B-e-a-ootiful!

Sorry to start with a Jim Carrey line. Believe it or not I'm not a huge fan. I went for a stroll to the next village yesterday (sounds very Austen, but is in actual fact just the next collection of shops across the dual carriageway) with mum and bumped into one of her customers. Today mum was at work and the customer came in and told her I was beautiful.

I don't often get compliments and although a part of me suspects mum may be making up the whole story to instill some semblance of self esteem in me, I would be quietly pleased that someone thought that.

Anyway, onto the exciting stuff. I went mad and splashed out on a shiny piece of kit, all £1.97 for a pedometer. The healthy human walks approximately 10,000 steps each day, burning around 450 kcals. I put the thing on at around midday and at 11:30pm I've hit the grand total of.... 745.

Excellent.

To make up for my complete lack of physical activity I did apply for three jobs today, all of which hold some sort of excitement. I'm waiting with bated breath to hear back from the poor people I coughed at for an hour had an interview with last week. I would actually quite like the position and they seem to be quite innovative which would interest me, help develop my career and enable them to see if my degree is actually of any use.

Again a short and sweet post, followed by a little relaxation and hopefully a non-eventful night's sleep. For the past three nights I've had very odd dreams...

I had an interview today for an Assistant Product Manager position. I hope I came across well, even with the coughing fit halfway through. I even had to be escorted, apologising profusely, to the ladies to hack up a small portion of my guts. I've had a viral cough for about 3 weeks now and it appeared to be getting better, but decided to hit me at the most important time!

Ah well. At least they now also know how I behave under socially embarrassing conditions.

The agency booked another temp for today to cover my assignment, so I'm free for the afternoon. I spent some time looking at jobs and internships, but sadly the jobs on the careers website seemed boring and the exciting looking ones don't pay enough for me to afford to pay back my CDL. Part of me wonders if it was really worth it. The bank wrote to me today as well to remind me that my interest free overdraft will start reducing soon... 17.9% interest on anything over the interest free portion! I think that's higher than some credit cards. Eek.

Working on Liz's leaflet today. Having to create a map image because the maps I can get hold of are of a low resolution and are hard to read.