I can haz driving licence y/y?

For the curious, I passed my test and now have a Nova Scotia driver’s licence
After worrying, stressing, and ending up at the stage of being ready to throw-up by the time the examiner came to my car, it turned out to be much easier than I thought. In fact, he just had me [...]

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Job offer

The job that I interviewed for last week has made me an offer. The salary is less than I’d hoped for and the holiday is the statutory minimum, but the benefits are good and they have a company pension.
They’re emailing me the contract so that I can review it before saying yes.
It’s a job that [...]

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Sleepy AG is sleepy

Revising data management and information architecture for my interview tomorrow.
Just took unexpected nap.
Help!
Sleepy kitties on my lap make it impossible to get up for strong coffee but I really should *sigh*

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Interview and kittens

I have an interview! For a job that I might actually stand some hope of being able to know things about. It will be at 1.30pm on Thursday so crossed fingers would be good.
In other news, Annie has discovered the tumble-dryer. It is a warm and new place.
Kate has discovered that the cupboard where I [...]

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Interview progress and kitten update

Well, first of all I am fairly confident that I didn’t get the job but it was good experience. Not least because the guy asked me ‘what is normalisation and how is it achieved’ and I went totally blank. So I now know that in addition to revising all those typical interview questions, I need [...]

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In which I give birthday wishes and flail

A day late (although it sounds like you’d have preferred the big day to be today), but…
Happy Birthday hhertzof! Hope today brings lots of lovely things and is a big improvement on yesterday. Although it sounds like it ended well and I do like your new bunny
I am not certain at all that [...]

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Interview!

I have a job interview on Wednesday!
I’m not sure whether I’ll take the job, but it’s good practise and they might be able to talk me into it. The company provides call centre ’solutions’ that aren’t outsources to India, which is nice, and the job would be developing and maintaining the software that they provide [...]

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Um, job application?

So, I have just applied for a job. My first job in Canada.
Despite all my plans, it is not a contract job. However, it is not a retail job so one of my criteria is met.
It’s for one of the local universities as a ‘technologist’, for which read report writer working with cool toys.
Wibble?
It’s highly [...]

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Sun, sea, sand and Atlantis (but one of them is a lie)

I discovered last night that there is a place in my TV thingy where I can catch up on all the Atlantis S5 that has been shown so far. This makes me so, so super happy because now I can join in the squee
As it is raining like woah right now, I’m thinking [...]

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