Stuff
All this going out with real people is seriously interfering with my internet social life!
Had my hair done on Saturday, and I now have the ‘negative badger’ look. Or maybe ‘negative Cruela de Ville’. It’s platinum blonde all over, apart from a flash of black right at the front. And it’s not so spiky, it’s a bit longer. I love it.
However, not a single person has said anything about it in my new department. I am thinking working with a bunch of accountants may turn out to be slightly dull.
Started new job on Monday. It seems to be going okay so far - I have loads to read, and also need to be pulling data from sources I have not used before, using tools I’ve never seen, so it’s a lot of learning to be done. And I really hate not knowing what I am talking about - but then, moving areas after 10 years this is going to happen. It has been fun so far.
New minion needs to smarten up though - I took him homebaked cookies on the first day, and he said he didn’t like them, they were too sweet!
Still going to aerobics and belly dancing. I didn’t go on Monday though - too tired from first day at work, combined with period pain from hell. So last night we went to a class at a different leisure centre.
God, it was awful. The instructor could not have made a more complicated routine if she had spent 5 years devising it. And it is entirely possible that is what she has done. I got the impression that a lot of the people in the class have been going for years, so it is possible she has evolved it over time. But for someone new to the class it was a nightmare - I spent most of the hour walking around the room with a glazed expression on my face, banging into my friend L who was equally as confused but often in the opposite direction to me, so when I was stepping left, waving my arms, she was stepping right, lifting her legs.
We won’t be going there again.
Tonight was aerobics and belly dancing. It was the first time L came to that aerobics class, and she said it was much more enjoyable than last night. She got lost occasionally in the routine, but it was easy to pick up again.
I am exhausted.
Not helped by another 2 hour conversation with LELI. I have hardly spoken to him for days, since he has been busy studying, and now we work on different floors, in different departments.
I still don’t want him to go. I can’t keep telling him so though, so I have to smile through gritted teeth, and wish him luck with his job applications. Sigh.