Thursday, January 22, 2004

22 January, Thursday: My big news is that I walked to work today. It was fun and invigorating. Light mist but no rain. By the time I got to the stairs at work I was feeling like a million pounds (the currency, not the weight). Then the dreaded stairs. Just yesterday I was practically running up them. Now I could barely drag myself from step to step. The laptop on my back had matured into a PC. Sweat poured off my brow as I huffed and puffed my way to our office. I felt like a million pounds (the weight, not the currency). (Claire just said, “You’re making it sound like it’s the Empire State Building.”)

It took me forty minutes to get to work, Carole said it’s about two miles, so I didn’t aerobicize, but I did okay.

After a check of my emails, I did a phone interview for the Ireland position. Following that, I once again called Carphone Warehouse regarding my home long distance service. Andy, the manager, hadn’t gotten back to me for days. But a sales associate named Rosie answered, said Andy was off and could I call back Saturday. I said no, I couldn’t wait any longer and I gave her the details. At first she couldn’t understand what I wanted (oh no, not that again), but was able to help me, and soon I’ll have 5p a minute LD from my home to the states. Andy won’t get a cheddar eraser, but Rosie will.

After lunch, I did a few more phone interviews and had an hour long conference call concerning the US part of my job. Then I spoke to Jill and the kids. That sure made me smile.

I also spoke to Jennifer, the immigration consultant. Things look good. She’ll get the forms to me soon and we need to get some info from our Chartered Accountant here. Then we’ll file the documents when I return from Ireland. I’m going over by ferry with Simon instead of flying. He said he’d appreciate my assistance with a meeting with a customer in Cork prior to doing the interviews in Dublin. We can only do one full day of interviews as he needs to get back for a meeting the following day.

Heard from my friend at Comedy Sportz Chorley. I’m going there next Thursday evening after work. That should be fun.

The day just flew by. So much to do.

Took the bus home. Okay, I’m a wimp. Did some grocery shopping—and then home for dinner and the BBC.