Livejournal

I've started a Liejournal. I really like Blogger, it's easy to re-style and add extra links and stuff, but there's a lot of stuff it can't do that Livejournal can. I like the community feel that Livejournal has, and the fact that I can make some of my entries private or viewable only by friends.

So I'll do both for a bit. This one may end up going dormant except for the odd ramble.

More here: http://skittn.livejournal.com

No Gnus is Good Gnus

Stil no gnus er, news, on the uni job. I don't think I'll hear anything now, it's more than a week after their contact said they hoped to be doing interviews. Oh well.

*tear*

It's frustrating when you know how well suited to the job you would be, and the skills they say they want are exactly the ones you've got, and more.

My pessimistic side suspects there is some anti-call centre experience snobbery at play. It's a reasonably prevalent attitude that call centre representatives are somehow mentally deficient. I agree there's quite a few that live up to that stereotype, hell, I work with enough of them. But I don't go round thinking that all people who work in retail are disinterested bimbos either.
</sour grapes>

Meanwhile, it's a certain someone's 30th birthday this Thursday and I still haven't got him a present. I have a couple of things in mind but I won't be able to get them until Friday, partly due to the need for payday to swing round and partly because I'm working 9 - 5 all week and can't get in to town. Poor Planning Produces Pain. :/

However, I expect to see as many people as possible at Hadley's on Saturday, for pre-Lala celebratory birthday cocktails. Or there'll be trouble.

One door closes....

Well no, I didn't get the job. I didn't mind initially, but then they publicised the list of successful applicants.

Meh.

Rock beats scissors.
Bragging incompetence beats accomplished timidity.

I got some excellent feedback from the interviewers though, which will help me in my next quest...

There's a really interesting looking Student Adviser position going at the Uni. The pay is more than what I'm on now even with weekend loadings, regular hours, amazing (like, 17%) superannuation... and best yet, the campus is just down the road. If I walk to work most days, not only will I get fit from walking back up Lynton Avenue, which is almost steep enough to require a ladder, but I'll save at least $80 a month on petrol.

But I have to finish writing the application first. How on earth do you demonstrate "an understanding of the University environment" in writing? I was a student once, does that count??

Back to it then, it closes tomorrow. Eek.