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snapes_nightie

Real Life Update

Aug 22, 2006 11:09

Finally bonding with my new house, after spending a very lazy Sunday flopping around in it - trying out the new bath, finding the best spot for curling up with a book, discovering that having a dishwasher is really, really wonderful! I never thought I would be the kind of person to have a dishwasher. Nor for that matter, becoming a coffee snob. ( Read more... )

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amanuensis1 August 22 2006, 15:33:55 UTC

I want to read the Perez-Reverte books myself! They've received such great reviews.

snapes_nightie August 22 2006, 15:56:11 UTC

Didn't know there were others, that's cool. I liked this one because instead of the irritating smart-arse male narrator who knows everything (appearing in most thrillers), the fencing master knows nothing about anything unrelated to fencing and just gets dragged along with events.
Nice idea.

perfectbrian August 25 2006, 13:21:40 UTC

I know what you mean about job interviews, I had one for a well known catalogue store as a team manager, which had been sold to me as temporary by the agency, and after a really good (but long) interview, I enquired whether or not they would be happy with me leaving at the end of may (I'm off to Australia on a two year work visa) to be told that the position was permanent! Unsurprisingly I didn't get it, and the agency had the cheek to complain to me that if I'd kept quiet I would have gotten it!

Ok mini rant over, but I understand totally the nature of interviews, houses and life in general.

Good luck with the second interview!

snapes_nightie August 25 2006, 13:55:48 UTC

Thanks! There are so many horror stories about interviews! I hate the way they think they're doing you a favour by deigning to torture you for half an hour.

I had a very satisfactory moment a few years ago when I asked for one day off from a really tedious NHS job to go and watch the total eclipse in Cornwall. The manager said no, and I told her in that case, I would go anyway and not come back afterwards. Her face was a picture and I've never felt so empowered! *Cackle*

So you're off to Oz? That's really exciting. What are you going to do there?
x

perfectbrian August 30 2006, 10:30:09 UTC

I love feeling empowered, I got to tell my training supervisor off the other week, and it was glorious!

I'm semi going to work, and semi going to travel, I really can't wait, it's just working to save up cash now, but thats ok if you have a goal at the end of it, there's nothing worse than working day in day out without having anything to look forward to.