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Aug. 12th, 2009 11:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magictreehouseI had dream last night where I bumped into Heather Small in the street and made her sing. I also dreamt that I used to live with Alan Carr in Manchester and reminiscing about with him including remembering the hilarious tale about how we were digging up the garden and found a massive pineapple there. Yes, as if I needed an reassurance that my head is not right I have the proof right there. I'm debating whether to go back the doctors actually as my 'illess' has moved on to involve back ache, pressure in my head and light-headedness. It's doing my head in!
I have joined the dark side! Yes, I have opened a twitter account. It's kind of an experiment really as I've given it a good slagging off in the past. However, I am quite enjoying it. It by no means replaces blogs or any other web 2.0 applications (and it shouldn't either, the internet is already making our attention spans shorter as it is), but it certainly makes more sense when you join it. From the outside it's impossible to navigate but if you join it's almost like having an MSN conversation with people except that you can see lots of conversations going on at the same time, as well as little thoughts. Plus, I can talk at celebrities in the vain that they might notice me. It's by no means the second coming like the Guardian bang on about though. So yeah, if anyone wants to add me then feel free. I'm magic_treehouse. Finding people to follow is a task though!
I was out Friday with people from James' work. I was feeling fine and was in good spirits and it was a great night all told. We started off at The Palace for food. Proper summer weather too. People seemed to be doing that annoying thing of 'moving on' though when we were perfectly happy with The Palace itself, plus, Revolution's drinks prices were about three times as much. Annoying. Still it was a laugh. I ended the night walking home with Vicky who'd took a chance with one of her free under-26s theatre tickets and ended up seeing a play involving a man with a massive penis chasing nymphs. At least she didn't pay for the privilege. We want to arrange tickets to go and see the Dracula ballet and Dial M for Murder. Good stuff.
We had a fairly quiet weekend. In fact, I can't remember anything we did apart from go and eat at the Museum cafe (always nice). Oh, we did watch Single White Female which, although it was a little slow to get going, was actually very good. Once it actually morphed into a thriller it was very good. I'll never look at stilettos in the same way again! Alas, there was far too much unecessary boobage for my liking.
On Monday evening we went out to Aagrah for a curry. Despite it being a little too close to my work place it was a lovely meal, I highly recommend it. I had a weird curry with lychees in it! Lovely though.
Yesterday I had my interview at Halifax library. Despite me having a useless map and going the wrong way to get there, I made it on time on account of a friendly elderly man helping me. The interview went really actually. We talked about all kinds of things; helping the elderly to learn computer skills, web 2.0, all kinds of things. There weren't any questions I couldn't answer. In fact, for some of the questions I had loads of evidence so I might have gone on a bit. It's better than the alternative. There's also the chance that the job might come out as being paid than it looks as it's under job evaluation. However, they had 80 applicants for the post and are interviewing for three days so my chances of getting it are slim whatever so I can't get my hopes up really. Especially as I've just seen what my current pay increase takes my wage up to. Over 20k! I'm only 0.8 though so I'm now on over 16K. Great stuff. I never realised that 5% would be so much. Can't get too attached to it though!
And that brings me up to date I think :D Oh, and the Frankmusik album is very good. Kind of like a better Cut Copy.
I have joined the dark side! Yes, I have opened a twitter account. It's kind of an experiment really as I've given it a good slagging off in the past. However, I am quite enjoying it. It by no means replaces blogs or any other web 2.0 applications (and it shouldn't either, the internet is already making our attention spans shorter as it is), but it certainly makes more sense when you join it. From the outside it's impossible to navigate but if you join it's almost like having an MSN conversation with people except that you can see lots of conversations going on at the same time, as well as little thoughts. Plus, I can talk at celebrities in the vain that they might notice me. It's by no means the second coming like the Guardian bang on about though. So yeah, if anyone wants to add me then feel free. I'm magic_treehouse. Finding people to follow is a task though!
I was out Friday with people from James' work. I was feeling fine and was in good spirits and it was a great night all told. We started off at The Palace for food. Proper summer weather too. People seemed to be doing that annoying thing of 'moving on' though when we were perfectly happy with The Palace itself, plus, Revolution's drinks prices were about three times as much. Annoying. Still it was a laugh. I ended the night walking home with Vicky who'd took a chance with one of her free under-26s theatre tickets and ended up seeing a play involving a man with a massive penis chasing nymphs. At least she didn't pay for the privilege. We want to arrange tickets to go and see the Dracula ballet and Dial M for Murder. Good stuff.
We had a fairly quiet weekend. In fact, I can't remember anything we did apart from go and eat at the Museum cafe (always nice). Oh, we did watch Single White Female which, although it was a little slow to get going, was actually very good. Once it actually morphed into a thriller it was very good. I'll never look at stilettos in the same way again! Alas, there was far too much unecessary boobage for my liking.
On Monday evening we went out to Aagrah for a curry. Despite it being a little too close to my work place it was a lovely meal, I highly recommend it. I had a weird curry with lychees in it! Lovely though.
Yesterday I had my interview at Halifax library. Despite me having a useless map and going the wrong way to get there, I made it on time on account of a friendly elderly man helping me. The interview went really actually. We talked about all kinds of things; helping the elderly to learn computer skills, web 2.0, all kinds of things. There weren't any questions I couldn't answer. In fact, for some of the questions I had loads of evidence so I might have gone on a bit. It's better than the alternative. There's also the chance that the job might come out as being paid than it looks as it's under job evaluation. However, they had 80 applicants for the post and are interviewing for three days so my chances of getting it are slim whatever so I can't get my hopes up really. Especially as I've just seen what my current pay increase takes my wage up to. Over 20k! I'm only 0.8 though so I'm now on over 16K. Great stuff. I never realised that 5% would be so much. Can't get too attached to it though!
And that brings me up to date I think :D Oh, and the Frankmusik album is very good. Kind of like a better Cut Copy.
