First Aid course

Ah, I get a lie-in for the rest of the week, as I'm on a First Aid course, and it's local!

So no Crying Girl, no Sniffing Lady, and no 3 hours commuting!

It's worth doing the course just for that!!!

Sleeping and commuting

After my great night's sleep Saturday, I ended up with a rubbish night's sleep on Sunday... to the point where I was having trouble dragging myself out of bed... as soon as I got onto the train I fell asleep, only to be woken at the very next station by two people having an argument about "pushing in," as they got onto the train - wtf? There were only 3 people in our carriage, so it wasn't like they weren't going to get a seat!!! Still, fell straight back to sleep again, and didn't wake up til Fenchurch Street. Luckily I hadn't dribbled....

I spent the whole day fighting to keep my eyes open, and even resorted to drinking Coke Light, which is all I could get in the local shops, and it tastes foul.... reminds me a bit of India, as you couldn't get Diet Coke there either! The caffeine didn't do the trick though, so it wasn't a particularly productive day!

The journey home was even worse, as it was hot, and the air conditioning wasn't on... about 5 minutes into the journey, I reckon EVERYONE was asleep. I only woke up when my phone rang, and I was so pathetically zombified I could barely hold a conversation (sorry Alan).

Then when I actually got into bed that night, I couldn't sleep for aaaaages! How annoying, and typical, is that!?!?!

Today the air conditioning was on, but my sleep was interrupted by foreign crying girl (I wish I knew what language she was speaking) who was having her monthly argument on her mobile at the top of her voice! Actually, I feel a bit bad about saying it's a "monthly" argument - I wasn't referring to her hormones, I just meant that she has an argument with someone at least once every month!!! If you know what I mean... er, maybe I'll just shut my hypocritical trap up now!

Size 0 tortoises

Good news, my tortoises do not have anorexia, or any other eating disorder. www.thetortoiseshop.com have told me to take no notice of the Jackson Ratio - as long as my babies are eating, there's nothing to worry about, so one big PHEWWWWWWW! Except I've now got about £40 worth of plants, which I panic-bought yesterday!!!! But ahhhh, Lola's just woken up and come over to say hello - how can I begrudge her anything?!?!?

It was soooooo hard dragging my fat arse into work today.... that walk from Fenchurch Street is a killer when you haven't got off your butt for 4 days! I'm going to have to get the Radox Muscle Soak out later... Btw, commuting is a shitter when it's holidays - there's always ten times more schoolkids on the trains during the holidays - how does that work?

Our air conditioning in the new office has been pretty grim since we moved there, but we arrived today to find it wasn't working at all! We're constantly having rows with the premises staff about the windows, which are meant to be locked so the air con works, and no-one falls out. We figured that if the air con wasn't working anyway, then what did it matter if the windows were opened? Needless to say, we lost the argument on the whole Health & Safety issue - incidentally, surely Health & Safety comes into the equation when our offices are measuring 34degrees Celsius (sorry, I don't really do Farenheit)? It was cooler when I was working in offices in India - oh, except when there were power cuts, of course!!!

I might complain, on the grounds that its in violation of my human rights!!!

Commuting

I know I'm going to sound REALLY old now, but why are people so inconsiderate when they're on a train??? Why can't they see that the majority of their fellow passengers are asleep, and don't want to be woken by their uninteresting phone conversations?

And it was bad enough having to listen to the irritating noise coming out of people's headphones, but what is this with the mobile phones blaring music out on speakers?

God, I can't wait til they invent Teleporting!