Things have changed (as Bob Dylan once said)

I’ve finished working at the supermarket then. I had a couple of panicky times early in the week worrying that I’d done the wrong thing, then on the last day I kept thinking I might miss it, but now I’ve left I have to say my over-riding emotion is RELIEF and my over-riding thought is ‘Thank **** that’s over.’
They gave me a nice send-off in the end. Dave said a few words during our lunch break and they handed me a voucher, which obviously has to be spent in the supermarket. Apparently there was a whip-round, then the store matched it pound for pound, so there’s quite a nice sum for me to spend, bless ‘em. I’ve put it away in a drawer. If I don’t get a job in the New Year we may need it to buy groceries.
On Saturday night I went out for a ‘goodbye fling’ with some of the team, but I wasn’t really in the mood. I like them, but I just wanted to be away from them all, so at half-ten I said I was shattered and wanted to go home rather than bring on the swine flu symptoms again.. Yesterday I had a nice lunch with Nathan and Hannah, then we went for a walk in the snow. Nathan kept trying to sculpt a snowman with a crucifix on his chest, so we came back in and played bowling on the Wii. Today I’m settling down to watch ‘Citizen Kane’ on DVD. It was on offer for three quid on a website, and I want to see what all the fuss is about.
Strange to think I haven’t got to work at all this week, and that I no longer have to be up all night moving produce. Hang on – did I say ‘strange’? What I meant to say was ****ING MARVELLOUS!!!
Here’s to the future.

RC 21-12-09