Hi stranger

Yes, it's been a while. Yes, I keep starting posts in this manner. Yes, I'm sorry.

I need to keep this blog going really. It gives me time, in between all the other crazy things I've got going on right now, to sit back and reflect. So let's reflect. What's changed since the last post?

I have a full time job! I am now an assistant librarian at an FE college. I will have been there for two months now, and I really, really enjoy the job. Now that's not to say I come home every night leaping for joy - some parts of the job can be tough. But I will do a separate post on the trials and tribulations of FE employment at a later date, there's way too much to squeeze in here.

I have no permanent home! So the new job was closer to my parents place than my Manchester flat, so for the time being I've moved back to live with them whilst me and JJ attempt to find a house that is commutable for us both. Watch this space for developments on that front.

I got an extension for my dissertation! Because of my shiny new job and the severe lack of time this now gives me to work on my project, they extended my deadline until Christmas. I am very grateful for this and it has basically saved my degree 'cause there was no way in hell that that dissertation would have been finished in time for September otherwise.

Progress has actually been made on the dissertation! I am about half way through, actually understand what it is I'm supposed to be doing, and am fairly on track. Essentially I might actually scrape a pass, and I am feeling marginally more optimistic about the whole situation. Cross all of your fingers and toes that I actually pull this off, as the whole process has been more draining and stress inducing than anything I've ever done in my life before. Ever.

So that's that. The whole last couple of months squeezed into some short points. Perhaps I'll blog again soon as I want to keep track of things I'm doing in my new job, as I love looking back on the posts I did when I was at the school library. Then again, perhaps I'll disappear again until Christmas, who knows.

If you're reading this, thanks.

Over and out.