Today's the day

Got my interview for the CDPP position today. At 4.45pm, so it's probably early to be getting nervous.

Tell that to the butterflies in my stomach. Although that could be the muslei bar I had for breakfast.

I saw Dave Gorman with Phil and his mate last night. Absolutely hysterical - I literally laughed until I cried. I'm now getting itchy travelling feet again - he was talking about his Googlewhack-inspired journies. And being the happy little experience sponge I am, I want to do something like that now - find a really amusing and bizarre travelling game that will take me all over the world at random. Of course, that means I'd have to find someone to give me lots of money for the project, which I doubt will happen. And I can't grow a beard.

(sorry, in-joke. Dave was talking about how he grew a beard so people would take him seriously and that's how he got advance money from a publisher, and that's how he ended up travelling the world meeting people he'd found with Googlewhacking. Because he was procrastinating.)

Googlewhacking, btw, is where you put two completely unrelated words into Google, and come up with only one match. I can see Google getting used later. *grins*

Two other bits of news: one, I'm on the working party involved in revamping the Department's intranet and Internet pages. Which means some new skills for me. Two, I was apparently on Today Tonight last night, having been accosted by a camera crew on my way back from lunch last night. Oh the shame, appearing on one of those moronic commercial-station 'current affairs' programs. Although apparently my "No War" badge was very prominent. *chees*

Okay, better go do some work. Have a good one, all.

Buffy Emergency

Did anyone from the Melbourne Maelstrom tape last night's Buffy episode? 'Cause I clean forgot to, and if it's the one where we find out what happened to Giles and I've missed it completely, I will not be happy.

So, can anyone (that's not from the US or Canada, 'cause I can't afford to get tapes converted) help me out here?

Well, that's done.

So, I've had my interview and a very long relaxing bath. I feel better now.

Actually, the interview went pretty well. The people were friendly, the office space was pretty good (the 23rd floor of a building in Queen Street, just around the corner from where I am now), with lots of natural/incandescent light (PERIN has nothing but florescents, and I'm sure it's partly behind why I'm so tired lately), and the work sounds actually interesting - they assign one Legal Admin person (that would be me) to three lawyers working for the federal prosecutors. And it seems like there might be research involved too - wow, actually using my tertiary education, what a novel concept! As far as I know, the interview itself went well too - I was friendly but professional, knowledgeable but not stiff. And I'm pretty sure I impressed them.

There are two positions. I find out in two to three weeks. I'm guessing three, with Easter this weekend.

The pay at entry level isn't a whole lot different to what I'm earning now (but I dont' think they'd put me on that, mainly because of my previous training), but even if they don't put me on higher, I'm tempted to take it if it's offered. The idea of somewhere away from the malaise that is Magistrates' courts, the chance to do something different... Yeah, it's tempting. Although I'm possibly counting small fuzzy avians before their emergence.

Man, I hate this whole job-seeking process. My shoulders are just a mass of knots now, even after the bath (although they are better - scary, huh?). Oh for a live-in massuse...