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I spent all day on the shop floor today, serving customers. shelving books, finding things for people. I managed to get to lunch without crying and then I went slushy because I had gin and tonics for dinner and we started talking about the old days.

I've just shut the shop up for the last time ever, this time tomorrow I'll be a book buyer...
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What a busy boy I've been, but what a special ten days I've had.

I no longer work in a bookshop. After 7 years I'm out, Waterstone's has seen the last of me.

I met up with my old area manager who now works at head office and he asked me If I'd ever thought of leaving to go to head office, I said 'uh...
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This week has been utterly dull.

1- I went to Bath.
2- For a 3 day bookselling conference.
3- I was stuck on a train for 7 hours.

What happened to my rock and roll?

I'm in work and I feel terrible.
I went to Popstarz on friday night for the first time in years, has Redstripe got crack in it? I couldn't stop drinking it I had to leave London early saturday to get back to Brighton and then I went out straight after work and drank Sailor Jerry to ease my pain. We ended up in the Pod...
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I'm going to get my hair cut tomorrow. I'm a bit scared, every time I think about it I do a little wee. I hate people touching my head, it makes me feel sick

I'm going to lose my new 'tache too. I look like a 70s Leeds United player.

I'll post a new profile picture to share the horror.

The Christmas temps left today, I'm gutted, at least two of them were doing my job better than me. I should leave, every day I spend in work I get closer to being found out as a complete incompetent. I'm going to a bookselling conference next week and that makes it worse because the other managers all look at me in a funny way. I...
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The march of technological progress is a great achievement for humanity.

Breakthroughs in medical knowledge allow us to live longer.

Space Aeronautics give us an insight into our early life as a planet in a huge universe.

The internet offers a global sharing of culture, phillosophy, and intellect.

And we now get Channel 5 in Brighton.

Documentaries about dangerous rodents, Australian soaps that were axed...
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The march of technological progress is great achievement for humanity.

Breakthroughs in medical knowledge allow us to live longer.

Space Aeronautics give us an insight into our early life as a planet in a huge universe.

The internet offers a global sharing of culture, phillosophy, and intellect.

And we know get Channel 5 in Brighton.

Documentaries about dangerous rodents, Australian soaps that were axed in...
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I've watched The Office Christmas Special at last. It's beautiful. I welled when Dawn opened the paints in the car and read Tim's message, and then when she walked back in, a la Officer and a Gentleman, I went to bits and started crying like a giddy young fop.

I love a happy ending and a bit of requited previously unrequited love.

Last night a chap came up to me and asked me if I'm in the Eighties matchbox b line disaster. I said no, sorry, he said ok, ten minutes later he was back, his girlfriend says Oh yeah it is isn't it? No i'm not him. Petra confirms I'm definitely not him. They go off. An hour later he comes back with a mate. Sorry...
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