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I suppose I might as well blog a bit while in work. In fact, I think I might blog a bit about work, while it's appropriate and I'm in the mood.

I currently have a to-do list of six items. One of which is crossed off. Another of which is, to quote from my Twitter feed, 'three more tiny yet significant details' from completion.

Twice I've called the fellow who has the answers I need. Once his mobile went a bit funny so I never got through and the second time his home phone was unavailable.

Such is life when you do this job, it seems.

Of course it's annoying when you have six articles on the go and nobody is available to talk, but that's life. I've got at least two more articles where I haven't gotten through even once. I have an interview to set up with a bloke I can't even get hold of and a Youth Club who refuses to answer my calls. Youth Clubs have very awkward times, and when they are available, they're busy.

Consequently, it's been a lot of twiddling my thumbs, calling, calling again, calling a third time... and writing frantically whenever something does come through. All I can do is keep calling; persist until I make that magical breakthrough, get my answers, polish off the piece, celebrate, pass out on my desk and then repeat the process.

All the same, I'm still finding this job tremendously good fun. I blinking love it, and wouldn't change my life for the world. Great friends, fantastic job, wonderful boyfriend, going to see my favourite band in August...

... there is that minor detail of leaving that all behind for university in September. But I'm trying to think positively about it. Faff though it is.

So. News from home. We have rats! No, Thelma hasn't inadvertently gotten pregnant and had a multitude of fuzzy rat-babies... remember crazy lady who vandalised Andy's car after her son's home was raided by police? Her son is crazy dope guy who lives in the downstairs flat next door.

Basically he's been dumping furniture in his garden, which our rodent friends are currently living in. If I'm correct, they've got a mortgage out on the place and everything. Nathan's convinced that he's heard scuttling and squeaking about the house (though it could have been Thelma, who goes into ninja mode every time I'm in the room because she wants PLAYTIME LIKE NAO), and yesterday, after I put out bread for the birds, I saw one venture out to nab some.

I thought it was a big mouse at first; Thelma's larger than it and she's pretty small, being a nipper. But a second glance had me realise that it was far too big for a mouse. It was just a smaller-than-my-small-rat rat.

Dad's calling in environmental control, which makes me terribly sad - I love animals more than peoples, most days - but what can we do? Wild rats multiply ridiculously fast and carry disease - it's not a good idea to have them around humans, let alone pet rats such as Thelma.

I think I'll still probably cry and chain myself to the dumped furniture in protest when they show up, though. They'll be using baited traps to catch them and the 'catch-and-release-elsewhere' method you see on the likes of Wildlife SOS isn't exactly realistic for pest control.

It's horrible. Absolutely horrible. I wish I could just scoop them all up and release them in the wild to frolic and play.

If they are in the house, and Nathan wasn't just going crazy or hearing Thelma ninja about, I'm going to have to keep her in her cage for a while. God, if she got caught in one of those baited traps... I think I'd go mental.

Speaking of critters, apparently William and Kate have adopted a penguin called Acorn. Think, very carefully, about where that puts Harry in entitlement to the throne.

LONG LIVE OUR EVENTUAL PENGUIN OVERLORDS.

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