Return to Reality February 10, 2008
Posted by Jen in : Journal , trackbackWell, enough’s enough. No more loafing about, eating fluff and Marmite and writing bits of nonsense. Time to earn some money while The Novel festers ferments. Monday morning = work. Oh joy, another temping job. I’m working on the theory that this one can’t possibly be as bad as the first few weeks of the last one.
I’ll do the temping ‘thing’. I’ll be nice. I’ll be smiley. Then I’ll come home and tell everyone about ventilation systems, how everyone was mean to me and shout a bit.
It’ll be good to get back to normal. Apart from anything else, I suspect I’m allergic to writing. I tried my suit on this morning and, seriously, I have totally swollen up…
Oh, ‘eck. I loathe starting new jobs. I’m going to have an early night and do a little bit of worrying now…
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Good luck Jen. At least you’ve finished the novel. Yay!
Hopefully this temp job will be chock full of whizzy people and you’ll come home singing a happy tune:-)
Good look Jen, I have EVERYTHING crossed for you tomorrow that it will be the best temp job you’ve ever had, so good that you’ll be sad to leave it. Love the cartoon - how bloody true is that!?!
Good luck honey - I hope today goes well for you!!
Congrats again on finishing The Novel!!
C x
Hope you’ve had a good day!
Gosh, novel finished, eh? That’s rather marvellous.Hope the job goes well.
JJx
Maybe it’ll be better than you think and you’ll really, really love it and you’ll come home and tear up the novel, and bash the computer in and say, ‘what was I doing, I don’t want to be a writer, I want to do THIS (whatever it is) I want it MORE THAN ANYTHING,’ and you’ll sit there in your suit, staring into space, while someone phones for help…
Or maybe it’ll just be ok.
Oh dear - I do empathise. Although I think it’s work I’m allergic to rather than writing and that’s why I’m so swollen up. I sometimes wonder about temping, rather than trying to hold down two ‘not quite enough money’ jobs. Hope it went well x
Lane - I survived, which is quite good. Maybe a little glass of wine will help with the happy, singy bit?
Yvonne - cartoon’s great, isn’t it? I wish I could think up things like that.
Carol - thanks, twice!
Helen - at least I didn’t come home crying so better than the last job
JJ - yep, all done and festering nicely before a mega-rewrite. The Novel, that is, not me…
Karen - hmmm… admin in a ventilation control company vs. being a writer. It’s a tricky one. But yes, it was ok. That’s something, innit?!
Helen - Maybe it’s the sunny weather responsible for swollen-upness - we’re simply expanding in the heat? There’s a lot to be said for temping - I hate that feeling of being a useless dimwit but the ‘no pressure’ aspect is fab.
I hope today went okay. x
Jen I’m not implying that you are going to be doing lots of temping cos obviously someone will leap at your novel but it does get easier to go to each new job - or do you just care less and less? - either way !
A Writer - it was… um… yes. The photocopier confounded me but I managed not to get my hair in the shredder.
Breezy - I think you’re right, it gets easier to stop caring about being some sort of supersonic wonderwoman after a while. ‘I can’t do anything now and in 2 weeks I’ll be gone’ kind of thing. Can’t decide whether I like that transient feeling or not really.
I trust you’re first day at work wasn’t the existential hell it is for the rest of us. {though secretly waiting to hear your moan-a-thon about it}
Plus you’ve “finished” your book, in an unfinished, things still to do, obsessive tweaking sort of way. Well done - no really, well done. Finishing (even “finishing”) is a major life skill and to be celebrated. Pat yourself on your back, or get Lovely B/F to do it. And let yourself have a small smile: you’ve “finished”! xxx
Congrats on finishing your novel. Let it breathe for a bit before you go back to it. Best of luck with temping. Been there and done that. I just want to get out of my day job soooooo bad I will do almost anything. Almost!
Glad it’s going OK.
Photocopiers are annoying at the best of times. I stay well clear of them. And as for not getting your hair in the shredder - Well done! I have a mate who has a habit of putting Jelly Babies in the shredder…
Monsieur Bobo - ’twas most uneventful. You’ll be as disappointed as me to learn that the new work bods are all very nice and therefore thoroughly unsuitable as blog material
Sarah - Temping is sort of grim but sort of gung-ho too. Day jobs are worse because they rather expect you to keep turning up every day. Bastards.
Zinnia - Yes. It’s ok. But ‘ok’ isn’t exactly life-enhancing, is it?
A Writer - the photocopier in this office can almost fly to the moon unmanned. Seriously. Jelly Babies eh? I wonder whether Marmite sandwiches would work?