Just before Christmas, <3 and I decided to start looking for a house of our own, found a strong contender in Wantage, put in an offer and had it accepted. Since then we have applied for a mortgage, engaged a solicitor, and found out from the surveyor that he will recommend to our lender that they approve the mortgage. Scary stuff, but it looks like we should soon own our very own house.
In the last few months of 2004 I had no less than three job interviews in various places. The third one resulted in a job offer on the same day our offer on the house was accepted. Since then I have handed in my notice at my current employer, done assorted paperwork, and arranged a start date for the new employer. The new job is as a "Data Storage Administrator", which involves helping to look after a scientific data storage facility and doing some programming in Python -- a language that I admitted in the interview to not knowing, but which I am currently learning the basics of to give myself a headstart.
Also before Christmas I found out that I had achieved a distinction in my last OU course. This means that, as far as I can make out, all I have to do is pass my remaining three courses to get the best degree classification possible. Yay!
A momentous end to last year.
