A busy last few weeks, my laptop is now up and running and I hope to update more often again.
This week started with an interview for an internship with an environmental charity on monday morning. I spent sunday and the train into London preparing for the various standard interview questions. I think I had some pretty good responses lined up, but I hadn't reckoned on my interviewer's personality. He was Irish and he lived up to his stereotype exceedingly well. In what was a short 15 minute interview, I barely spoke for 2 minutes. This chap loved the sound of his own voice, so much so that he practically forgot to ask me any questions. When I did manage to fire in a response in between the long monologues, he interjected with, 'uhu' or 'Isee where you're coming from' and then went off on another one. He was a unstopable talking machine...
Anyway, not sure whether it ended up being a good interview, if you could call it an interview at all. Tuesday night at selection was a little hectic, having helped with colts and kept the bar for a few hours for the footballers.
The last few days Ive finally got some temping work in West London. Its basically preparing information packs for the Parkinsons Tissue Bank. Its extra busy this week due to it being Parkinsons week. Today we had an actually brain come in the mail. It really is very starnge, you get people ringing up when someone is on the way so that we can freeze their brain for transport to the lab. Apparently Jeremy Paxman is on our books, so if by some unfortunate happening, an interviewee on Newsnight were to give him his just desserts, I could well be looking at Jeremy Paxman's brain tomorrow morning.
Also, its possibly the only place in the world where repeatedly you hear the reassuring news that, 'its ok you're brain dissolves before you are buried anyway, so you might as well give it to us'.... Happened 3 times today!!
