Starting to Wrap Things Up

London is back to normal then. The mass exodus began as soon as the victory parade ended on Monday afternoon. Suitcases everywhere! Heading for airports, train stations and the dreaded M25. Not that I saw much of it – Tuesday was my rest day after working the weekend and I did very little. Well, I watched Parade’s End but we’ll not be talking about that – it’s awful!..A poor man's Downton.

This post isn’t going to be very long whatsoever and that’s for a few reasons:

Firstly, I worked all weekend on the stations at the Excel and although it was sunny and lovely and full of ice-cream and a guy called Damien (not important, we’ll leave that there) it wasn’t much to write home about or anything that I haven’t mentioned before. Secondly, as I mentioned, my day off this week was on Tuesday and was my chance to do something interesting to tell you all about. I didn't, I spent it in bed. Yes, that’s right, I did absolutely nothing and it was excellent. And thirdly, I really need to start weaning you off these – only two more to go!

A couple of semi-interesting things I’ve done this week…
It’s back to normal in the office. All the people who’ve been on the Games time 24/7 shift rota have returned to our main office so all of a sudden it’s busy and noisy again. Which is good! I’ve also got my first ‘proper’ mid-year review.. Now I’ve left the grad scheme I’ve had to agree proper grown up work objectives and all that (I can’t claim I’m fully aware of what they all are…) and this mid-year review assesses how well I’m doing towards meeting them by the end of year review in March/April. So, I’m sure that’ll be loads of fun…………………………………………

I’ve also been talking to one of the senior engineers in the team and have had an introductory session about SQL Servers and what DBAs do. I’ll be doing some shadowing over the next few weeks and will begin some formal training towards becoming a SQL DBA over the next few months. So that’s good too.

I’ve continued with the Life clear-out and have heard from my current land lady that someone is coming to view the room this evening. I won’t be here to show anyone around though (probably best, as I don’t really like the idea of having to lie to them) because I’m heading to Southampton for the latest instalment of Africa Gang Goes Wild.

Next week I’ve got flying mid-week visit from a few of the girls and the next group of grad schemers start. Yeah, the 2012 intake of graduate trainees start their induction week on Monday. Crazy, RIGHT?!

In other news…

Everyone who was allocated an iPhone or iPad for the summer has to give it back by 28^th September so if anyone has or knows of any iPhone 4 or iPhone 4S going at a reasonable price PLEASE let me know. I hate myself for it…but my HTC Desire just won’t cut it now I’ve been exposed to this Apple loveliness.

Must dash, I need to find my shoes for the weekend and finish sweeping. Just call me Cinderella!

Until next time,

Bren x