Knightfall

Are you familiar with Knightfall? It was a Batman comic book series from the early 90s that introduced us to the villain Bane (whom will be appearing in the next Batman film, ‘The Dark Knight Rises’) which saw the drug-induced muscle-bound geezer brake the very back of the Batman. He did this by deciding to blow a big hole in the wall of Arkham Asylum which saw all of Batman’s foes loose upon the city which took a very long time for him to gather up and put back (once they’d filled the hole in the wall of course) and basically knackered him out a fair bit. This was exactly what Bane wanted as it made his ultimate aim of breaking the Batman much easier. This is all relevant because I know how Batman felt back then.

A few weeks ago I was officially made the Projection Manager of my site due to my Manager officially being made full-time on another project away from site. Great, my moment of glory had come! However, we haven’t gone digital yet so what should be a four-man team has been reduced to a three-man team with no full-time replacement. We managed to get a part-timer for 8-16 hours per week, which does help a great deal but still makes things a little difficult. Last week we had a ridiculous 12 new films in which was a tall order given other technical limitations beyond our control. Somehow we managed to get through it all but then the real problems started; one of my full-timers has been omitted into hospital and will be out-of-action for a while. And so what should be a four-man team has been reduced to a two-man team….. and it’s half-term…. and I’ve got a cold developing!! Throw into the mix some other restrictions such as job interviews, uni assessments, babies and holidays, it’s been a bit of a nightmare couple of weeks for me.

So I’ve basically had to put my life on hold for a couple of weeks and just work my socks off. It’ll be tiring and stressful but I’m nearly half-way through my 7-day working week and after that I’m hoping things will get a little easier, except by then my Sister would have been given birth to my nephew and then things will be completely different again.

Enough of that though, for I must just give a quick mention to my great weekend last week! I spent it in Birmingham, as indicated by my previous blog, attending the Purple Mermaids Circus Society convention at the university (had to think so hard and not type Purple Nurples then). The University alone was very impressive and like another world to me, and the convention itself was brilliant fun. I came away with the aim to be able to officially declare that I can juggle with three balls by the end of the year (because I like making life tricky for myself and giving me all manor of challenges, most of which are beyond me). So thanks to Katie for inviting us and letting us sleep in your front room :D

Okay, I feel like I must now don my armour gear and throw myself back into the breach. See ya on the other side…. hopefully.