mini post

Two quick things to share. Actually more like three.

1. I'm finding I have a slight addiction to playing WordFeud on my smartphone (scrabble type game). I've anyone cares to join me just search for Hawm. My spelling may be atrocious, but my vocabulary (and multitude of dictionaries) make up for it.
2. I just read The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss in 3 days. Get yourself a copy of The Name of the Wind first, and then read them both.
3. This is an example of why Miss R and I are well suited. I'd still rather have my own castle (and not live in an earthquake prone area), but still very cool.

That is all :)

Uni break

I have done very little this past week. Other than work I’ve left the house to go out to dinner a few times (once with the in-laws, and the other to a friend’s place), to the blood bank (got my special 100 donations pin last time), and to the book sale at the showgrounds. 

Not terribly riveting stuff, but that’s the speed I’m happy with for the moment. There have been the extra shifts at work, which are always nice. There have been more resignations at work too, so I imagine that will also mean more work. Ms M got the uni job we both interviewed for. I haven’t seen her, or had a chance to congratulate her yet. I’m glad she got it, even though it means I have to keep job hunting.

Now that I no longer have assignments I’ve been spending less time on my laptop. The few times I do get on I play Oblivion for a few hours and then turn it off. As much as I love my laptop I’m enjoying not being tethered to it.

While I hate the idea of any bookstore closing (even as much as I have good reason to hate A&R), I will admit that I profited from their death throes sale. Twenty books later and I’ve got plenty to read. When you include in the last lot of items I liberated from the withdrawn bin I’ve got a lot of cataloguing to do.

Most importantly I have time for baking again. I’m thinking about a chocolate brownie cheesecake on Monday. Will have to see how I feel after we’ve hit the art galleries. Heide have an exhibition of Albert Tucker’s Images of Modern Evil series, and Miss R has been bugging me about their Colour Bazaar since February. Fingers crossed it won’t rain on us while we are outside. I can live with the cold, but cold and wet is rarely fun :)

Interview post-mortem

Got the phone call today. I did not get the job. They loved my application, and I (apparently) interviewed very well, I just didn’t sell myself as strongly as the person who got the job. That was the extent of the feedback. 

I’ll check in with Ms M tomorrow. She had an interview for the same position. I hope she  at least got it. I can live with that. :)