wishlist

As a result of leaving, I am now in possession of a WHSmith giftcard to the tune of £40. This is good. However, I’ve been scooting round their site, and they don’t seem to have hardly anything off my amazon wishlist, so I may have to come up with a different plan. (Not that I can spend it on their site, I actually have to go to a shop!)

(I’m also very touched that they got me a smiths card – am guessing that at least one of the management team was very aware of the whole book thing and therefore got me something appropriate.)

So, I could wait for them to get Mess of Blues in, as I’d really like that.

I could see whether they actually have Fantastic Four (Single Disc Edition) [2005] at something more reasonable than the headline nearly £20 that I found it listed there.

And then what? I think I’ll take the children and we’ll spend some of it together and call it Easter presents. And we’ll keep some of it for when we’ve moved. 🙂

(They don’t have Grimspace. But I *want* to read about me! Ooh, they might have The Rose Daughter, which I’m fairly sure I don’t have. At least, I don’t remember having it. Wonder if they’ve got any Sheri S Tepper? (My big problem here is that with a largish number of my books packed in boxes and likely to stay that way for a while, I could end up duplicating up. Which wouldn’t be a complete disaster, but would be irritating, as book resale value just doesn’t seem to be very good atm.))

So I’ve done my last real day at work – it was very quiet. I think a lot of ppl thought I’d already finished. I got a few nice emails and only one phone call (was expecting at least two more from ppl who had said they would call before I finished, but must have got distracted 🙁 ). Must remember to ask them to do a new internal phone list without my home number on, especially if we’re leaving and some other poor soul might end up with it.

Wonder if we’re moving? I know that they’ve done some of the references, but I don’t know how quickly they get back to us about it all. Might give them a ring on Monday to find out.

Aargh Monday! What am I going to wear? rofl, I’m going to wear what I always wear for work – sensible trousers, sensible shoes and a vaguely sensible top. Think I might try to spice it up with some colours that I wouldn’t have risked in an office (go back to what I used to wear for social work basically).

Boy, I’m nervous. Yes, I know that’s to be expected. You see, while I love education, I do like working in IT – I like the team environment, the sarcasm, the intelligence. I love abstract problem solving, and I do actually like training and mentoring individuals, and it’s not going to be the same in the new environment. But it will have other pros. Ah, I do feel sometimes like there are two of me and if only I could split down the centre and have two careers at once, as well as staying at home with the children. Ok, three of me. Well, we’ll just have to see how working with the children works out – at least I’ll see them a bit more often.

Will be deactivating this blog from the ring by Monday, so if you want to read it and you get here via the ring, you need to make other arrangements 🙂