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"Everything's coming up rosy and grey..."
Feb. 23rd, 2003 10:03 amWow, it's been a whole few days since I updated. You'd think I was on Walkabout again, wouldn't you? *grins*
Life has been busy, and therefore happy. Happiness is active, after all, which is why I havne't been sitting around updating my journal - I've been out and about. The lurghi has been pretty much defeated, although the souvenier coldsore is not appreciated. So I'll be back onto the bike and back at training this week, which is just as well, considering we have a demonstration at the Uni this week. I'm using my March RDO (rostered day off) to attend - Thursday, 12-12.30, somewhere around the University, if any Melbourne LJ-ers want to see me get my arse kicked. *grins* Actually, they usually get me to throw the guys around to encourage the female membership - itty bitty deathpixie "defeating" two or three Manly Men. As staged as a WWF bout, but still a lot of fun. Possibly for the same reasons people find WWF fun. ;)
I also got a call on Thursday from the Bereau of Emergency Services about my application I put in two weeks ago - I have an interview on Monday at 4pm. And this time I'm going to be prepared, since I was a bit rusty on interview procedure with the last one and had to fudge it. And no,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
philf, no pub tonight. We are not repeating last week's effort. ;) This job's got the potential to be a bit more interesting than the court job, and it's in the city centre, too, so the travelling isn't as much. And it earns $6000 a year more than I do at the moment, which, I can tell you, would be wonderfully handy right now.
Friday... hmm, casual day, my first day on the front desk and the BatPhone (we have a hotline for enquiries that the counter person has to answer), and an optometry appointment to get new contact lenses since I'm on the last few days of my last set. I'm testing out a new type - cheaper than the others, although I have to take them out every night. So far, so good - no problems, no itching or redness. Also Friday was dinner with the Maelstrom Plus One - Mouse Carcass is down from Sydney, and lo there was pizza and reading of comics and watching of anime. *chuckles* And somehow I managed to make sense of Adolescence of Utena... sort of. Talk about layers of metaphor... And we've all developed a fear of car washes. *grins*
Saturday was Mother-Daughter Day. Mum came down for a visit, bringing my box of books from Canada with her (yay, Callahan's! And my Lonely Planet Guides, so I can finish my Walkabout posts!). We had lunch at the Soul Train (the place of the wonderful food and $7.50 Cosmos), spent the afternoon at the zoo (kind of a thing we do, about every ten years *grins*), and then had dinner at Singh's, the Indian place around the corner. Wonderful food, great hot vegetarian vindaloo, and a very nice bottle of red - Oxford Landing Merlot, 1991. And a lot of talking. It's great when we can do that, because while I'm my father's daughter through and through, Mum and I have a good rapport these days. And she's always glad to see I'm happy.
I'm off in a few minutes to catch up with the Maelstrom again and inflict Walkabout photos on them - I've collected them in an album for public viewing now, so lots of people will have to suffer through them. ;)
And the grey bit? It rained! Thursday night, all Friday, and early Saturday morning. I walked from the tram to work on Friday with the hood of my raincoat off just to get the feel of rain on my face again - it's been a long, long time. It's all gone now - brilliant sunshine and high temperatures today - but it's a start. Now we just need a couple of weeks' worth, and the drought will be well and truly broken.
Life has been busy, and therefore happy. Happiness is active, after all, which is why I havne't been sitting around updating my journal - I've been out and about. The lurghi has been pretty much defeated, although the souvenier coldsore is not appreciated. So I'll be back onto the bike and back at training this week, which is just as well, considering we have a demonstration at the Uni this week. I'm using my March RDO (rostered day off) to attend - Thursday, 12-12.30, somewhere around the University, if any Melbourne LJ-ers want to see me get my arse kicked. *grins* Actually, they usually get me to throw the guys around to encourage the female membership - itty bitty deathpixie "defeating" two or three Manly Men. As staged as a WWF bout, but still a lot of fun. Possibly for the same reasons people find WWF fun. ;)
I also got a call on Thursday from the Bereau of Emergency Services about my application I put in two weeks ago - I have an interview on Monday at 4pm. And this time I'm going to be prepared, since I was a bit rusty on interview procedure with the last one and had to fudge it. And no,
philf, no pub tonight. We are not repeating last week's effort. ;) This job's got the potential to be a bit more interesting than the court job, and it's in the city centre, too, so the travelling isn't as much. And it earns $6000 a year more than I do at the moment, which, I can tell you, would be wonderfully handy right now.Friday... hmm, casual day, my first day on the front desk and the BatPhone (we have a hotline for enquiries that the counter person has to answer), and an optometry appointment to get new contact lenses since I'm on the last few days of my last set. I'm testing out a new type - cheaper than the others, although I have to take them out every night. So far, so good - no problems, no itching or redness. Also Friday was dinner with the Maelstrom Plus One - Mouse Carcass is down from Sydney, and lo there was pizza and reading of comics and watching of anime. *chuckles* And somehow I managed to make sense of Adolescence of Utena... sort of. Talk about layers of metaphor... And we've all developed a fear of car washes. *grins*
Saturday was Mother-Daughter Day. Mum came down for a visit, bringing my box of books from Canada with her (yay, Callahan's! And my Lonely Planet Guides, so I can finish my Walkabout posts!). We had lunch at the Soul Train (the place of the wonderful food and $7.50 Cosmos), spent the afternoon at the zoo (kind of a thing we do, about every ten years *grins*), and then had dinner at Singh's, the Indian place around the corner. Wonderful food, great hot vegetarian vindaloo, and a very nice bottle of red - Oxford Landing Merlot, 1991. And a lot of talking. It's great when we can do that, because while I'm my father's daughter through and through, Mum and I have a good rapport these days. And she's always glad to see I'm happy.
I'm off in a few minutes to catch up with the Maelstrom again and inflict Walkabout photos on them - I've collected them in an album for public viewing now, so lots of people will have to suffer through them. ;)
And the grey bit? It rained! Thursday night, all Friday, and early Saturday morning. I walked from the tram to work on Friday with the hood of my raincoat off just to get the feel of rain on my face again - it's been a long, long time. It's all gone now - brilliant sunshine and high temperatures today - but it's a start. Now we just need a couple of weeks' worth, and the drought will be well and truly broken.
