details and hit the right buttons. I think I did okay, there are a lot of things to remember, although I did huge amounts of data entry last week, I have not really had a chance to explore all the options on a couple of the systems as I can not log into them. I hope that will change this morning.
Due to work, photos have lacked a certain amount of inspiration, I have been very tired when I get home. I am yet to work out how to take photos in the LRC without giving away where I work because the brand is displayed prominently. I have collected the DSLR, took some photos, cannibalised it for removable parts and packed in the box. I have taken some photos of Bato, the older kitten I shared with at Toby’s place. He is a delightful thing and loves to chase paper and purrs very loudly.

Friday night was very thrilling, I packed a bit and the decided transport two bottles of Gin and tonic was a little overboard. So I drank the part empty bottle, finished the tonic and then went onto mixing it with coke zero. Not as revolting as it sounds, rather like odd Dr Pepper. I spent an entire 5 hours chatting with Rikard, it was great fun, we exchanged youtube clips and other links. It was a fun night and was lovely catch up after his trip to Sweden. We are going to have re-evaluate our catch up schedule with my having to be up at 6am and not making much sense at that hour of the morning.
Saturday I managed to pack all my goods into the car and head out to the new place I am living.
I am staying with Aliz and Callum in deepest darkest Werribee. They have a large house out there and have offered me the use of their two spare rooms. I had a lot of fun putting brand new linen on the bed. I was in heaven. I bought myself a cotton quilt, after sleeping under polyester ones in the UK i found the movement of feathers irritating. I suspect the cotton one will be too light for winter but at the moment it is perfect and smells wonderful. I am grateful for Aliz and Callum putting up with me, it is going to make life that little bit easier and gives me somewhere to live whilst looking for a flat of my own.

On Saturday I looked at the unit in Strathmore I tried to look at on Wednesday. The real estate agents were made of fail and had no key and a lot of standing around happened. The unit was run down but not squalid, there is a water leak that worries me but other than that it was fine. It has a fair amount of traffic noise as backs onto Pascoe Vale Road but the bedrooms are away from the noise and considering I generally play music or put the TV on this should not be too much of a problem. There were a lot of people looking, singles, families and share houses. There was one couple and a companion looking which would have been very crowded. For me it is the perfect size, not huge amounts of storage but two bed rooms and pleasant set of units it is in. Will see how that goes later in the week.

Sunday I went into town with Rachelle attended the Sydney Road Street Party. Lots of stalls and people. A pair of excellently decked out stilt walkers. One as a Scots man, resplendent in kilt and hat, walking on well made leg extensions, the extra bend in his leg not being noticeable with his kilt. The other costume was an excellent mascot costume, a dog that walked on all fours with the aid of stilts. Very nicely designed and very anatomically correct with bum hole, balls and willy that the operator could shoot ‘pee’ terribly accurately with. Spraying the crowd to the merriment of the people. I was very impressed with both outfits but the dog from a design point was a wonderful shape but I have no idea how hard it would be to walk in but I suspect the word difficult comes to mind.


All in all it has been all a great deal less stressful this week in many ways. Work, I think will become more interesting, I understand the need for data entry but it is really not for me. Tonight I am attempting to go swimming, this could be either fun or embarrassing as I have put on weight and may not fit into my bathers, oh dear. I am trying to get a handle on the eating, now my head seems a little less crowded I should be better at stopping the craziness of food being the all powerful source.

Ohhh, another achievement is I have hit 60 days of self portraits, I have missed one day, I am rather pleased with that.
Here is day sixty, I went swimming.