I’m having a little time out in London for a week. My work in the medical centre has been very busy recently which is quite nice, but quite tiring too. It is coming up to flu season which means preparing all the recall lists, promotion and trying to get people to come in for things. I am part of the main team that does the prep work so been quite busy with that as well as a few other things.

My other jobs have also been busy, and to be honest I think I prefer it that way. I’ve been in jobs in past where you get a call and have to do something there and then and soon after its just waiting and nothing you can do productively and ends up reading online. I often took this time to read up on news or science stuff that interested me or attempted the online training while the sites were accessable.

I’m hoping to meet with friends this week, some are travelling down thursday – others are already in London. I don’t have a structure for the week apart from getting something from an office one day and a little shopping for supplies. I enjoy just wandering, or sitting in a park with a pad of paper drawing and writing my thoughts and ideas and allowing my imagination to wander. I did manage to forget my pad of paper and pencil but should be able to get some while in London. Maybe it will mean this is updated more often.

I’ve missed my french holiday this year, mainly because of money costs. My trip to london will cost around £200 including most costs and food. A trip to france would cost me around three or four times as much but would usually have nicer weather and I’d get to know more people. I’m having the break now, and thats something I really feel I need. I’ve had a great sleep last night, slept about 12 hours – longest I think in months. I did however wake up around 7.15 (Normal time for work) and then remembered I was not at work and turned over and back away.

I know what I write isn’t really interesting to most people, and its my outlet – occasionally I’ll put something useful on here but mainly its just me rambling on.

I quite like the new change to the news system, its useful to have everything in one place although on a small screen its quite full. I like the idea of what others have been up to on the right hand side and it does make it a lot easier to be nosey about whats going on.

Isn’t that what a lot of facebook is about though, to be nosey and discover what others are up too. To see what their current interest is in and if you feel that way too – a style of connecting with others.

I think facebook likes to change things every so often to raise its awareness in the media. Whenever they make a change they get lots of attention. The media outlets bounce onboard announding the new changes, people blog about it (like this) and tweet. They talk openly about “the changes” and if they agree/hate the changes and all in all, facebook gets a lot of people openly talking about it.

I wonder how many other organisations could get free publicity by changing something that gets peoples attention. It doesn’t seem to matter in facebooks case if its good or bad for the masses, they get a lot of attention and more people visit their sites. If more people visit, they get more page views, more page views equals more ads served, more ads means more income.

So by making a change they get more income and now you ask: “Why did they change?” – well its not like people don’t want to make more money is it?