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Quick list:
1. Mass paper airplane fights in clubs are fun. Even more fun when the bouncer decides that the best way to control procedings is to create a four foot long paper airplane of his very own to chuck in the general direction of everybody.
(The fact that a dog was let loose in the club this week and effectively destroyed the potential paper-airplaneness of all the flyers by means of slobber and big muddy pawprints may be merely conicidence, or some kind of precautionary pre-battle counterstrike on behalf of the management (or indeed just the dog))
2. Kris did a fine job of his first ever DJ set (and there were lots of us out there who believe there aren't enough comedy choons played at goth clubs :-b) The monkey, as ever, was a complete camera whore.
3. Job hunting is a full time job. I am hunting for a part time job. This has left me in the strange position of potentially having far more time to do things once I am working...
Speaking of which, went for an interview today at the council for a data-admin post. In my application form I greatly talked up my abilities at Access, based on the fact that I have used it a lot in the past and have plenty of stuff to read up on it. However, by the time it got to last night I was mightily nervous as I haven't actually practiced the stuff this week, just read about it, and wasn't feeling very confident. At which point someone came out with the immortal line: "Don't worry, it's not as if they're going to sit you in front of a computer and make you take an exam"
So I arrive at the interview and the first thing I'm told is "OK, first you can take the Access exam, then we'll have the actual interview!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I think I managed to partially fuck it up (used the wrong reference number for one batch of data and only realised too late, didn't create any proper forms or reports or notes to go with it, and never even started the Excel test which was using the data to make pretty graphs) But on the other hand the database I created was an intelligent one (using seperate related tables for properties and people, putting in additional fields that the information that weren't needed for those specific records but could be, and could potentially wreck the whole thing if not considered) so I'm hoping that other people might have made functional but clumsy databases and they'll appreciate that even if I'm out of practice I do know what I'm doing. Not least cos I have the feeling that the information provided was actually inteded to show who knew what they were doing as oposed to just blindly imputting everything. I hope.
(And I was even going to practise some today before I went for the interview. And I came to the mature decision that that would just get me increasingly more nervous and that I'd be better off just sitting down with a good book for an hour or so and chilling out *kicks self repeatedly*)
The interview itself went exceedingly well as far as I could tell (There were a few places where I could see they were out to trip you up (eg Q: Who would you say are the Asylum Seeker and Refugee Departments clients? A: Everyone in the city (cos it's not just the Asylum people themselves, it's the taxpayers and the professionals who deal with them and the people that already live here and are part of the community they'll be joining too) and stuff like that) And the guy kept saying "excellent, excellent" under his breath, which either means that he thought I was good or he had an audition for the part of Mr Burns in an am-dram Simpsons stage production after work...
Anyway, interview good, practical exam badly fluffed but intelligently approached. So I may be lucky, I may not. The good thing is though at least my worst fear didn't come to pass. I was really really frightened last night that I'd find the whole thing completely out of my league and not only not get this job but know that there was absolutely no point applying for any kind of similar job and having to go away and start again. Whereas now I feel quite confident (cross fingers cross toes cross eyes cross nose) that even if I'm unsuccessful this time round, I'd have a damn good chance next time. Specially if I get a bit more practice in on Access. Which is nice.
Oh yes, and I lost another pound. Well, I had on Friday anyway. What a weekend of beer and wading through vast amounts of comfort food when I was in pre-interview stress-out mode last night has done to that I don't know. But I had lots of people tell me I was looking thinner last night, which was cool :-)
Anyway, I am now awarding myself the rest of the day off for good behaviour. To be followed the rest of this week by lots and lots of creative stuff, sending off a few more job applications just in case, and trying to decide the whens and hows of fitting in both Whitby visitation and parental arrivals at the weekend...
1. Mass paper airplane fights in clubs are fun. Even more fun when the bouncer decides that the best way to control procedings is to create a four foot long paper airplane of his very own to chuck in the general direction of everybody.
(The fact that a dog was let loose in the club this week and effectively destroyed the potential paper-airplaneness of all the flyers by means of slobber and big muddy pawprints may be merely conicidence, or some kind of precautionary pre-battle counterstrike on behalf of the management (or indeed just the dog))
2. Kris did a fine job of his first ever DJ set (and there were lots of us out there who believe there aren't enough comedy choons played at goth clubs :-b) The monkey, as ever, was a complete camera whore.
3. Job hunting is a full time job. I am hunting for a part time job. This has left me in the strange position of potentially having far more time to do things once I am working...
Speaking of which, went for an interview today at the council for a data-admin post. In my application form I greatly talked up my abilities at Access, based on the fact that I have used it a lot in the past and have plenty of stuff to read up on it. However, by the time it got to last night I was mightily nervous as I haven't actually practiced the stuff this week, just read about it, and wasn't feeling very confident. At which point someone came out with the immortal line: "Don't worry, it's not as if they're going to sit you in front of a computer and make you take an exam"
So I arrive at the interview and the first thing I'm told is "OK, first you can take the Access exam, then we'll have the actual interview!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
I think I managed to partially fuck it up (used the wrong reference number for one batch of data and only realised too late, didn't create any proper forms or reports or notes to go with it, and never even started the Excel test which was using the data to make pretty graphs) But on the other hand the database I created was an intelligent one (using seperate related tables for properties and people, putting in additional fields that the information that weren't needed for those specific records but could be, and could potentially wreck the whole thing if not considered) so I'm hoping that other people might have made functional but clumsy databases and they'll appreciate that even if I'm out of practice I do know what I'm doing. Not least cos I have the feeling that the information provided was actually inteded to show who knew what they were doing as oposed to just blindly imputting everything. I hope.
(And I was even going to practise some today before I went for the interview. And I came to the mature decision that that would just get me increasingly more nervous and that I'd be better off just sitting down with a good book for an hour or so and chilling out *kicks self repeatedly*)
The interview itself went exceedingly well as far as I could tell (There were a few places where I could see they were out to trip you up (eg Q: Who would you say are the Asylum Seeker and Refugee Departments clients? A: Everyone in the city (cos it's not just the Asylum people themselves, it's the taxpayers and the professionals who deal with them and the people that already live here and are part of the community they'll be joining too) and stuff like that) And the guy kept saying "excellent, excellent" under his breath, which either means that he thought I was good or he had an audition for the part of Mr Burns in an am-dram Simpsons stage production after work...
Anyway, interview good, practical exam badly fluffed but intelligently approached. So I may be lucky, I may not. The good thing is though at least my worst fear didn't come to pass. I was really really frightened last night that I'd find the whole thing completely out of my league and not only not get this job but know that there was absolutely no point applying for any kind of similar job and having to go away and start again. Whereas now I feel quite confident (cross fingers cross toes cross eyes cross nose) that even if I'm unsuccessful this time round, I'd have a damn good chance next time. Specially if I get a bit more practice in on Access. Which is nice.
Oh yes, and I lost another pound. Well, I had on Friday anyway. What a weekend of beer and wading through vast amounts of comfort food when I was in pre-interview stress-out mode last night has done to that I don't know. But I had lots of people tell me I was looking thinner last night, which was cool :-)
Anyway, I am now awarding myself the rest of the day off for good behaviour. To be followed the rest of this week by lots and lots of creative stuff, sending off a few more job applications just in case, and trying to decide the whens and hows of fitting in both Whitby visitation and parental arrivals at the weekend...
