Cazzle's Blurty

Day Six
ECDL sucked ass. I went to the wrong place for the test - I arrived nice and early, and waited around in reception for the lady to come and take me to the test room. She arrived five minutes later, sauntered down the steps and informed me that I was meant to be in another building. !!!!!!!!

I ran out, leapt into the car and drove like a crazy woman. The place I was meant to be was about half a mile away. I parked up and ran in, and was there for exactly 10:30. The nice reception lady took me up to the actual test centre and I was only about five minutes late, thankfully.

At this point, the woman running the test asked if I'd got the email she'd sent me that morning. Given that I was wearing jeans and a very casual t-shirt, I thought it was pretty obvious I hadn't, but I said "No, I haven't been at work today" and she proceeded to inform me that I needed to take the diagnostic test first. I had been planning on not putting myself through that paticular brand of torment, since there are 70-odd questions on the diagnostic as opposed to 32 on the actual test, but wevs.

An hour later I finally left, having got a comfortable pass with 88%. I was mildly annoyed to not have got over 90%, but the questions that tripped me up were things specific to Lotus Notes which I can't use anyway (because the PC I did have it on got replaced, and my Lotus Notes was never re-installed on the new machine.) I just use webmail, dude. Amongst the annoyances of the test were a good deal of questions where I would use keyboard functions (like, you know, THE DELETE KEY) that isn't a valid answer in ECDL. FFS! I got 100% on the browser/internet parts, obv.

I've been stupidly busy for the rest of the day and have made chocolate crunchie, which has been delicious. I also made a little bag of sweets "from Honeydukes" for my line manager's little boy, who kindly lent me his toy owl for the event I did on Saturday. I printed off a Honeydukes logo from Teh Interwebs and filled the bag with Edible Wands (Flyers), Fizzing Whizzbees (those sherbert flying saucer things) and Every Flavour Jelly Beans (thank you, Sainsburys.) I hope he likes them!

Current Mood: tired