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Wednesday, March 18, 2009 10:03:08 PM
Went to girlfriends. Went shopping. Went to the zoo on Sunday.
We went to the Cotswold Wildlife Park. It's the first zoo I've ever been to which you can take your dog too, and we went round with her dog, a boxer called Dana. My favourite exhibit was the meerkats - I've never seen an actual meerkat before, but they are totally adorable. For further information see here:
Right here.
Monday was a chilled out morning followed by an interview for this company in the afternoon. The interview went OK but was a pointless exercise: the frakking recruitment consultant had sent me to a job which I wasn't even elligible for, doubly annoying becuase I went to great lengths to check that I was eligible - the company are a defence contractor (they make the radios which British soldiers carry). I can't work in defence because I haven't lived in the UK long enough. So that was a day wasted.
But at work on Tuesday there was some good news: the one project which most made me want to leave has been cancelled. Well, technically, not cancelled, but transferred to another part of the company. I was so pissed off with the project because the engineering just seemed so... not bad, more half-witted. Presumably they've found some better engineers elsewhere to fix it.
THEN a couple of hours later I had a phone call from another company. I'd sent them my CV once already, and they'd already said "thanks but no thanks". They called out of the blue with another position, which sounded cooler. So that's good. As ever I have no idea what the future holds for me, but really, who gives a fuck? I think it you can keep your designs flexible enough you are good for most things. If my colleagues felt the same then that project wouldn't have been canned.
Dana at the zoo. I went back to my woman's house on Monday, and stayed a bit late. We had one of those frank, open conversations which can change the way you see someone if you have it with the wrong person. Luckily, I'm the right person, so things are still good.
We went to the Cotswold Wildlife Park. It's the first zoo I've ever been to which you can take your dog too, and we went round with her dog, a boxer called Dana. My favourite exhibit was the meerkats - I've never seen an actual meerkat before, but they are totally adorable. For further information see here:
Right here.
Monday was a chilled out morning followed by an interview for this company in the afternoon. The interview went OK but was a pointless exercise: the frakking recruitment consultant had sent me to a job which I wasn't even elligible for, doubly annoying becuase I went to great lengths to check that I was eligible - the company are a defence contractor (they make the radios which British soldiers carry). I can't work in defence because I haven't lived in the UK long enough. So that was a day wasted.
But at work on Tuesday there was some good news: the one project which most made me want to leave has been cancelled. Well, technically, not cancelled, but transferred to another part of the company. I was so pissed off with the project because the engineering just seemed so... not bad, more half-witted. Presumably they've found some better engineers elsewhere to fix it.
THEN a couple of hours later I had a phone call from another company. I'd sent them my CV once already, and they'd already said "thanks but no thanks". They called out of the blue with another position, which sounded cooler. So that's good. As ever I have no idea what the future holds for me, but really, who gives a fuck? I think it you can keep your designs flexible enough you are good for most things. If my colleagues felt the same then that project wouldn't have been canned.
Dana at the zoo. I went back to my woman's house on Monday, and stayed a bit late. We had one of those frank, open conversations which can change the way you see someone if you have it with the wrong person. Luckily, I'm the right person, so things are still good.
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