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A week where there has been little to do but go to work, Be A Man About Things, and slip rather too easily into the familial habit of functional alcoholism; it’s Silly Season in my life, and just about any old crap is newsworthy. Two brief items which raised the pulse briefly from Cold and Stiffening Rapidly, to Merely Worryingly Moribund:

1 – I’ve started to shed my knee-jerk Arts-student distaste of cashmoney business dealings. This week in my temp job – best be vague to avoid a potential firing – I was unsettlingly pleased when I had the opportunity to work out that a company we were paying to get certain things done had been taking a few too many of our moneys, and rearrange our systems so that we’ve been able to hire a different, more sane outfit and save a staggering amount of cash. Worst of all, the part I enjoyed most was reading an unsettled mail from the above-mentioned scumballs, which was as disingenuous as possible in trying to persuade us to keep them on. This was not really an admirable display of the sort of character I want to develop, so it’s lucky that…

2 – I got my first decent career break. In a couple of weeks I’ll be starting a brief internship with a major publishing house in London. It’s unpaid and there’s no guarantee of anything but a reference at the end of it, but it’s a godsend in an industry where “no specific experience yet” essentially translates to “hilariously naive fuckstick who can stick his ‘transferable skills’ up his ass and go work in a call centre”. I feel pretty fortunate to have gotten it, and extremely grateful to the stars who hooked me up. If you need me, I’ll be out back training on the coffee machine and stretching my photocopy muscles.