Well this past week sucked balls due to the second cold I've caught in 3 weeks of living in London!
I guess working many hours and lots of travel on the tube adds up to a weak immune system and lots of germs flying around!
Around about half way through Monday I felt my throat go - and it was a down hill ride from that point!
Took a few cheeky snaps of the Resolve suites on my way round, this is where the colour grading is done... basically creating a "look" for any adverts or music videos that come our way. Check out here for some examples!
Before I'd got sick on Monday I'd signed up to do some training in our Media Transfer/Library department - as I was on earlys I was getting in at 7.30 and my day was done by 3.30 so it wasn't too much bother (or so I thought while I was healthy) to stick around for a few more hours to learn some more about the business. I managed to train Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday night, but by Thursday I just couldn't face another 10 hour day so I went home after I finished my shift and got an early night.
So, feeling better on Friday meant I was full of the energy I'd been missing all week - I got contact from Natalie Durkin from Folkestone that her and Nai would be up in London that evening and were wondering if I'd be game for meeting up (damn straight I was, any chance to see a familiar face will not be passed!) and I also needed to get myself some new shoes as all the running about had literally worn a hole in the bottom of my trainers!
Nai doesn't do small drinks... |
So after starting at 7.30 I finished paid work at 3.30, trained until 6.30 (the department I was training in literally exploded with work when I arrived to start so I ended up actually helping out with work instead of just learning - a much better way to learn I actually find!) then nipped to Oxford Street and got myself a new pair of shoes! Home, shower and back out by 8 to go meet Durks and Nai in Camden for a cheeky Chinese take away from one of the stalls and then a couple of pints! NOICE!
Saturday was my first weekend shift at work. I had to be in by 8am so my Friday night out was cut quite short. I arrived a little early (7.30) as I didn't know what the tubes would be like at that time on a weekend and it was quite a good job too as the people I had to open the building up for turned up early!
Saturday shift at work was one of the oddest things I've ever been paid to do, I felt a little guilty if I'm honest! Basically I opened up the building, let 3 people in, one to paint a room, one to plant some plants in pots on our roof garden and the third to test some fire alarms...and then I sat there, watched some iPlayer, cruised facebook, played a few games, listened to the radio... At one point I nipped out and got lunch (which the company also pay for) and then when everyone was done I locked the building back up again and went on my merry! And for that I was being paid £9 odd an hour! Thats full of win in my book! Apparently some weekends aren't such a cruise, when we have clients and more staff coming in to actually work then theres more stuff to be done, but quite often it will literally be that quiet, not that I'm complaining!
After work on Saturday I still had a fair amount of energy and the rain was holding back so I wandered up Regents Street and visited Hamleys Toy Shop, I've distant memories of being there as a kid (it felt a lot smaller than I remember, but that could've been because it was RAMMED) but I wandered around with a childish grin on my face, there are a lot of staff doing demo's of the toys there, people literally getting paid to play with toys all day, seems like a fun place to job and was definately a fun place to visit! I found a Lego Sherlock which reminded me of Kate and Jordan so I took a picture =)
Sunday I had decided would be a lazy day, I intended to get up late, lounge around, play some playstation and be as lazy as possible.
Instead I woke up at 9, couldn't get back to sleep, sorted some washing, went shopping and spent the whole day photoshopping!
Next week (which is actually this week cos I'm starting to lag behind with writing these) I'll be training in the Support department, only doing a 4 day week (but on the late shift) and having my first weekend back in Folkestone since moving up here! All this and more to look forward to!!!