Up-date

Here comes Christmas again. On the one hand I'm looking forward to spending time at home with the whole family together and go walking, and to a certain extent I'm looking forward to the inevitable political debate after Christmas dinner (in a fairly limited way - Uncle Peter always gets a bit scarely emphatic!) But on the other hand I'm not looking forward to the bickering, Gran getting morbid when she's had a couple of drinks, and the over-preperation. I guess it's a matter of taking the rough with the smooth! Of course I am looking forward to doing the decorating and wrapping pressies and stuff, but I've three shifts to do before then and it's going to be extreemly quiet - virtually a waste of time, but it's money and I can't turn that down atm.
Speaking of money and jobs I'm still on the job hunt: I've had a couple of interviews since August but nothing has panned out yet. I'm not utterly down-hearted or anything, but it's increasinly difficult to maintain a positive attitude! It's not all doom and gloom: I asked for feedback on an unsucessful application for a research position with the SLD and the guy got back in touch very quickly. I wasn't asked in for an interview but I was next on the list had anyone dropped out, and the only reason I wasn't asked was because the other candidates had governmental experiance as temps. So that leads me to say that I've applied to a temping agency, and I'm just awaiting my disclosure form being returned before I can be put to work at long blooming last! And I spent today looking for jobs, and have about 11 to apply for over the next few weeks. It'll keep me busy anyway!
MSc graduation came and went: it was a nice, eventful day rounded off by a meal at La Gerrique, as last year.
The next few days should at least be eventful: tomorrow I'm back up in Edinburgh for drinks and a birthday party (and possibly a cocktail party there-after!), then on Saturday I've work and will hopefully see Doug when he gets in, Sunday is more work followed by a meal and drinks with whoever's around, Monday will be about the same, then home on Tuesday. And hopefully I'll manage to spend a bit of time with my boyfriend too :P
Right, I need to make a list of stuff I need to do over the next couple of days! I'll try and write more soon...