I'm so tired *curls up in a ball and weeps* I'm sitting here, feeling like I've been awake for days, struggling to think and feeling generally shit. And tonight I get to work properly, since my training is officially finished. Fabulous.

Work's being going okay so far. Thanks everyone for your mindless optimism ;D Things have gone smoothly, generally. Although there have been problems when machines have gone down and I haven't had the training to do anything else, which has resulted in me wandering around and going out to the locker room to play Tomb Raider for a couple of hours at a time. Very boring indeed. My training has been much harder than I'd thought it would be. In my old department, you pretty much controlled how fast the machines worked, but in my new department, the machines control you. And they go fucking fast *cries* I'm still all fingers and thumbs and utterly, utterly paranoid that I'm doing it wrong and am going to kill some poor sap who has to use the stuff I've been making. Everyone's been very nice though and they keep telling me that everyone's slow at first. This, strangely, only makes me feel worse. And then there's the whole having to talk to new people thing. Which I am crap at. Well, it's not that I'm crap exactly. If someone starts talking to me, then I'm fine. But I have an inability to initiate a conversation with someone I don't really know. It's getting pretty ridiculous. I'm still sitting with the people from my old department for breaks - even though I don't really know the ones that are left, but I feel more comfortable with them than new people - but their breaks finish about five minutes before mine, and I'm left sitting there by myself like a fool. I need to suck it up and talk to people *nod*

So, yeah. Tired. So tired. I slept for twelve hours on Monday and only woke up because my Mum came into the room and went 'Eh, Lorraine. It's 11pm. Don't you have to go to work soon?' causing much panic. And I know I would have slept for just as long on Tuesday and Wednesday, but I've been setting my alarm clock. So for the past two days I've gotten 8.5 hours of sleep and I still feel like I could curl up and sleep for a week *le sigh*

In other news, I have finally downloaded the new Goblet of Fire trailers going around and whee!!!! I'm all excited and shtuff =D Also - OMG THE IRISH QUIDDITCH TEAM!!! *needs an icon immediately* The sparkliness of their appearance more than makes up for their puzzling absence in the Harry Potter Quidditch game.

And now a quick recommendation for you - Lick Evil by nepenth. An incredibly amusing look at the complicated love triangle that is Severus-Sirius-Remus. Take a look. You know you want to =D

( A political Meme. How do I feel about the results? I'm not sure. Slightly confused perhaps. )