It’s been a busy week. Monday I got a surprise in the morning when I discovered that I was supposed to be on site that very morning, when I had resigned myself to another week without an assignment. So I scrambled and got to Big Investment Bank’s (BIB) office at Canary Wharf. The rest of the week was spent in starting to familiarise myself with the applications which we will be testing. It has become blindingly obvious that, although BIB has not gotten budgetary approval for the project, the project manager was afraid of losing me to another project. Thus, they agreed to pay my employer retroactively for my services once approval is achieved. The QA project manager admitted to me that he has no idea when, or even whether, approval will happen. So, there is nothing to do but read online documentation and get my head around it. I fall asleep quite frequently for short amounts of time, as the material is, at best, soporific.
Tuesday night I went to Lodge of Improvement at Kenton, blowing off a meeting of Diocesan Lay Chairs. Unfortunately, not enough brethren showed up at the meeting, so we spent the time chatting and having a drink. While that was nice, I am a bit miffed about it. I wish that the meeting were in a place that was more accessible to my Lodge brothers so that they might be more likely to attend.
Wednesday night was yoga class. I managed to do several things that I couldn’t do before, which was quite good. There will be no classes next week as the teacher is going on holiday, so I’ll just have to do my cardio.
Thursday morning I had blood taken for my diabetic appointment at the end of the month. There was a bruise in my arm when I took the Bandaid off later that day. The nurse is very good at slipping the needle in without much pain, but I think a little bit of blood leaked out. Thursday night I thought I was going to a book signing, but discovered when I got there that I’d misread the date and it had happened a week earlier. Boy, did I feel annoyed.
Friday evening, instead of going to the gym like I should we went out to Nando’s to have chicken, and then I tried to shift the backlog of emails and communications I’ve had all week. I finally did it this morning. I discovered that celery and carrot juice, mixed with some ginger beer, is quite tasty. Everyone else in the house went “Yuck!” but I think it was fine, and solved the problem of what to do with a half glass of ginger beer (diet) that was left in the bottle.
Today I have to prepare for the second meeting of the Nurture group at St. Anne’s, and try to relax a bit. I hope it will work well.