Get On, Clip In, Fall Off

Busy busy work work stuff.

There seems to have been a bit of a shortage of updates here over the last week or so. The reason for this is that, contrary to expectation, I've been busy - partly with figuring out various bits of bureaucracy, partly with an unexpectedly active social life, but also with arranging work.

My original intention was to spend the first two weeks of August doing nothing at all and just winding down, or at least doing as little as possible. That's not the way things have worked out, however - as of this morning I have not one but two gigs which will, between them, keep me busy for a while. This is, of course, excellent news as it means I get some income rather earlier than I'd expected and improves my financial situation somewhat. I'm looking forward to getting started, am fired up with enthusiasm, and so on.

Of course, this doesn't mean that I'm not looking for more work, just that my diary's starting to get kind of booked up. As well as everything else, I have an appointment tomorrow with the Inland Revenue to talk about all the things you have to talk about when getting started as a self-employed person.