As usual, I'm not sure whether to do one long disconnected, rambling post, or a couple of short single-topic posts. And as usual, laziness is going to win, and I'm just going to ramble. Maybe I'll put little subheadings in, just to make it look not quite so monotonous...

Personal Update
So. Things are going well - I accepted a job offer, and am now proudly employed again. Like I've mentioned before, I generally try not to post about work, and I think that's a policy I'm going to stick to pretty strictly. Not that many people read this blog anyway, and not that I'd spill any company secrets - but rather safe than sorry.

On the flat side - got new flatmates, who also seem pretty nice. And the big news: the landlady brought over a freeview box! Haven't got it hooked up yet, since she forgot the cable, but we'll probably have it working by Tuesday. Which means, more TV! The free channels here pretty much suck, and I've been missing watching decent TV, so I'm really excited. Of course it's difficult in a shared flat - if someone is watching something else, you can't take over and change the channel; and this place is so small that even if they're watching something that you would want to watch, there isn't really any place for you to sit and watch with them, seeing as there's only the one couch. But at least now there'll be TV that I can watch if no-one else is watching... better than nothing :-) Still want to get my own flat, though - I'm on a 6 month lease, but with a 3 month minimum stay, so I'll get settled into my new job, figure out a budget (still not used to the prices of things here), and then start looking around. I found this place via gumtree, which is a useful site, but I think I'm going to go slightly more upmarket next time and try somewhere like rightmove.co.uk - their places seem to be only slightly more expensive, but really nice.

Hmm. I was going to write more about seeing the Tower of London, and about my new camera (the Nikon Coolpix P1), and the cellphone contract and phone I want to get from T-Mobile - but real, true laziness has won out and I'll just end here for now :-)