The Wimbledon final is underway, and I'm hoping it's going to be a thrilling game. It's a little bit strange not to have Roger Federer in it: he limped out against Thomas Berdych earlier in the competition – and it will be interesting to see if it will be a passing of the torch moment, like when Federer trumped Sampras all those years ago.

There's something thoroughly entertaining about Nadal. He plays with such intensity, such fire; a steely determination to never give up, never allow a single point to slip away. He literally plays every point as if he were against match point. And yet, he has such endurance that you have to think the longer the game goes, the more it favours him.

Berdych is a relative unknown. Although he if he wins, he will be the first person to ever win the title having gone through the top three players in the world to do so.

There are some famous faces in the crowd, too, and you can see why: it's a fantastic event. The sun is shining, there are strawberries and cream and offer, and tennis is a game that you don't have to follow to appreciate.

I can go a year without watching it, but sit down and appreciate Roger Federer's pinpoint precision and appreciate such poetic skill. And I'm hoping it will be the same here, with these two players.

With my post-graduate course drawing to a close, I'm having to look around at jobs that I can apply for when it finishes. And now, I suppose. Better to get the applications in as early as possible.

When I first came out of university, there was barely a job to go around. In the arts field, the creative field, there were even less than many of the other areas; and it made it relatively impossible to find the sort of work I wanted to find.

Doing the extra course was partly because of that. And, partly, it was so I could separate myself a little more from the next batch of hopefuls graduating and flooding the market.

And while it strikes me that the job market is a lot better this summer than it was last year, it's still, inevitably, going to be hard to get a job.

So this time I'm approaching it with a different mindset. This time I'm happy to do anything, at least at first. Mostly anything, anyway. Even if it means using the old elbow grease and doing basic office cleaning work.

At least until something more my preferred thing comes along. That way, I can be earning something and not just sitting around doing nothing, and I can at least maintain something of a social life.

Who knows – maybe something ideal will spring up just in time for the course to finish.

I quite like making mental notes and lists of things that look nice, or that I'm sure I'd like, and then weighing up their pros and cons over a few days, before ultimately deciding whether or not to pull the trigger on the purchase.

Most of the time it happens with books. Books are fantastic for holidays, and I'll certainly be needing some – but I don't want to buy something just for the sake of it: I want to be sure I'm going to enjoy it. Or as sure as it's possible to be, because most of the time you can't really be sure about such things.

One book I'm almost certainly going to get is STORIES, a compilation of short stories edited by Neil Gaiman and Al Sarrantonio. It has received rave reviews, and sounds brilliant. And perfect to dip in and out of, while abroad.

But there are other, less well known places to shop online, not necessarily for books, but certainly for interesting and often unusual goods. Shiny Shack is particularly interesting, especially when you don't necessarily know what it is you're after, or you are looking to buy particularly unusual gift ideas. Or you can do the more traditional Kelkoo search: search for a product you know, and let it find the best price for you.