Job Joy and Lindy Love

Good Evening My Dears,

Apologies for the long silence, it seems to be approaching a habit rather quickly.  I will have to be more timely with my posts.  I have been working at Standard Life for just under a month and am enjoying the job immensely.  It is nice and repetitive  just the thing I need to get my mind over my job jinxes of the past few months.  I work great hours as well, I am out of work at 3:30 pm every day and I work a seven hour day.  That means that I can get stuff done.

For instance, today was a gorgeous day of about 73 degrees here in enchanting Edinburgh so I had a training session outside.  It was tiring but fun.  This past weekend was a great one though seriously tiring. I spent the weekend dancing, indoors and out, at the Edinburgh Lindy Exchange.  I also hosted Eszter, a Hungarian woman who lives in Belgium.  Her host gift was chocolate.  Does she know me, or what?  Given that I am female it really wasn't that much of a stretch, however.  I lost a very expensive shoe at the Exchange, check out remixvintageshoes.com and look for the 1930's pump called deco.  Once you see the price, you'll understand why part of the weekend was fraught. Thankfully, like Cinderella, I found it on Saturday night at the ball.   I also met lots of cool people, some of whom are now Facebook friends.

I am sorry this post is so short but I find that I am exhausted and must go chillax.  I promise not to stay away so long next time. Right, that's all she wrote, folks.

Next Up: Papa pops into town and we go a-wandering.

Cheerio for Now,

Tina

Keyboard Kaput and a Temping Tantrum

Good Evening My Dears,

Apologies once again for the long silence, I have been running around dealing with various issues in regard to starting my new temp assignment.  When last I wrote, I was firmly fringe frolicking and I mentioned that I was going to try to get tickets for an interactive show called "You once said Yes", a walking tour show in which the choices you make dictate where the show goes - literally and figuratively.  No joy for that show, they were sold out till the end of the festival.  I did get a second review published in the Indie Pedant but  with the festival over I think I am going to have to shift my focus to reviewing Edinburgh's Social Scene.

I have been doing quite a bit of socializing of late, though some of it was circumstance driven.  Sorry... What?  Before your confusion mounts, let me elaborate.  Last Saturday, 27 August, I received a letter from the temp agency informing me that I would be starting on Monday 28 August.  That meant that I had 2 days to get myself ready for work.  After spending the weekend running around getting the weekly shop and various other bits and bobs accomplished, I show up to work promptly at 9 am Monday morning, only to find that I was actually due to start the following Monday, that is, tomorrow, 5th September.  Never mind that the 28th was actually Sunday.  Needless to say I was not very happy with this state of affairs.  I left the office and gave the temp agency and earful of ire.  Except that this being Britain, I did it with considerable politeness.  So as I had a week of freedom left, I decided to make the most of it.  That evening the writer's group was chock full o' tense undercurrents having to do with editing an anthology the group is putting together.  So my friend Kerry and I decided we were both in need of fortification.  Off to Greyfriars pub we went, for a wee dram.  After imbibing our whiskies, we both decided that we were hungry, and off we went for a bite to eat.  At the restaurant we were so engrossed in eating and planning, that we walked out on the bill without paying.  We got to the middle of the block before I stopped in the middle of the pavement and went "Kerry, did we pay?"  We returned to the restaurant to find that all of the staff was waiting outside for us.  It was embarrassing but rather hilarious all at the same time.  The restaurant staff were super cool about it, even managing to make us feel not quite so asinine by telling us that we timed the exit so perfectly they thought we were with another table that left at the same time. Needless to say Kerry and I chuckled over that for the rest of the week.  Tuesday through Sunday followed a whirlwind of social engagements that were capped of by afternoon tea at The Balmoral Hotel with Giselle and Joanna, earlier today.

In other news, the back light, 5, T,G, and B keys are not working on my keyboard.  Apple has no retail store in Edinburgh, so next Saturday I am off to Glasgow to get it fixed.  In the meantime, because so much of what I do depends on those keys, I spent a small fortune on an external keyboard.  Before you type it in the comments, I did check the keyboard settings to see if I changed them by accident.  I didn't.

Right, that is all she wrote folks.

Next Up: The First Week and another Glasgow Gallivant.

Cheerio for now,

Tina