Day 1220

Did some ANSI C, listened to a fairly good version of the triffic The Third-Rate Genie kids' book by Robert Leeson on R4. Got my hard disc working! I looked through a lot of stuff on Compuserve for inspiration. Rather worrying inconsistencies in their charges which I must investigate, btw.

Started writing an abstraction for file lists in Quick C, and also tried out the abstraction concept in Pascal (it worked).

Drew up a new chart for the wait. Now I can definitely claim income support till Thu.Oct.5th. Because on the Friday I won't be actively seeking work and there's fuck all the DHSS can do about it. Better not write anything on the UB40 when I send it back, anything funny I mean, as employment may not be instant in 1996.

I know I'm going to Effolk primarily to improve my prospects but I hope something social comes out of it. I'd better not resent having to be off campus by 10.15pm at the very latest.

That reminds me, I've got to try and persuade the bank to give me a cheque guarantee card. I doubt if either the TSB or the building society'll have a cash machine on campus.