Today was a good day

I went for another interview in Farnborough today, having not yet heard anything about the interview I attended there two weeks ago (for a different job) since the interviewer went on annual leave before telling YinI whether he'd made a decision. Today's interview turned out to be not a formal interview at all, but merely a chance to go through my CV and find out what kind of job I'd be suited for.

It was quite relaxing since I got to chat with the interviewer, and then with the current YinI students for about an hour, and then a short guided tour around the grounds - during which I discovered their building has a gym and a general library, and a 'common room' with newspapers, leather sofas, vending machines and free internet access - and then off home again with a good hour's reading on the way back. I don't know why, but I really do find commuting by train relaxing - all that time when you get to just sit and read, uninterrupted and in a world of your own.

You can tell I don't travel by train that much, can't you?

Anyway, almost immediately I walked in the door, I got a phonecall from YinI offering me the web design job from the two-weeks-ago interview, which I really really wanted. So I now have a job all sorted for next year (and hopefully sponsorship through university, and a job at the end of it, if it all goes well). Yay me.

Actually, the first good thing that happened today (as far as I can remember - I haven't got up that early in three weeks, so a lot of this morning is a blur in my memory) was getting on my train and finding £2.15 on the seat that had presumably fallen out of the pocket of whoever was last sitting there. On the basis of "see a penny, pick it up", etc. (and the fact that the train was pulling out of the station by that time) I have to say I pocketed the lot. It seemed to work; I think I almost got 215 pennies' worth of luck out of it!

Having got the web design job, it means I now get to spend the summer getting to grips with tricker CSS and having a stab at learning ASP, which is what's used on their intranet pages. Should be fun :)