Stuff

I'm back home for the weekend. Dog-sitting for the parents while they are away at a wedding up North. Holly, our black Labrador, is senile, deaf, incontenant and virtually immobile; she spends 90% of her day sleeping and the rest of it eating and dumping, or following me around and staring into space. Unfortunately she also has a tendancy to fall down the stairs these days, which is worrying. Anyway, so I'm back down here until Monday, all on my lonesom. On the plus side I have peace and quiet to get on with work, which is always a good thing.

I'm missing the Graduate Ball again this year. Didn't go last year because I didn't see the point; I didn't know all that many people in my year who were going so I didn't see the point. And this year I'm not going because I don't graduate until December, which sucks a bit really. I guess it has become something of an unofficial tradition: I didn't go to the Freshers Ball, my first graduateion, so it makes sense that I shouldn't attend my second graduate ball. But I am quite sad to be missing the fun.

I heard back from the Scottish Government EU job - I didn't get called for an interview, which sucked, but I wasn't suprised really. Although I put as much into the application as possible, I have to acknowledge that I wouldn't be their first choice of candidate. It was a long-shot to begin with, but I was still disappointed. Lesson being: don't get your hopes up over a long-shot, because chances are that no matter how much you want it, no matter how much you know you would put into it, it does matter cause you're not in control. I hate not being in control and being aimless. Says a lot about me and my life really!

Have been writing a bit again recently, which is good: I have been trying out a few new genres - trying to mix genres more than I have before. I have realised just how much I limit myself in terms of style when there are so many options open to me! Still fairly enamoured of short-story writing. I have a feeling that this is more to with my lack of patience, which is something I need to work on - is it wrong just to want to get into the heart of the story without too much characterisation and scene-setting?