Mon, 27 Jan 2003

author Tim	location Golders Green, Greater London, England
posted 23:09 GMT	section Europe2002/Europe/UK/England/London/Working in London 1 ( all photos )

Liz is a Nurse (again)! ( No photos )
No, this time for real!!! She actually has various fairly un-impressive pieces of paper to prove it!! She gave up waiting for the courier, went in and vented at the agency and recieved said documents in exchange.
We have an appointment later this week to get a National Insurance number (somewhere between a Tax File Number and a Medicare Number), and need to get letters from our relevant agencies saying that we are who we say we are. Of course, that was too hard for Liz's agency to have organised (they didn't even know they could until today), and offered to send it out to her.
Fat chance.
So, Liz is planning on heading back in later this week to pick it up, hopefully just in time.
I have found out that my place of work will employ me at least until the end of March, which will be just in time for a couple of weeks off before Gallipoli. That's another load off my mind.
Now, if we could just open a bank account...
Worked back a couple of hours tonight to fix a major configuration problem they didn't even know they had. They have agreed to pay whatever overtime is needed, since the deadline for the project is splashed across all forms of media here, and people are starting to worry it isn't going to work out well. Which sounds just like every other project anyone ever does!
There has been a Tube derailment here, we were nowhere near it and are not affected by it. However, it is the busiest line in the network (depending on how you measure it), and still closed. This, combined with tomorrow's fourty-eight hour fire strike is causing no end of fun to keep us interested.

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