Adventures in the Mouse House

I nearly bought a bike in a sale last week, but figured I don't have enough money, I can still get a second hand one cheaper, I'm not going to really use it, etc.

I've now lined up some temp work. Very part time, for very little money (so little, you can tell how desperate I am). It's easy enough to get to by bus (for those who know Bristol, it's in Cadbury Heath so I just get on either bus that comes past here and stay on till the end of the line) but that doesn't get round the cost of the bus. Fares goin' up AGAIN next week too. It's just over 3 miles from here - ie too far for me to walk, especially with all the hills in the way.

It would be perfect for cycling.

I'd go back and buy the bike today, except that I just got my credit card bill and it's bad. In the anyone want to buy a kidney? sense. And I start on Wednesday so there's no time to go looking in the small ads for second hand bikes.

I'm going to try walking it now, to see if it's feasible to at least walk home every day and save on some bus fares.

Edit: I got over halfway there before I realised I needed to turn back if I was going to make it home, so in theory walking home is do-able; am unsure about multiple days/week or doing anything constructive after I walk home.

I'm going back to work tomorrow. It's 3 weeks of 3 days a week (just what I need) at the University of Bristol. I wouldn't have wanted to start this early, but it's really hard to get a foot in the door at the university, and if all else fails and I have to go back to office work, it's where I'd rather be. The hourly rate is so low that even I normally wouldn't bother, but I don't want to do anything that's remotely taxing my brain at the moment either.

I haven't been terribly productive lately anyway, so I'm hoping that adding some structure to my life but leaving myself more free time than full time work allows will help with that.

I broke my rule about sleeping during the day again,because at this point I'm more desperate to have had some sleep than to have my body clock properly set. It's going to get a nasty surprise come tomorrow morning anyway.