I chose sleep.

So, its been a busy week. Two days in a row I ended up with dehydration headaches after restricting my fluid intake because I knew I wouldn't have time to pee. What I do for my job. I ended up to tired or in too much pain to write so went to bed instead.

I also found out today that my much younger colleague now has 3 interviews after already being moved up the reserve list for one of the courses. I so know she's going to get onto the doctoral training before me. So depressing, but I will get there in the end! Oh, yes I will. And then I will over take her and shoot through the ranks once qualified. My skill and experience will be worth more than her luck and appropriate paperwork at some point. And not just hers, all the other youngsters with their still developing social brains and personal identities that are training to work with people in serious distress. #cananyonesaythewordbitter !

It's been a hard but goodish few days but I'm now three days behind in my positive things meaning I have to come up with at least 9 covering Wednesday, Thursday and today!

Wednesday
1. My supervisor told me she and my boss have been thinking about how they can keep me and help me improve my CV and they're willing to give me first authorship if I want to write up the results of some preliminary analysis we've done recently. That would be SPECTACULAR and it shows how much they value my contribution to the team.
2. I hung out with 2 gorgeous little girls and basically just had fun with them for 45minutes. They were so damned cute and it was such an enormous pleasure.
3. I had an idea about how I might earn some money on the side possibly enabling me to get an honorary research worker contract one day a week - tutoring A and AS level Psychology. Or babysitting. Or both.
4. It occurred to me I also might be able to volunteer one days a week with Prof S and just extend my hours on some days to make up the time. That might give her enough experience of me to write me an academic reference.
3. I lost another 600grams over night.

Thursday
1. My client that I've thought probably hasn't been that engaged with me shared more personal information with me. Makes me feel like he's starting to trust me and feels like what we have together is a safe space.
2. I met up with a girl from work for dinner who appears to be becoming a better and better friend even though we live on opposite sides of the country and this is the first time we've hung out alone socially. We had such a good long chat about a huge variety of things. It was refreshing.
3. Got to eat out. Sadly I had to pay for it and it was a lot more money than I was hoping to spend, but it was nice to do.
4. Confirmed a date to travel to Brighton to see a friend I haven't seen in person in probably 17 odd years!

Friday
1. Got a report + obs back with only the most minor adjustments.
2. Ate coffee cake for elevenses and had a cup cake for lunch. My waist and my blood sugar aren't happy, but I was.
3. Got to take an hours lunch break AND left half an hour early.
4. Hung out with my lovely pregnant friend for lunch (cup cake tasting).
5. Went for drinks with friends but only had three drinks so got to be social, but was home by 8 so I will have an early night.
6. When I got home I found I had actually put my leftover curry back in the fridge after decanting it into a tupperware to take to work for lunch. I thought I had left it on the counter so it wouldn't even be edible when I got home because it was a warm day today. Which brings me onto 7....
7. Today was a glorious sunny day! It was possible to be outside wearing only a light jacket. Summer is on its way at last!