Very Bad News

Got a final reply from my desired placement company:

Unfortunately we’re still no nearer to knowing whether or not a placement would be available; and I’d say it is unlikely at this stage.

My advice would be to pursue other opportunities available to you – that way if nothing materialises here, you won’t have placed your hopes on it.

Good luck, and if anything does come up here, we have your details and will be in touch.

Oh well, looks like I’m going to have to settle for something along the IT route. I suppose I can work on my portfolio and get some money together whilst ‘assisting with office moves’. My covering letter and CV are in the post headed for a place down on the Quayside. Hopefully I will get an interview; anything is better than nothing.

Just sold my drum pedals on ebay to pay for my new powerbook, still loving it. Gone home to Mum and Dad’s for the weekend, firstly for Mother’s Day, secondly for a night out at The Empire, and it’s just so great having it with me. I just flipped it open, cracked open iPhoto and amazed the parents with the photos from Lanzarote. “Oooh, they’re moving? It feels like you’re really there” said Mum about the Ken Burns effect.

Anyway, the pedals sold for £105, so that is £495 minus £105 which leaves me with £390 still to make up. Selling my PSP when we get back to Newcastle, and ringing tomorrow to get the £160 worth of tax owed to me by Game. I really do feel sorry for accountants, finances are rubbish.
I’ll blog with what happens about this placement, taroo.

Flickred Lanzarote

Just a few of the more ‘photographic’ pictures I took whilst we were away, click the image below to look at them.

Lanzarote

Me and Claire just got back from Lanzarote and I’ve had one of the greatest weeks of my life, even though we were ill for a couple of days. It was red hot every single day, not a cloud in the sky the whole week. I’m just going to sort through the photographs now and bang the best ones on flickr.

Going to be really, really busy in the next few weeks so don’t expect many more updates. One little other thing, I managed to get a lovely shiny new Apple Powerbook G4 off ebay for five-hundred quid, bargain!

Going to ring the placement place in the next couple of days, I’ll post with what happens.

Oh, and just to add to the chaos of this post, I read ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time‘ whilst we were sunning ourselves on the beach, it was brilliant.