Posted by De_Vere on Tue 3 Jan 06, 1:21 PM to De_Vere's blog.
And I still haven't replied to e-mails, memos – there goes the resolution of being fast and effective this year! But fear not, I will get to the bottom of things today – will spend tomorrow away from the computer, and need to sort things out. The few final days in IC loom ahead... Thanks to the fact that I will soon be reliant of the library computer, I will not be able to venture to IC for quite some time after the weekend, I suspect. That'll mean that I will be contactable on my e-mail, should someone wish to do so (hint, hint!).
Having one of those surreal days today. Here I am, on holiday, drafting my CV in a desperate attempt to get another job some point this year. Checking in and out of IC and trying to find the uninterrupted time to reply to memos, to take part is discussions – and failing, hence why I'm on-line sporadically and confuse everyone, myself included. And at the same time my best friends from school is in 'the cutter', having a c-section and becoming a mother. My other friend has another months to go, and she'll pop out another mini-me!
Odd things, how we all became friends and have maintained that certain level of closeness even though we all ended up in different places. They did their A-levels – I changed cities and did marketing to my heart content. They settled down – I joined the army and spent a few months mis-using handcuffs while on leave (let's be honest, that's what the MPs did, at least in my company! Truncheons and handcuffs were lost on an alarming speed…). They started getting career-wise – I went to the Uni, studied Machiavelli and Clausewitz, getting drunk on cheap polish vodka and partaking in strange sporting activities (like cricket!).
They started having children – I went overboard on the pervy and scared an innocent civilian on a company xmas do (enough about that, but now I know that getting too dominant to a complete civilian might scare them, ha ha 
..).
And here we are again. My friends with their quest to raise families, and myself with my quest to find the perfect prison/police officers uniform for my smutty purposes.
Yes indeed. Things have changed, and regardless of what our shared past might be, we won't understand each other as well as we used to. But I suppose we are now all clearer on what we want out of life, and know how to get there (or thereabouts). So that's my plan for this year. Get the ring of 'O', wear it every day and boldly go ahead in my life, never forgetting who I am. It's easy in this day and age to lose the sight of yourself and what you want. In 2006, I'll aim to remember that I'm not like my friends, and that that's all right.
| 3 Jan 06, 7:55 PM Inveigle UK, 11 yrs   |
Best of luck with the search for a new life. Just remember that there'll be plenty of idiots trying to screw it up for you. God must love idiots - he made so many of them...
"To do is to be." - Socrates. |
| 3 Jan 06, 10:47 PM De_Vere 6 yrs |
You got to love idiots, though! I've worked with them for such a long time..
"Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess." (Oscar Wilde) |
