mong summer dream (now featuring added winter, also spring)

Fast ferry only runs regularly during the on season, we had to take the Tallink one that took three hours each way.

There's also this bar

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Unfortunately the old Soviet prison is shut until May

Hey mongs, how are things w/yr new PM/gov? Still an endless vista of John Key over this side of the ditch, eesh.

bad, very bad

The only good news is it is SO bad even a lot of lib voters are going "hang on a minute now, thats not what you promised...."

oi sic did u get my email?

yeah but no further planning has occurred yet. Ed and I are going to an ice bar in Prague tonight though.

enjoy the slamming

Oh hai, we met Tuomas. And we are going to mention this on EVERY THREAD on the entirety of ILX. But here first.

were any babies harmed

No.

what is a tuomas idgi

joeks

Did you yell ARE YOU FINNISH!? at him.

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No, but I did run down the streets of Helsinki yelling "THE RASMUS! DARUDE! FUCK YEAH".

Haaaaaa :)

btw who among us is doing matmos in jan?

didn't even know they woz coming!

shit news baout the empress - hope whatever the family issues are improve but doesn't sound good

i have a theory on what these family issues are, completely unsubstantiated, that one member of the family doesn't want to close it and the rest have an issue with that

sup mongs, s- just pwned me at pool in helsinki

Excited about Matmos in Jan; I'm DJing at the Wgtn show :)

Also, wtf at yr 'Freedom Commissioner'.

eric abetz is a massive irl troll, is how I break it down to an extent

IPA used to be a hoppy tasty beer but now it is our overgrown young tory overlords.

we are in Oslo. Reports that we are to FAP with Geir Hongro are FALSE FALSE FALSE.

^^the safe strategy imo

no melody for mel ed o

official: geir is the myth, not tuomas

ed, kit, this is why we should have fapped in tampere

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OTM

(orbs, teats, mammaries)

Two weeks since the last post! Slackers.

Whos going to Matmos on Sunday? Im wondering wether I should go.

i'm guessing nobody, unless h is planning to

Im in 2 minds mainly cos its a schoolnight and I'm trying to stay on the wagon at the mo.

prolly won't be attending - scaling back on expenditure$ til job sitch is sorted

sensib

time to add "summer" to thread title again

done

Ugh 4 days of 40C ahead of us. Not fun.

went down st kilda rd yesterday for a meeting w/ a recruitment agency in dat heat

woman i met said "i wouldn't have cared if you'd turned up in a t-shirt"

how about nood

Any luck with a job? this heat and the job search are getting me down.

Yeah Ive been hearing that a lot from even my most skilled mates in the IT arena, when companies or roles go under, theyve been suprised to find the usual similar roles just arent out there.

Which makes me reluctant to ask for a payrise even though its been six fucking years and ive not had one.

Having manufacturing plastered all over your CV is not great either. Holden and ford pretty much dead and Alcoa looking on its uppers the only jobs are in food and pharma. No food experience and I don't think I want to work in secondary chicken processing any way. Add to that that Abbot fucked renewable energy just as I arrived...

What are good temp agencies for office grunt work? It's getting to that stage.

What about somewhere like CSIRO, is that in your area of expertise?

Abbott government are more into cuts than expansion at CSIRO. Universities are hiring and I'm currently procrastinating putting the cherry on top of a job application for Monash that looks interesting and in my range of competences even if it would be a bit of a pay cut.

Of course it's a significant pay rise from being unemployed so shouldn't grumble really

meeting w/ the recruiter yesterday was for something that is practically dream job material - trying not to get too excited but she's going to put me forward for it.

had a couple interviews either side of xmas - one i basically fucked up the interview through nerves, the other they wanted someone with more mentoring/coaching experience.

Whos going to Matmos on Sunday? Im wondering wether I should go.

going tonight

I have been conducting interviews and doing reference checks this week at my work.

It's only a little bit more fun on the other side of the interview table!

I enjoy being on the other side of the table and tins certainly given me some insight into how to get a resume past HR and to the person that matters. For jobs I really want I Wil answer the job spec point by point in a table. From the other side I gave up on HR screening resumes I could do it much faster and bring people in wjo would never have made it through an HR screen some of whom have turned out to be pure gold.