A lot has happened since my last update! Firstly, after receiving numerous very good offers up and down the country, I finally accepted a position as Graduate Software Engineer at Rare in Twycross. It was a tough decision since there were three offers that stood out as being absolutely excellent, but I settled for Rare since they take care of their employees well (being owned by Microsoft…) and it seems like a fun place to work, which is the most important thing I guess. It just seems like such a shame turning down such good offers 
Anyway, after the weeks of constant phone conversations, interviews, emails and so on, I thought it’d be nice to have a break. This didn’t happen of course, since I need somewhere to live. The very day they sent through the contracts to sign, me and my girlfriend rocketed off up North to find a new pad. We looked around Nuneaton (yuck…), Hinckley (eww…), Coalville (oh dear god) and Atherstone (yay!), and long story short ended up finding the perfect flat; it’s in the lovely town of Atherstone, it has a balcony overlooking a canal lock, it’s spacious and well-presented, and it has a garage for our bikes. We’re both dead chuffed 
Unfortunately the current occupants don’t move out until after I’ve started work so I’ll have to spend a couple of weeks living in a B&B, but it’s all paid for by them so no worries I suppose.
Right, those are the exciting bits… what else have I done?… I polished my bike the other day, and… ate… some cheese…
Ok, that’s about it I suppose, stay tuned for updates on CITS, more travel journal stuff, and more of me bleating on about how sickeningly successful I’m being at the moment.
Rare is a really great place to work, from what I understand.
I hope you work out well over there.