I have been around, I've just been struggling to keep up with everything.

The summer heat is making it so hard to think straight and the building work on our house isn't helping. I got home from work today feeling part baked from the heat to discover that someone had left a load of plaster on my bed. So I had to drag out the vaccum, get it upstairs and clean my bed so that I can sleep in it tonight with only the insects and heat to bother me rather than sharp little bits of chemicals.

Yeah. I'm not in a good mood. I'm just so tired plus my job search has stalled again. Mainly because I'm heading on holiday come the end of this month (THANK YOU! OH HIGHER SPIRITS OF HEAVEN, EARTH AND MERCY! THANK YOU!!!) and this means that going to any interviews would be a problem. I'm also prepairing for the inevitable argument I will have with work about which days I booked off and why its a big deal that they have me down as working when I will be out of the country. Out of all the holiday times I've taken, I think they've only ever got it right ONCE.

The final reason for my lack of progress on getting out of this job is because my course work needed to be handed in. Which I've done. I have completed a fully opperational website and now I await with fingers crossed that its enough to pass my course.

Work is just depressing. Everyone I like is leaving/dying/being a complete cow's rear end. One guy took my stuff and locked it in a draw last month and then told me he hadn't seen it. This was AFTER I had pleaded with him to keep an eye on it because I couldn't! He only had to put up with it for 30 minutes and when I came back close to tears because I thought I'd lost the note pad with 2 years worth of work in it he gave them back to me and laughed because it was a funny joke!

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*Please skip the following. Contains bad lanuage.*

SCREW YOU, YOU HALF BRAINED, SELFISH GIT! GROW UP!! YOU ARE NO LONGER AT SCHOOL YOU PIECE OF RAT EXCRIMENT!

*End of poor lanuage.*

The uniform isn't helping my mood either. We're in the middle of a heat wave and we're still told to wear our thick wool skirts and black tights. This is in hot rooms with LOTS of people coming through and no windows.

I think I'm going to go nuts. Roll on holiday. Get me out of here. Take me to the sea where I can sleep, eat and get cool! I want to wear my own clothes again! I want to be ME! Not some doll put on for public display where even the visitors laugh at you for the damn uniform.

There's just been so much good news on at the moment with Michael Jackson dying amoung other things. Heat waves, recesson, its just a barrel of laughs isn't it?

On to more cheerful stuff.

As I said, I've hopefully passed my course, my brother is home, my cosplay for Aya is almost complete and I'm happy to see the warm weather. It's been two years since we had a half way decent summer and this is looking like a good one. Plus, it gives me the chance to feel smug at all those who complained for all that time that we had no decent sunshine here. Bet anyone?

Plus, I've had a really good time with my art lately and I finally managed to get some stuff done in my art program. So expect photos, drawings, stories and other stuff from me before I head off to another country for some peace.

Have a lovely summer one and all and I'll be around. This year I hope to have the Ayacon snaps up on time for once!

Enjoy!