Weds, Thurs & Fri....

I think it was Tuesday that I wrote my last proper update. I couldn't really tell you anything interesting that has happened between now and then. On Weds I met up with Michelle and someone she met at the backpackers place she was staying. She couldn't remember his name, and I was useless in finding out for her, but he was from the UK and had only been here a couple of days. They went to the coast on Weds evening, so I took some time out of my busy & frustrating work to go and see her for a java in town. I accounted for my time by buying a laminater on my way home. Great fun.
The Kapenguria stuff isn't going so great really. I can't find it in myself to be bothered any more. It's just annoying and everything I try and do works against me. So I am trying to decide whether to do as much as I can this morning and a bit of the afternoon, and then catch a matatu to Nanyuki for the weekend. I could even just stay the night and come back tomorrow with James & Matua. But I would like to have a nice weekend away. The question is how much of my money do I want to spend on it. I really want to go to Lamu, but I don't think I can afford that! I would have to fly, and I haven't even looked but I think it would be too much. And then next weekend, my last weekend, I am likely to be up in Pokot. Which just annoys me, especially as I've had an idea of what I want to do for my own research. I might talk to Dave Anderson about that today.

My main piece of news is that I had my interview with Tim & Gabe for the Public MA yesterday evening, and I got a place. Tim said at the beginning that my application and references were excellent (thanks Karen, for help with the App, and Matt, Norah & Nacho for the refs!) and that he was really only interviewing me because I was applying for funding. So that's cool. He also said that I needed to get my funding application in as soon as possible. So yesterday evening I decided not to go for the 'quick' drink with Leila & Reynolds, because I knew it wouldn't just be an hour and I wanted to get stuff done. Leila eventually came back at about 11.30. I hadn't got as much done as I had wanted, but I did have a lovely chat with the lovely Ceilidh. I did the statement, but I had also wanted to apply for a job that has a deadline of today. The deadline is 12pm tho, which gives me the whole of my lunchtime to do it in. I love the 3hr time difference sometimes. Now all I have to do is try and make Indesign work. I now pretty much know how to use it (love online how-to guides) but it's not actually working properly on this computer. It's just taking forever. I've been trying to create a new document for about half an hour. But the screen has just completely frozen now. *sigh* I'm never gonna get this done.

Leila was really sweet last night tho, I was a little pissed off, for reasons I won't go into, and she gave me a huge hug and apologised for not coming back sooner. Bless.

Right, in the absence of constructive things to do I shall go and look for the funding form I filled in a couple of months ago. And I might go update my other journal. Something to do. :)