Sleepless in Scotland

Shiny Thing Of The Day: podslash.

Have located my CV, which I thought I'd lost (wasn't on my computer, argh), at one of the jobseeking sites I signed up at back in 2004. Now I just need to update it and statr applying for jobs. I really like the sound of this filing clerk job--no contact with customers, tasks I know how to do, and how to do well, and it pays well more than I'm getting now.

I really wish I had an official job description for my current job. I'm sure it's on my contract, but that's buried in my stash of paperwork at home right now. Plus, I'm doing so much additional stuff that it'd be fairly useless even if I did find it, but it might give me an idea about how to phrase things. Anyway.

Okay, I think I managed it. Anyone want to have a look at my CV (word or pdf) and tell me how it looks? I know my home landline number is missing, I need to add that at home as I don't know it by heart.

Still feeling like crap. Debating if I want to go to the doctor's today or tomorrow. Meh. On the bright side, at least being unable to go to Escapade means I'm not flying while feeling like this, which quite possibly would've been hell

(Those of you who are going to/at Escapade, you will be writing panel reports and such, right?)

And now, some memes. From deepsix: Want to know why I gave any of my stories the title that I did? Drop me a comment and I'll tell you. And hell, let's tack on a related meme I've seen a while ago: Curious about what happened after one of my stories ended? Ask away, and if I know, I'll tell you! Hell, ask just about anything about my stories, and I'll gladly tell you, heh.

From, uh, everyone: If you make up titles for stories I didn't write, I will respond with details of those non-written stories. Just think of the possibilities! (If you'd like to include details you'd like, pairings or fandom or something, do that too.)

From babyofthegroup: The Great Write Meme. Go tell me what you think about my writing! (I'm going through the pages now commenting on people I know. It's fun!)

From dine ( interests meme! )

Also from deepsix: naljwrimo2006 Am tempted, precious ...

My iPod is having fits at me, augh! *shakes it* Pretend all you want that you no longer have any songs on your hard drive, bu at least connect to my computer so I can re-upload, then, damn you!

I'm also not getting LJ comments again, or getting them way late. This is vexing me muchly. *shakes LJ like a baby* GIMME!

(So apparently I called krazycat on New Year's Eve. I have no memory of this whatsoever. Er. *blinks owlishly*)

In order to give us some busywork, we're supposed to, between calls, read this ... something about computers. I can't remember the exact title of the book this stuff is from, but it's frankly hilarious. It's supposed to be a bunch of training modules on IT skills, but it assumes a level of basic knowledge that is, basically, non-existant. Granted, I've been using the computer for thirteen-odd years now, so my level of IT knowledge is probably higher than most, but considering that we're all of us using computers on a daily basis, at work if not at home, I think we can assume we all know what a mouse is, right?

The only reason I managed to get through the whole first module is that the whole thing is also so out of date it's hilarious. The book was supposedly written in 2001 and updated in 2002, which would be old enough, in this field, but I seriously was guessing late nineties at the latest. I mean, it mentions WordPerfect, people. And light pens (but not drawing pads!), and 800x600 monitors as the highest definition ones, and dot matrix printers, and HDs measured in MB, and that the 3.5" floppy has "become the norm", and the Y2K bug and the iloveyou virus (was that as long ago asay 2000? huh.) and we won't even go into the internet section, where 56KBaud is still "the maximum speed of the public telephone network" and I seem to have scribbled in the margin something about "What is this broadband of which you speak?"

Oh, and this:

Even the smallest office has now come to rely on computers. However, in some situations, person skills cannot be replaced.

I mean, what? Did the author feel like they had to reassure us of that or something? I seriously sat herefor five minutes WTFing over that line.

Oh, god, Module 2 begins with an in-detail introduction to ... Windows 95. And how to use the mouse, what the various parts of a window are, and how to play Solitaire. I'm sorry, I'm refusing to continue with this travesty. I'll find my own busywork, thanks.

Haaaaaappy New Year! Am rather drunk and. Um. Stuff. Hiiiiiiii!

Oooh, shiny new toy! Pretteh! *plays with it*

Had to take a break from knitting for a few days because my wrists were bugging me, but I'm back in full force now.

I've decided not to go with the Broad Street Mittens after all, but with these. Except in black, obviously. I'm also thinking of making the pretty blue/teal yarn that can vaguely be seen here into a triangular shawl for my brother's girlfriend. Hey, 17-yos on my friendslist, would this be something a teenaged girl would like? She's kinda goth/punk, not uber-trendy, and I figure a nice shawl is always handy to wear over a dress or a sleeveless top on a chilly night, right?

I also kinda want to try cabling. Hey, ruby_fruit, for your hat, how about something like this, except obviously with stripes instead of solid colour.

[ETA] Almost forgot, one of the pullovers I got for frogging is getting a black dye bath and is turning into a pair of these. Yay slippers![/ETA]

Well then. It's not often I get to talk to someone who talks faster than I do. *blinks* Is this how people feel when I rattle at them? Maybe I ought to try and slow down a bit more, then.

Management have finally given us a taget of number of calls we should make per day. Turns out I've been making, er, nearly twice that on the average day. Whoopsie. And then I volunteered for overtime, and overtime for marketing (i.e. cold) calls, as well. Because clearly I am a masochist.

Hat progress: Stripe nine of thirty-three. Should be finished by end of this week, I think, and then my gran's coming over for the weekend, and hopefully I'll be able to sweet-talk her into buying me a bunmch of yarn. (Yes, yes, I am evil and take advantage of the elderly. Shaddup. She likes spending money on me, and I don't like clothes-shopping, I prefer to book-shop alone, and there's only so much I can eat.) I was going to have a bunch more knitting blather here, but it occurs to me perhaps I should make a seperate journal for the crafts stuff, where I can babble to my heart's content and maybe also post pictures and such. It'd be mostly knitting, though I may pick up cross-stiitching at some point, and if I

( Poll? )

[ETA] Hm, or I could just put the rest of the creative/artsy/crafty stuff in mounthelicon, which after all is named after the place where all the muses, presumably including whichever muse is responsible for knitting, reside.[/ETA]

Okay, I skimmed a lot, but I think I managed to get through my flist. If I've missed something, let me know.

Just finished tagging the September entries for the 11th and onwards. God. Just. Yeah.

You know, the one downside to the tags is that clicking on them only takes you back to the last hundred entries with that tag, which is annoying for those of us who've had our LJ since late 2000 and who used to spam a lot about roleplaying, for example. :(

Two and a half months left of 2002. Onwards!

I've been backtagging my entries, and I'm currently all the way back to Janary 2003. O vey. That still leaves two years of entries to tag, though. But not today. Ow.