New Job

Sorry I haven't updated in a while, it's been a busy week or so, spent job hunting and then working. The good news is that I have a new job which is fantastically well paid, and, for the first time in my life, I'm NOT employed through an agency!! I was getting pretty stressed out by last Thursday, having joined a million temping agencies, taken a million annoying interviews, and still not found anything, when I got a call from my friend Rachel telling me to come and meet her at work...and I got lucky. She'd gone to this company as a temp, and really impressed them so they'd given her the role of administrator for this project-thing, but then, rubbishly, she found out she has to take 30 days off work while her new visa work rights come through...so she recommmended me to her company and they took me on!!

So now I have a job as project administrator for a facilities management company...it's cool, 6 weeks of really well paid work, and it beats telesales ANY DAY, but it is somewhat more...uh...challenging. I started on tuesday and realised I had no idea what I was doing...talk about a learning curve! it was a pretty stressful week, including a meeting on wednesday in which I had to take minutes FOR SEVEN HOURS, but by the end of the week I was feeling alot better. I think I've been managing to bluff my way through. And thank god it's the weekend.

In other news, I've got lots of new housemates which is interesting, though I miss the old ones. Last week we had a leaving do for my friend Colin and I cooked Thai green curry for 6 people, which turned out fantastic, after a shaky start (the curry paste is so pungent, I added it to the pan and everyone started sneezing and choking from the fumes) and a cake, and was basically a total domestic goddess.

Oh, and we finally went to see Russell Crowe and his band. $20, but oh man it was worth it!! A totally fantastic performance...Russell Crowe is basically a comedian, and in addition to playing some not-bad music (lots of covers, some Nick Cave, some Johnny Cash) had us all in total hysterics. I think he is actually insane, mind you. It was really excellent, and we ended up dancing right by the stage. There was an exciting moment at the end when we stole a setlist and found a mobile phone number written on the back, which we decided must belong to Mr Crowe - but then we called it and got the voicemail of some girl called Jenny. Damn.