07.04.99 - Ultra easy

My busy week is turning out to be not so busy so far and I am quite pleased about that. Yesterday was horrible because I had a chronic headache all afternoon and I thought I was going to throw up on the journey home on the tube train. I felt a bit better when I got out into the fresh air and walked along the street back to the flat and then I got inside and flopped onto my bed and fell asleep for...err... I am not sure how long I was asleep but it must have been at least 45 minutes. I woke up feeling so much better and decided I was going to take it ultra easy for the rest of the night. I made a nice quick easy dinner and my flatmate didn't get home until late which was nice because I didn't have to worry about being in his way. I then had a nice long soak in the bath and had an early night. Well it was going to be an early night but I ended up staying awake until about midnight watching TV in bed. I wanted to stay up later because there was a really cool black and white ghost movie on and I love those things. I had actually seen it before though so I made the decision to turn the set off and get some much needed sleep.

Today was much better even though one of my work colleagues (who is leaving the department fairly soon) snapped at me while I was asking a question. My manager called his name and frowned at him as if to tell him off but it got things off on the wrong foot which can sometimes screw up your day. Thankfully it didn't though and I managed to resolve quite a lot of calls on my own despite having no knowledge about what they were calling about! Some of them I resolved by using bullshit and some I resolved by figuring out how to do it myself while the caller was on the line. I had another professional massage just after lunch and it looks as though we are going to have this regularly now which is kind of cool don't you think?

I had a question and answer session with my manager too which lasted quite a while. We talked about how I was getting on, any questions I may have, were there any problems? etc. During this little meeting the subject of promotion and pay rise was broached which took me back a little because I have only been there just under 3 weeks! I am expected to progress beyond "Trainee" status in about August or September which will mean a promotion and then following that there is the yearly pay rise too. Wohoo! I can certainly do with the money and even better than that is the idea that I would actually be recognised in some way for the work I do.

I am getting a tiny bit annoyed with my flatmate. He seems to generate little piles of paperwork and general mess wherever he settles in the flat and while I don't really care as it is space that I don't use that much, I still think he could get a little more organised or make a little more effort. I haven't mentioned this to him though because I am sure it must seem to anyone that I am being too picky of fussy or something. I'm not. You try living with it. The other thing that is really pissing me off BIG TIME is that fact that the boiler needs servicing and he just keeps ignoring this fact and not doing anything about it. While he was away on holiday recently the boiler broke down and a friend of mine who is a boiler managed to come round and fix it. I gave him some money of course to cover the cost of the parts he bought which was only around £5 but I gave him the £20 I had and said I was not bothered about change and that he could keep it to say thanks and get himself a drink on me or something. I figured that as I had sorted this out and as I had sorted out the pump problem before that it was Peter's turn and he should sort out the service that needs doing. This is especially important because of the worry of carbon monoxide poisoning and I can't take any time off work whereas he is already working a shift pattern and can arrange for them to come and do it when he is here sometime in the day. I left him a note asking him to sort it out but still nothing. I don't know what to do because I am really worried about dying from carbon monoxide poisoning but at the same time I'm being stubborn about sorting this out and also because it would mean paying up front until the landlord can give us back the money. Grrrrr...... i'll have to approach this problem very soon before it consumes me!

I'm going to get a drink now and do a bit of ironing before this new TV show called "The Last Train" starts. It's set in a post holocaust world or something and it looks like it might be quite good. I think its a two part drama or a mini-series of some sort. While I am en route to the kitchen I might casually ask Peter if he has sorted out the boiler service. I really hate having to do stuff like that. Ugh.

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