Let this cup pass by

So, I've decided to let this contract go past. A variety of reasons, but ... well, the major one being that it's a short time scale, and a bit of a complication with getting contract release - I thought (and so did my colleagues) that it was essentially immediate, but there seems to be 3 weeks notice built in.
We're still clarifying that, but either way it makes 'start friday' unrealistic.
There's also the questioning of the term - 3 months is not enough to get a place to call home, which'd leave... well, basically still indeterminacy, and 'another 3 months'.
Might be doable, at some point, but a month off is definitely in order first, not least because it overlaps Whitby.

There's a lot to think about if I go that route - from what I've seen of the market, most 'contract' stuff can run into years, but does so in small increments, and so.... well, would require finding a 'base'.

*shrug*.
Anyway. Defer everything for a month, and see how it looks for November.

Who are you?

One of the questions I've been thinking about recently, is the evaluation of 'who are you'.
How would you answer, if confronted by it by someone you don't know, at ... some arbitrary social occasion (e.g. not one where you'd answer in terms of your relationship to the hosts, such as a wedding).

What makes you who you are? Me, I think I have a large part of that as being my job. I define a lot of who I am, by 'what I do', and so ... when faced with incipient redundancy, that leads me to question that gap a lot. On one hand, I guess.... well, I've always been quite career minded and ambitious. I define a lot of my 'worth' by that.

So ... well, how would _you_ define yourself? The answer obviously has many facets, but ... what's the biggest thing that makes you who you are?

Cookery

So, on some cookery program on the bunkum box earlier, was crique ardechoise.
It's a potato pancake, sort of:
http://aioliandco.blogspot.com/2007/11/crique-ardechoise-et-frisee.html

I guess a bit like a seasoned hash brown.

I think I might have to have a go at this.