I want to tell y'all about my not-a-date, but can't decide how much to tell. I'll post later today, but probably under flock. Doesn't seem right to talk about someone else in a public post.

My Great Room Clearing Project - last night I sorted through all my books. I didn't think I'd be able to part with any books, though I'm still desperate for the shelf-space. But I've filled four bags with books I'm willing to part with. Some I've owned for years but never read; others I've read and disliked, or didn't like enough to want to keep. Now, of course, they're cluttering up my floor until I can take 'em to the charity shop. Unless sis will drive me it's going to be one bag a week or something: books are heavy.

I may skip the cinema this weekend: I've looked at what's on offer and there's nothing that really interests me. The George Clooney film, maybe... But everything else interesting I've already seen.

I'm back to being snowed under at work as my team is one member down for a few more weeks. There are some big changes going on with the technical side of what I do, and I'm once again being asked to take the lead with that. Which is okay, except I'm really not the expert the boss thinks I am. When it comes to software, if you give me something that works I can usually figure out why it works, but that doesn't mean I can write it from scratch. And the data aggregation system we've got is so ancient there is no manual in existence. Oh, this is gonna be an adventure...

Last week was out LGBTT awareness week in work. Which is why I've been kinda quiet: I've been working my ass off getting stuff ready for that. I had to do 'most everything in my own time, not because my manager wouldn't let me have time to do it (she's been very supportive, actually) but because I've had too damn much to do during working hours. My choices were stay late at work to do it, or go home and do it. Staying in work would have gotten me credit for the time, but honestly, I'd rather use my own PC where I won't run into the office firewall every time I try to access a lesbian site.

(The office firewall is homophobic. Seriously. You can get into gay activist websites like Stonewall, but not anything with "lesbian" in the keywords. Not even information sites. It stinks.)

Anyhow, we ended up with a nice, colourful display, with plenty of literature for people to read. The office Starbucks franchise did a special offer coffee for us on Thursday: with raspberry and almond syrup which turns the coffee pink. I know, it sounds disgusting. I meant to try one but I was so busy that day I just didn't have time. But it was a cool idea, and if nothing else it got people talking, which was the point.

Thursday I spent an hour or so handing out leaflets to folks as they walked into the building, and had my obligatory confrontation with a so-called Christian who just had to stick his oar in where it wasn't wanted. The jerk told me there's never any homosexuality in the animal kingdom, so I told him to go google "gay penguins" and then come back. When he refused to believe there was any such thing I told him not to waste his time talking about god to me and despite the pentegram around my neck he assumed I was an atheist. Son of a... I've got no time for jerks like that.

I'd also agreed to talk about my experiences at work as part of the open training that day. So, naturally, I spent most of the day, and Friday, battling a migraine. Stress, I suppose. But I got through it. I know some people went away thinking I was being over sensitive, but the way I see it if even one person left that room thinking about what I'd said, it was worth the headache.

In the second session, one of the attendees was...um, I probably shouldn't give his name. A guy I confronted a couple of years ago about a homophobic joke he told during a training session. He apologised (publicly) at the time, so I let it go, but I never felt he really understood why his joke was so damned offensive (because he'd implied that gay men are predators). Seeing him in that session I was really, really tempted to include that incident instead of the one I'd planned to talk about. But I didn't. I hope him being there means he does get it now, or at least that he's trying.

Anyhow, it was a successful, if stressful week.