Terry Wogan the god of Morning Radio

Well, now... I get up at 7:30am and put on the Radio for company. It's BBC radio 2's Wake up to Wogan show. As a result I laugh like a loon every morning and find it impossible not to dance as I'm trying to get dressed... it makes the whole process that little bit more complicated, in a good way! I love the music line-up, not because it's my music taste, but because it upholds a kind of all-encompassing random ethic, and old fogie classics, like Dolly Parton (sniff) but they like playing the Rolling Stones 'Paint it Black', which I love, and Eva Cassidy... It cheers me up on a morning anyway.

Children In Need is coming up soon... Which is always a joy... I do think Wogans a great man, for all his strange Irish ramblings...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/wogan/podcast/index.shtml

I've really gotta start writing stuff instead of resorting to links!

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A Very Old Bear

My good friend informed me earlier today that it was in fact Winnie The Pooh's 80th Birthday last week... so I though I might as well find a picture... None of that American Pooh in a Tshirt nonsense! Hehe! Happy Birthday Pooh!

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Meet Mr Monk...oh...and Korn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbnKtnEW5hM

This is not the best example of the wonderful Monk in action, but I felt it was a significnt clip, not only because I love the show... but the pleasure of Korn's appaling input into the episode is hilarious!! Check out the line... "maybe we should, uh, find out his name and dedicate a song to him"...truely heartfelt....hehe!! I don't mind Korn, but oh my! It's just quite surreal!!

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The Ominous Induction

Well, I've been INDUCTED into work, and now have emerged with a wad of paper detailing a load of people who I may or may not meet during the year I'm here. It sounds kind of scientific... it was called GENERIC INDUCTION which I feel is a very poor title to settle on, and it sounds very intimidating. Yes, this is the kind of discussion I find myself having with colleagues... I need to rediscover my life!!

I keep hearing that song by Razorlight, 'America', and I'm really starting to like it... particularly the line (kind of important) "All my life, trouble in America" which is fairly identifiable in most of us, I imagine. I may be taking it out of context, but I find it the most striking part of the song. It's turning into one of those songs that starts playing in my head when I walk at the right speed! Awesome! As long as Aga Doo doesn't start playing I'm fine.

Local Radio, Minster FM is hilarious, as it tends to play songs that are blatantly from the same CD, songs that were never released as singles even... I reckon they have maybe 10 CDs in their collection, and the Radio DJ guys do their very best to accomodate a ludicrously wide range of tastes (apart from good music) usually the kind of songs that cheesy DJs play at Weddings...Not that I've been to a wedding with a DJ... Bands, or string quartets, thats what tasteful people have! Yes, I am implying I only know people with good taste.

And I wonder whats happened to Jools Holland... Damn I have no Jazz to hand... I'm really in the mood for Jazz...

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Energy Sapping Zone of Evil

Ok, so maybe I'm exaggerating, but the reason I'm finding it increasingly hard to Blog is that when I get home I really can't be bothered to look at another computer screen. I'm sitting during my lunchbreak wondering what to write and trying to resist the urge to think about work for 10 more minutes.

In general I'm not the kind of person who minds sitting around with not much to do, but at the moment I'm certainly feeling the urge to complain. I'm told it's normal at the beginning of a new job to feel a little aimless, and everything will kick off big style tomorrow when I begin scanning in some new questionnaires. Woohoo!

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I'm Employed!!!

Hello people, and on bahalf of me, and myself, and I, I sincerely apologise for being so damned neglectful of you wonderful people...you who kept me going through my job search. And I will now post again... "AT LAST!!"... I hear one person cry... tsk!

Well, I spent a week in York looking for jobs, got a job interiew (my second ever) and apparently, according to my new colleagues, I nailed it! So now I know that the key to success in job interviews is to actually be incredibly enthusiastic, and emotive, and talk about the future, and your ambitions... I had no idea what I was saying, and still can't remember although certain things keep coming back to me...

Anyway, the long and short of it is, I got a call 10 minutes after the interview offering me the Graduate Internship in Student Services at York St John University, and thats where I started work on monday, getting up at 7:30 every morning... and I have an electronic Key to lots of doors, and an intranet diary thingy, and I'm due to get a Badge with my name and title on it in the next few weeks. And I am enjoying the thrills of learning to use Excel to an advanced level. I'm officially an office monkey... something I said I'd never be! Bring it on...

More anon dear folk... I'll not foresake you again!