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

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.

^^ real talk, interviewed a gem of a lady that might not have passed a resume screening process

I am liking listening to 3RRR's mix of surf music with the lights off and the shades down and the AC on minimal. (Got to conserve some electricity or Frankston will black out again)

good luck franga

I slept like shite last night cos my room has nothing but a ceiling fan, my housemate hogs the aircon in him room. I want to kill him.

Matmos tonight! How were the Aussie shows?

I didnae go, but r0b said they were "adorable" and it was awesome. I shoulda.

Sydney was great, in a purpose-built recital hall that's one of the best-sounding venues in the city. Which rendered slightly incongruous the track built on bright video of a toilet being taken apart and the plumbing snaked. (This was one of two or three world premiere pieces, apparently.)

Oh man, just got back from the show (was DJing til 3am); v.diff venue to a recital hall (rockabilly-ish dive bar). Yeah, the NY toilet gold/shit track/video was gawjiss (had the most uh audience interlocution by far).

MC noted they normally play rockabilly-ish dive bars and it was weird to be asked if eg the facilities were ok! the show probably would have been more fun overall in a standing/dancing venue, but the disconnect made it especially enjoyable on that level anyway

happy straya day mongrels

happy establishment of new south wales penal settlement day, blokes and shelias

like i said

just sayin', mate

happy look it's complicated

our land is girt by c's

burg advench droppin the top 10 for '13: http://theburgeradventure.com/top10-2013/

spotted mallard within walking distance of ur joint, j-child!

indeedly. went to the SP to see musical artistes and didn't like it as a venue, but could be ok for eats

*SM

intrigued by NSHRY burg too, must say

blurgher.

my zest for burgin has decreased as my waistline has increased