I GOT AN INTERVIEW!

*gulp*

I've bought my plane ticket and I'm off to Canberra (to see my mummy) tomorrow (Saturday). Interview is on Monday morning and I fly back Monday afternoon.

*gulp*

I am SO BORED! There are no words for how bored I am. I am the boredest bored person in the whole of boredopolis.

I find out this week whether I get an interview in Canberra. I have my mobile phone perched on the edge of my desk near the window where it can get signal. Waiting, waiting.

Everyone’s acting like its minus a million degrees and about to blizzard or something. Its meant to be 8 degrees and I reckon it is or even more and the sun is shining and warm and yes it’s a little windy but its NOT COLD and, thus, I am NOT closing my window. Its 8 degrees, not 2, and it is NOT about to snow. The SUN is shining.

What is wrong with people?? Are they all stupid? Do they lack normal conversation skills that they need to invent new weather patterns just to have something to complain about?

They’ve all hot (pavlovian slip – I meant got) the air conditioners on 30 and wearing jumpers and jackets and scarves and slippers. Sure, I have my wrist warmers on, but I’m also only wearing a short-sleeved shirt of 1 layer. I’m not that stupid.

Rant over. But seriously, if one more person comes in here and asks "Aren't you cold?" I'm going to scream bloody murder.

OMG OMG OMG!

I just applied for a job in Canberra!

My current work, well, while I like the people a lot (sans boss) I have had little to no job satisfaction and have not been wanting to be here at all for a while now.

And then my review comes up and I get a grand total of $10 pay rise - I'm one of their longest serving employees!! And someone, younger than me, just out of uni, comes in and demands senior scientist salary and goodness knows what else and is earning twice as much as me.

So this position is basically the same as I am doing now but for AusAID and the Australian Government and the salary is $50-$55 and I will be in Canberra with my mummy.

My cat wouldn't like moving...

Anyway, they are interviewing in the week of the 15th, which means I should find out next week if I get called up.

I don't know whether to ask for luck or what!! I'm so scared of change that I almost don't want it and would rather stay here in my beautiful house that my kitty loves.

I don't know if I can be brave!

Yeah, baby. Got me my folk on.



Someone told me
It's all happening at the zoo.
I do believe it,
I do believe it's true.

Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Whoooa. Mmmmm.

It's a light and tumble journey
From the East Side to the park;
Just a fine and fancy ramble
To the zoo.

But you can take a crosstown bus
If it's raining or it's cold,
And the animals will love it
If you do.
If you do, now.


Something tells me
It's all happening at the zoo.
I do believe it,
I do believe it's true.

Mmmmm. Mmmmm. Whoooa. Mmmmm.

The monkeys stand for honesty,
Giraffes are insincere,
And the elephants are kindly but
They're dumb.
Orangutans are skeptical
Of changes in their cages,
And the zookeeper is very fond of rum.

Zebras are reactionaries,
Antelopes are missionaries,
Pigeons plot in secrecy,
And hamsters turn on frequently.
What a gas! You gotta come and see
At the zoo.
At the zoo.
At the zoo.
At the zoo.
At the zoo.
At the zoo.
At the zoo.
At the zoo.

Its always the way.

Sassy had had the same collar for going on 6 months (was a really good one) so I thought it was time for a new one. I go to the pet shop and buy her a nice new collar with a spangly Stargate on it. Yes, I know, cool huh? I go home, Frontline her, put her name tag on the new collar, put it on her...

The next morning I see her and she's naked! She's gone and slipped it.

So down the street I go to get her another new collar and to the locksmiths to order a new name tag.

She'd better not do it again.

Has anybody ever used PLONE to create an intranet? We're switching to it and it is my job to make a user-friendly intranet for the company.

Any pointers?

YIPPEE! I got my free $900 from the government yesterday.

I went out today and bought a $2000 mattress!! But they gave it to me for $1850 and free delivery. Which is really only $950 because the government gave me freeee money *dance*

My old mattress was so hard and with my bad back I really needed something really good. I lay down in the one and just went "ooooooooooooooooooooo, me have this *snore*"

I don't get it until Monday though - and only then if they can get through the roadworks that are blocking my street to get to my house. But still... it's MINE.

THE EVILS OF E-MAIL!

I just got this sentence in an e-mail from an employment consultant we were working with:

"Would you have you any feedback for the my candidates that I have sent over yet?"

Yes, I know. Not only is it not proofread for completely obvious mistakes but its completely around the wrong way anyway!!

*hides under desk from the stupid people*

Oh. My. Giddy. Aunt. I AM SO BORED!!!

I told my boss today that I was so bored and dispondent LOL!!! Not just the boss, but the boss boss, the boss of the bosses. Probably not the kind of thing you tell to your boss but we get on pretty well. He asked me what I'd prefer to do that wouldn't be boring and I said nothing at the moment because I'm braindead and morose. Ask me again next week.

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Most awesomest song at the moment: Beirut - Elephant Gun

OH NOES! My kitty has feline acne! At least I'm 98% sure that's what it is based on what I've read on the internetz.

