Owee.

*sniffles* My head hurts.

I wore my glasses for a few days at the start of the week, and wearing them while looking at my computer screen at work gave me a really bad headache on Wednesday. I woke up this morning and it was bad again, so I took the day off work. I got up and checked out the net for two hours at noon, but until about half an hour ago, I've spent the whole day asleep.

And I still have a headache.

Thank God it's the weekend.

Vancouver.

Whenever I'm feeling crap, I go to Craigslist and look at places to live in Vancouver.

Looks like prices have gone up a bit...

I do wonder, sometimes, how the hell I'll ever get there. Getting more experience in working with Marketing and Publicity will probably help get a visa, and the ancestry thing might swing it for me a teensy bit. I think what I really need to do is speak to someone at the Canadian Embassy and find out if there's a snowflake's hope in Hell of being given a working visa; and then find out what I'd need to do to get it.

I do still want to join the TA, but I almost feel there's more chance of me getting to Vancouver than there is of me getting fit enough, soon enough to be in the Army.

Maybe if I got some qualifications in Marketing (my company might be able to help with that, having joined the Investors in People scheme) it would make it easier to get a visa. I know that you can get in on the strength of your qualifications if you're a secretary or a Business Development Officer. I've acted as assistant PA to the director of a company (I interviewed her nannies!), a receptionist and office manager (corporate and medical), I've helped devise brochures and adverts, I've done extensive proof-reading for brochures, adverts and venue maps. I've just joined the Publicity Committee (upon request, rather than a voluntarily) for my theatre society and I've co-created a website intended to elevate the online presence of underappreciated actors - which is almost at launch stage. With a bit of practise, I could regain my grasp of conversational French, and also Italian.

I'm twenty-four in November. And I have got a fuckload of very useful experience.

Maybe the qualification is a way to go about it.

I'm just crap at studying, is the problem.

Edit: Oooh ooh ooh! They're halving the application fee to get to Canada - they're trying to make it easier for skilled workers. Sounds like they're a bit desperate. Maybe they'll have me after all...

Pegasus Two

*sighs* I wasn't going to, but it's Hewlett...

Pegs 2, watch out for the combats.