Day 775

Up in a panic at 9.05 and hurried into town by bike. Arriving at the job club I enquired of a tosser and found the 'induction'. There flashed into my mind the Pris arche-scene where the new prisoner comes into the rec-room for the first time. I half expected Nora to step forward and greet me warily.

We had to say who we were and what we expected: I said I had come because they'd threatened to stop my benefit if I didn't. The bloke denied this unconvincingly and several of the others plainly didn't believe him.

Things picked up a bit after this, during the break I rang M from a phone box in the High Street (I'd meant to do so before leaving). CV stuff and more crap afterwards, but it went well enough. 'Jesus wept' said the bloke on seeing my 13 O-levels etc.

M came round in the evening with the shareware discs so I could make backup copies. J was with her, said hello; they're off to Greece tomorrow. Watched Quantum Leap.