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There should be no bitterness, only gratitude because while we are waiting for rain to stop there are interesting things for us in the making. If all fails then there are always puzzles to do. (see happy room). http://www.jigzone.com/puzzles/daily-jigsaw |
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« Reply #2491 on: 15:48:11, 18-07-2007 » |
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I'm applying for jobs which is making me even more grumpy.
Trying not to be bitter.
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« Reply #2492 on: 16:36:47, 18-07-2007 » |
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I'm applying for jobs which is making me even more grumpy.
Trying not to be bitter.
I assume you're a young man, hh. Wait until you're older! I find now that when I apply for a job, I have to account for everywhere I've been and everything I've done since I was 16: where I was, why I went there, why I left, what the pay was (I can seldom remember so I guess). |
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« Reply #2493 on: 17:58:54, 18-07-2007 » |
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Tony, when someone askes you how much you used to earn in a previous job, just say "not enough that's why I left"
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"as the housefly of destiny collides with the windscreen of fate..."
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« Reply #2494 on: 00:59:42, 19-07-2007 » |
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OK, applied for two jobs today, will deal with another over the weekend.
A fourth has just come over the horizon but I'm not sure that's even a possibility...
I've been feeling down today. Overall, melancholy has been sitting on my shoulder for quite some time now. Since after I finished the PhD actually.
If I could sing the blues, I would be singing them. As it is I've been rather relying on books and the piano.
Must get out and meet some corporeally present human beings tomorrow. Today my human contact has been on the phone and a brief exchange with a woman at the sorting office.
And it's rained so depressingly today.
Hard and with thunder.
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« Reply #2495 on: 01:13:16, 19-07-2007 » |
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Going cap in hand for a job to earn a living can be a soul-destroying and humiliating business, but never forget that you were born sensitive, intelligent and musically talented - rare gifts that no one can take away from you, whatever happens. And never forget that whoever makes the appointments doesn't always make the right decisions. They're only human too.
I assume that you have finished your PhD and are confident that it will be awarded in the near future. That is something you will always look back on with pride and satisfaction.
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« Reply #2496 on: 01:22:59, 19-07-2007 » |
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You know where I am, if you fancy a visit out of the North East for human interaction over the next month pop down and you can stay at mine. We'll drink a bit, talk a lot and listen to my new Klaus Huber CD. You're very welcome...
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« Reply #2497 on: 01:25:32, 19-07-2007 » |
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Thanks Tony.
The wrestling with the application form is a bit of a trial but I quite enjoy it when it comes down to it.
And after all, I don't expect people to just give me a job.
Ta Biroc. I'm living a week (sometimes a day) at a time at the moment, but I may well be in touch!
I've managed to procrastinate myself into the early hours again.
Got to get to the Post Office to send off a job application, get into town to pick up some microphones and then maybe I'll get to go shopping.
Now I feel a bit peckish and won't sleep until I've eaten something so I shall bid you all adieu.
Pleasant dreams.
PS Might pop into the uni library and pick up some CDs: was thinking the Tippett 3rd Symphony (talking about singing the blues), the Zemlinsky Lyric symphony and maybe a bit more Stockhausen. Might also take out the score for Tippett's 1st piano sonata which is always good for a sight-read.
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« Reply #2498 on: 11:30:54, 19-07-2007 » |
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my new Klaus Huber CD Which one would that be, Biroc? I've just acquired two, funnily enough: an old Wergo one (a violin concerto with a name that I can't remember, but it has dot-dot-dots in it), and a brand new choral Huber-and-Gesualdo one which I don't think is out yet! hh - definitely Tippett 3! Yes!! |
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« Reply #2499 on: 17:13:50, 19-07-2007 » |
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Overall, melancholy has been sitting on my shoulder for quite some time now. Since after I finished the PhD actually.
Ah well; you've gotten further than me anyway; I'm only a year in and frankly have been losing all motivation to do anything at some constant rate since I started, and it's been seeming more and more like I'll be on the job market myself before long (though I wouldn't yet judge it "likely"). You end up getting some social interactions today? Got a really nice slice of rhubarb, hazelnut, and cinnamon pie today. Really works well. Quite sugary. But still. |
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« Reply #2500 on: 22:13:30, 19-07-2007 » |
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Time for my yearly eye test. I'm with a bog-standard, high street optician chain which everyone will know. They charge £20 or something for the test, then a monthly charge for regular supplies of, in my case, contact lenses. Yearly bill? Something like £200. Fine. Except that I was chatting to a dentist friend the other day, who had in turn been chatting to an optician who 'owns' a branch of said opticians. Apparently, not one product sold to you, or me, costs any more than £1 to manufacture, and yet we spend £50-100+ on these things. So, you ask for super-dooper, tinted, climate-sensitive, wear-for-a-decade, scented contacts, replete with bells and whistles and the ability at the stroke of a lash to make you look like Michael Jackson in the Thriller video; pay through the nose, feel smug - and then discover that there was a 300% mark-up. The owner in question earns - wait for it - £800K pa. Am I being naive, or does this does seem an extreme case of consumer extortion...  |
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« Reply #2501 on: 22:26:57, 19-07-2007 » |
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Eye tests in Scotland: free.
Except when on treks, swimming, diving or anything else with a risk of losing contacts, I use bog-standard gas permeables, which cost me about £80 a pair, and often last two or three years. Fluids cost a bit more, of course, but I'm not letting them make any more out of me than I can help.
It's market forces, martle: opticians, dentists, plumbers all make a fortune nowadays. And if you can manage to persuade the media that you'll increase their revenue, then you'll make even more. The commercial world, I'm afraid, green one. Not my favourite place either.
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« Reply #2502 on: 22:50:56, 19-07-2007 » |
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Thanks Ron. But 300%?? Mutter, grumble, grump.  |
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I'm very suspicious of the whole 'optician' business. What does this remind you of? You are lured off the street into a darkened room where a fragrant and attractive young woman flashes lights at you, gazes deep into your eyes and makes you recite strange and apparently meaningless runes. While thus lulled and receptive you are persuaded into trying 'just a very low strength' dose of what they sell. Mmmm! It gives you a temporary good feeling. A bit of a high. And then after a while you feel the need for more, a stronger dose, before you can get the same good feeling out of it: apparent clarity of vision, strangely bright colours, the delusion of understanding the world better. And so it goes on. Once they have got you hooked, higher and higher doses, extra thrills offered like 'varifocals', all to feed the addiction. And you pay out more and more.....
Bluddy sinister if you ask me. Why is it allowed? It certainly shouldn't be permitted in pubs and restaurants.
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« Reply #2504 on: 23:02:23, 19-07-2007 » |
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'Nice to see you, to see you.... nice'
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