Anyone know of anywhere that is looking for someone who does whatever it is that I do (combination of pleb/business analyst/process analyst/whatever)?

I think I have reached my breaking point.

I am back in job-hating mode. My job has been intensely boring for the past few months, but I've been enjoying it anyway because I've been back in a team and having daily contact with more than two people. Now I'm moving upstairs away from actual people to work in project-land on a data-cleansing project. "Data-cleansing" always sounds a little ( Read more... )

I have a new guitar.

Technically, it is my first real six string (as I didn't own any of the ones I played previously, and the bass that I do own has only four strings) - but I didn't buy it at the five and dime, and my fingers aren't bleeding yet, although they are quite red and throbby.

It looks like this:


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Lately, people keep asking me about the state of my love life. I'm not sure if it's because I haven't had a boyfriend in a while or because I'm approaching some sort of age where people think I should be thinking about settling down ( Read more... )

Well, here I am in the city of my birth. It's changed over the past ten years or so, but in much the same way that I've changed - I'm still pretty much the same person just older and WAY MORE AWESOME. Wellington is the same. I want to move here ( Read more... )

Flicking radio stations in the car on the way home; caller talking about drugs or crime or something: 'they found some pills on me and i got taken aside into a booth for strip-searching- that's a booth where you get strip searched and they strip you completely naked and they check everywhere to prove you dont have anything on you. They check your ( Read more... )

I have salad for lunch. You may not win friends with salad, but it is very tasty. Specifically, it's a thai salad from sumo salad with a dressing which evidently contains fish sauce ( Read more... )

I had a most excellent weekend this weekend - it was Alice's birthday; I showed up for dinner on Saturday night and found out she's gotten engaged to Graham and is also three months pregnant ( Read more... )

Yesterday, whilst at the pub for a quick post-June 30 pick-me-up, I noticed a lady across the road ( Read more... )

Lately I keep wanting to eat things that I think are comfort-foody; and I eat them and then realise that said foodstuff which I formerly loved is still delicious, but also makes me feel slightly ill. Unless it is a vegetable or fruit. I think this is telling me something about my diet.