Stuff

Just a few updates thrown together without a particular topic in mind.

1. I'm now officially the only one left out of a team of 4. The other three have found better jobs outside of IBM. Lucky sods. Wish I could take off like they did but obviously my Visa restricts me collosally. What's worse at the moment is that of course there is a REASON why there were 4 people. Because that's how much work we had. Workload is now increasing but headcount is decreasing, of course. Leaving me to do the job of 4 people. Well, trying as hard as I can but I'm not Superwoman. I'll just do whatever I can do and screw the rest.

2. My upstairs neighbours have had continuous freak outs over the past few weeks. Talking to the management of the complex I was told that a "Noise letter" will be sent to them. Didn't make any difference. Then they said I had to call the front gate when it happens so that they have it "official". So last night, when the goddamn asshole woke me up again shortly before midnight, I called the front gate. The answer was "I'll see what I can do". Stupid idiot. I don't want him to SEE what he can do. I want him to DO something. Well, of course nothing happened, nobody came. But I sent another letter to the management - it should be very interesting to see how this develops. I can't stand this apartment anymore, I don't like coming home much lately and I wish I could just move. And all that because of a stupid phsycho and his dumb girlfriend.

3. Have given up on finishin the uni project this year. Yeah, I know, stop shouting at me! It's stupid but there's just no way I can get it done by the end of October so I might as well defer it to next year again. Which is what I have done. I shall start working on it much earlier though and will hopefully manage to complete it by then.

4. I have joined Weight Watchers at Work last week. It's quite a good thing because I'm not only paying this time but I'm also going to the meetings since they're people from the company, which is much nicer than perfect strangers. So fingers crossed I will have lost some weight by the end of December, which is when the 12 week session ends. I'm disgusted at the weight I have been piling on and it needs to COME OFF. If anything, wish for me to stick to this and lose the FLAB!!!

5. I'm currently thinking about starting with NaNoWriMo again... remember last year? Writing 50,000 words in 30 days? Well, I did it then and I guess I could do it again. Though to be fair, I never finished last year's novel (and I really should, seeing as I've got pretty much the whole story plotted out in my head) and also, I don't exactly have a good idea for a new novel. I've got some shadowy ideas but they're not as clear as the one I had last year. So I will think some more about it and decide whether it's worth starting in the first place or whether I should just simply continue last year's!

So anyway... that's that. Not much more to tell apart from the fact that I'll be performing with Nashua Choir on Saturday night for the first time. I should add that we're not really "performing" as such. The Nashua Symphony Orchestra is performing Gustav Holst's "Planets" and Neptune requires a female choir to sing for 5 minutes at the very end. So we'll just basically do that for the end of the concert. Our real first concert will be in November sometime. Should be interesting.

Off to bed now - more work tomorrow. YIKES. It's good to be busy but not good being so busy that you can't think straight anymore. Can't wait for the weekend!