I am rather struggling with this new contract I’ve taken up. It’s strange because I should be able to just fire things out without much thought – it’s fairly simple writing work, far less complex than pretty much anything I’ve written or edited in years. I was talking it through with the GF, and he […]
Paint job
It was a funny sort of weekend, with both of us feeling anxious and tense about the flat and its progress, as well as various work related matters. For me, there was the annoyance of one of my longstanding clients revealing that as of two years ago invoices have to be submitted using a special […]
Day 2 of too many
Day 2 was marginally better than day 1, in that I found some work to do, but not much. In the evening I had a pleasant chat with the chief editor of our magazine. We are discussing how to set up a charity to accept small payments for workshops etc, so that the magazine can […]
Day 1 of too many
Today was the first day of a new contract, and it felt quite dismal. This is for the contract for which I was interviewed without realising it about a month ago. For one, it’s a far more corporate setup than I was prepared for (though I should have been), with corporate email address, Microsoft Teams, […]
Again, unexpected
To my surprise, my negotiation was successful and I received an offer very close to what I asked for – in addition to an increased number of working days. So, hurrah! In the evening the GF and I went to a part of Besiktas we had not yet visited, a quiet, trendy bit with a […]
Unexpected
This afternoon I had a call with a potential client to discuss the work and found, to my surprise, it was actually a job interview complete with questions beginning ‘Could you describe a time when…’. Maybe I am more confident than I used to be, or I don’t need the work as much as I […]
Clients return
A client call this morning, for a promising new project. Fingers crossed it works out better than Skype. Emails are starting to come in from clients, particularly the academic ones as they are clearly using the summer to finish up papers left hanging in end of term duties. In the afternoon we went to see […]
Go, go, go!
And my computer came on this morning and I immediately set to work, frantically backing up and setting up backup systems. I have no idea what happened, but well, I suppose it’s time to pay for a proper backup now, automated, since I’m incapable of managing it myself. Thank heavens. I’m reconciled to buying a […]
Flicker of hope
A flicker of hope this morning as my computer came on for a few seconds, seemingly in the same state as I’d left it on Saturday. It immediately went out again but it seems at least that the data at least is still there. I should have gone for the repair today but my feet […]
Shattered
This morning I turned on my computer for a bit of work and – it would not come on. The power light stayed on, the fan was on but the machine was cool, and nothing. Dead. It looks like the motherboard, which has long threatened to expire, might finally have died, and of course this […]