Week 4: A Bleak View

This week was only four days long and pretty much lacking any excitement whatsoever. It started, as far as I can remember, with me making some more god forsaken showcards and doing a hell of a lot more mail outs. There is always the odd little job to be done for the publicity director Sara, but this usually involves photocopying and mailing books as well.

The highlight was definitely the jacket meeting I was allowed to attend on wednesday (see next entry) but I don’t really understand why it took four weeks for me to finally be allowed to sit in on one of these meetings and why it is the only one I have gone to. As a partial optimist I should really just be that that I got to go at all, but I find that easier said than done.

On Friday I had to use Sara’s computer and log unto Media Disk to search for some specific people to mail them books. The great thing about sitting in Sara’s office is the view. It is incredible. One gets to see almost all of Bloomsbury, including of course, the beautiful British Museum with its circular glass roof and the reading room protruding from the centre like its core. More impressively though is the view of the Senate House (University of London). This is, of course, where George Orwell worked for the BBC and would later serve as the architectural inspiration behind his bleak ‘Ministry of Truth’ in his novel, 1984.

Anyways, other than the view, which I guess was pretty bleak as well; the week was thankfully coming to an end. With the final week just around the corner I should really be looking for jobs and revising for exams.