We are going to the nice lady vet on Saturday.


In other countdown news (I'm listening to The Final Countdown!!):

My mummy will be home in 24 hours and 10 minutes!!!!!

Stupid LJ deleted my Sassy Cat icon when I lost my paid account :(

Does anybody have "Brand New Emperor's Clothes" by James Reyne?

*sigh* Work sucks. I'm hear by myself taking the phonecalls from all 4 offices, while also trying to do my own work. Really need a day off - bring on the long weekend and my 4 days off after it!

Got the Implanon implanted yesterday. My arm is still all wrapped up. Pinches ouchily when I move too much. I'm been taking Metformin for my poor liver, trying to eat up the extra insulin, but it makes my tummy hurt! :(

2 more sleeps until my mummy comes home!!! *dance* That's only 1 more sleep until there's only 1 more sleep until my mummy comes home!!!! *dance*

I need more musics for my iPod. I went through and emptied it of all the boring stuff that I was over and now it is only half full. Maybe can spend my $900 from the government on iTunes...

Well, I have a sick liver, my insulin levels are 40 (healthy limit is 14), my cholestorol is 5.5, my BMI is 45 and my BP is still 130/100 on the medication. My 'crap back' has been technically upgraded to 'chronic back pain due to osteo-arthritis' and I'm too young for all of it! On the up side, my thyroid works fine, my blood sugars are normal and my kidneys are in dandy shape.

Shoot me? Right here, see where I'm pointing? Yeah, there.

The cough is from the BP medication. "Classic Coversyl cough". Can't do anything about it but I hope to be off the medication in a couple of weeks.

So, I'm on these tablets that I have to take whenever I eat anything, to try and eat up the insulin, give my poor liver a bit of a break from trying to process it all, and hopefully kick start a bit of a weight loss. Yes, the insulin was holding tight to any sugar it could find and not letting it go, hence no joy with the weight loss and being tired and irritable all the time. Its a short term thing, sort of a detox. A couple of months only.

I have to visit the dietitian as well. My experience with dietitians is that they all say "eat more fish" to which my reply would be "sure, if you want to condone bulimia". Yes, I'm allergic to all seafood/fish/shellfish.

I miss my mummy. She will be home in 10 more sleeps for 10 whole days. But I want her now!

Ugh. Got some kind of coughing bug. You know when you cough for so long and so hard that it hits your gag reflexes and you wanna throw up? Yep, got that. I think I've swilled a whole bottle of cough medicine in 3 days. Maybe that's why my head is so light and woozy...

Hmm, methinks I'm coming down with something. Stupid work. I'm obviously allergic to it. I never got sick before I got a job. I think I should be compensated.

*grumble* And its only 10:55 - I still have more than 5 and a half hours of this!

I'm up to The Captain's Hand in my BSG marathon. I've seen all the season 2 eps a couple of time but I've only seen season 3 once and on squinty vision, so looking forward to that. Hopefully all of season 4 will be out by the time I get up to that. I think my favourite so far is still Flight of the Phoenix, because Chief is da awesomeness.

RAH, stupid phone keeps ringing.

My computer is working much faster now, thank you!!

Its funny because my work computer (this one) is pretty much the same only 2.7 instead of 2.5 and it runs like Cathy Freeman - can run AutoCAD and Civil3D and all sorts of memory-hungry software. Anyway, home computer is being much more friendly. I've yet to try out Sims 2, will do that some time.

Only 17 more sleeps until my mummy comes home for a visit at Easter!

My head feels empty... like there's nothing in it. Wonder what that means.

Help, computer people!!

Okay, my computer, which is about 3 years old now, it\s starting to piss me off when I play games on it.

Games I play: The Sims 2, Horsez. When I play them, they are or can be extremely slow to react to my controls, choppy graphics sometimes - when it goes from day to night in The Sims it can take nearly 10 minutes!!

So, my question is: Is this a RAM issue or a processor issue? Or alternatively, a graphics problem? RAM is easy fixed, the other two pretty much mean "deal with it!"

My computer is a charming Dell desktop - Intel Celeron 2.53GHz and 1GB RAM. I have no idea what my graphics driver is but its the stock standard one that came with the pooter.

I've been all obsessive about horses again lately. I guess it comes in phases. There's no way I could ride with my stupid spine and sciatica the way they are.

Anyway, the girl I work with is really into the local riding club and invited me to come along on the weekends to the dressage days so I can be a penciller (that means sitting next to the judge and writing down what they say as the horse and rider goes around the ring). I've been to one already and just watched to learn the ropes, the sorts of things that the judges say. Its only on one, maybe two weekends a month but it gives me something to do! And I get to see all the beautiful horsies!!

Just had about a million litres of blood drawn at pathology. Vampires!! Evil vampires. Actually, she was very nice and said I have lovely veins, that she was spoiled for choice...

I've been battling with high blood pressure for a few months and they think its the Pill I'm on, but checking all the other stuff too. So I'm going to go off the Pill and have Implanon implanted... yikes, huh? A stick in my arm for 3 years. But if it means no medication, I'm happy enough. My bank account will be too :)