I must admit then when I saw these in our lounge room I thought the must just be a pair that belonged to Nicky. However I was quite wrong and it seems someone left them at our party.
So if that someone is you let me know and we’ll get them back to you.
Lesson for the day - perhaps you really can find lost things on the internet.
Wordpress.com has this terrific little feature when you have a blog there called Friend Surfer. It’s a lot like the old farken ace page but personal.
You add blogs you are interested in on Wordpress.com and it shows you recent posts from all of them all on the one page.
It’s dead handy for the basically lazy.
Lesson for the day - I like a one stop shop.
There are some issues I just don’t have a strong opinion on although I can see other people genuinely do and not just trivial stuff like which night Hornblower is on the ABC.
On other things I don’t have a second’s doubt about where I stand and I am staggered that other people have no opinion or judgment at all.
Lesson for the day - I guess it is easier to want to see someone else’s perspective than to really understand it.
I am suitably pround that I imagine I can just get a job based on being able to string together a few words and having completed my degree and my school rounds with pretty good results.
But these days the system is really decentralised and competitive. A whole lot of it comes down to who you know and presenting just right to the right people.
So I am happily accepting help from people who are prepared to offer it. In particular a friend of my Mum who knows all about such things has offered to give me some pointers and even have a talk to me in person once term is over.
She said that lots of graduate jobs don’t come up until January and I shouldn’t be all that surprised to have to start the year emergency teaching with an agency and find my way into a school through that. I have heard people say this before but it does bring me more comfort to have it from an intelligent person right in the thick of the business of schools.
I’ll still keep applying and taking care with the applications but I might only do the jobs I’d especially like rather than all jobs going.
So God bless my Mum for helping me out. It’s nice to be her team and wonderful to have her on mine.
Lesson for the day - when I comes to who you know I know the right people.
I was looking on Flickr for a picture for a post when I stumbled on this collection of Lego figures which are the cast of Firefly. Some of them I had to take an educated guess about who is was meant to be but others really captured the character for me (as much as Lego can).
Lesson for the day - it’s hard not to find Lego anything a bit cute and charming.
I find all these job applications are getting me down. I might not be especially bright but I am lucky in that I present well verbally. And I can write of course but it is not something I do especially well. Probably my biggest problem is my lack of effective proof reading which is something affectionately described as my typing disability.
I cringe, and with good reason, when I realise there are multiple typos in the responses I submit to the criteria for job applications. I know there are a whole range of reasons I haven’t had much success but sending in applications with silly mistakes like “an” rather than “or” or the same word twice is not helping me in the slightest.
So from now on I need to make the most of what I have got which means being really particular about reading this stuff out loud and also getting Nicky to proof read each and every one of these tedious documents.
Lesson for the day - written expression is easier to imagine you do well than to actually do well.
What I should be doing is writing a job application for a job I would really like before we have to do shopping and then I have to go to work.
What I am doing is eating about ten Oreo biscuits.
Lesson for the day - there is nothing rational about man.
When we first moved into our house our yard was literally just a muddy mess. When you walked around the outside of the house you actually got a bit taller because the mud built up on the bottom of your shoes.
Some six years later and our yard is just lovely. We have a big shady tree looking all green and alive and a lemon tree which, while smallish, is starting to produce quite a few lemons.
We have Finn’s cubby looking all beachy and the chooks areas which has been reclaimed from the monster weeds.
Today we got the hammock out of the garage and put it back up where it was an instant hit with Finn and Nicky.
Lesson for the day - it’s lovely to have such a lovely space to live in.
After people had been chatting and snacking for a while it became obvious to me that I would have to face up to my responsibilites and actually cook some stuff on the barbeque.
Now I am famous for my skills on this front. So much so that at our street barbeques people fall all over themselves to stop me doing it as I tend to burn absolutely everything.
So I started cooking and Spiros came out to keep me company and watched me murder the food for a while. Then he let it slip that he normally cooks at barbeques and I couldn’t hand over the tongs fast enough.
I am pleased to report that he’s a dab hand at this barbeque business so the food all turned out well. Hoorah for him.
Lesson for the day - it really is who you know.
After a gentle start people started arriving at our party. Actually pretty much everyone arrived in the space of an hour which was nice but also a little surprising. We figured you always get a little over half of the people who sounded interested but last night it was more like ninety-five percent so the place was certainly full of people and life.
I can happily report that everyone seemed to get along like a house on fire. While I was busy being my manic self I did notice only good things happening and no punchups of any description. The stars must have lined up just so because there was a good mix of people who knew each other and new people and it all went really well.
Lesson for the day - hoorah for a party and hoorah for Nicky for organising it.
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