Moose Musings

11:09pm: Yes, damnit! While on the bus this afternoon on the way back from Newtown (the modem seems to be up and running with the new cable, but the Foxtel remains screwy - also I somehow got no email notification about my bill being overdue and was this close to getting cut off!) when I got a phone call from the boss.

Long and short of it they don't need me to work on Thursday's anymore! FUUUUCK! It could have been worse I suppose, like I could have lost my job outright, but son of a bitch! Unbelievable...If I ever find out the motherfucker behind casualisation of the workforce I will kick him in the balls so hard! Now, even if I wanted to I wouldn't be able to go back to Newtown to live. :O(

I have attempted to console myself with the thought that maybe this means my ship will come in with the library job, I have an interview there at 9:30 on Monday. I called the parish priest to make sure he can give me a reference and Mum's going to be here (I think Mum and Dad might be moving back here this weekend?) so I can be sure my hair will be nice and stylish before I head out. FINGERS AND TOES CROSSED EVERYONE!

I'm wondering...with all this bullshit going on if I shouldn't just buy some paid account time for my Dreamwidth so I can get me some icons and change the mood theme, just to make me feel not so irritated by life. Plus the Aussie dollar has gone up to a new high in the last few months - not parity, but still in the 90s.

And...I don't really have much more to say, although I've totally been lazy as Hell since getting back from Newtown and I haven't carried the rest of my baskets upstairs. I better do that tomorrow because the cleaner is coming on Friday.

I don't really have anything more to say, so I'll wrap this up here. Send me all your good vibes, friends!

Goodnight!

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11:06pm: Yes, I was planning on writing my application for the job at the ABC Tape Centre, but I've discovered I've lost my touch! I have no idea how to address the selection criteria without repeating myself constantly, or are you allowed to do that?

In other news, I finally got back to the gym, I did my weights, which leaves me to wonder what to do for tomorrow since you're not meant to do weights on consecutive day but I'm not sure if my foot is up to the treadmill and whatnot, since using the rowing machine left it achey, but only a little bit, so fingers crossed.

And now I've left stuff rather late so I still haven't done the Memes, whoops... or done any work on my assignment (ahem sorry that's gonna start up again...). So busy, gawd.

And now I need to get myself to bed. Wish me luck with all my doings.

Goodnight!

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11:31pm: Indeed so, today was the job interview - which I managed to have moved to 11 am, volunteer work at the library and then to the apartment to show prospective tenants around.

I'm not sure how the interview went, I hate this new system where they ask you to tell them about a time you... I can never think of an answer when I'm on the spot like that, it's a bloody pain in the ass. Still, they've promised to get back to me by the end of next week. Fingers crossed that I get an offer and it's for more hours than I have at the newsagency otherwise I might as well not take the job.

After that I got on the bus and headed to the train station for my volunteer job, I managed to just miss a train, so I had to wait half an hour for the next one, which wasn't so bad and I got there a little after 1pm. On the way to the library I decided to get a small serving of chips at a shop and may I just say small serving my ass! It was huge! I only managed to eat half of them, and I was going to take the rest home to Dad because he likes to make cold chip sandwiches but by the time I arrived at the apartment at 5:30 I was rather hungry so I reheated them and finished them off. Although they weren't particularly delicious...shame.

The first three prospective tenants were all extremely interested in the place so now we just have to wait for their references to come in and pick one of them with Mum's help of course, although she ran late so was only there for the fourth prospective tenan (a couple) who didn't seem all that interested after they saw the size of the place.

And interesting fact, I didn't wait in the apartment since I don't live there any more, I went into the meeting room on the ground floor, set up my laptop and discovered I could connect to my internet from there. Niiice.

Anywho, since time is getting on, here's the Memes!

Booking Through Thursday

Category

Of the books you own, what’s the biggest category/genre?

Is this also the category that you actually read the most?

Ha ha, well, thanks to all those Sweet Valley books I have I guess I would have to say teenage romance. Heh. I don't actally read them that often though, that would probably go to the fantasy and sci-fi books. :O)

3x Thursday

Schedules

1. What’s your schedule like during the week normally? What do you do, where do you go, etc? I work on Monday from 9:30 to 6 and Saturday 9:30 to 2:45. Aside from that and my volunteer work on Thursday things are pretty wide open. Sunday is Merlin Day! :OD

2. What’s your schedule like on the weekends? And er, I answered that up in question 1, whoops.

3. What would your ideal schedule be? A nice job with normal hours! Because then I'd be living in the normal world, rather than this sort of limbo thing. It kind of messing with my how I plan my time and stuff.

And The NaNoWriMo Meme!

Day 1 - Have you participated in NaNoWriMo before? If so, which years and what end result? If not (or even if so, for that matter), what’s your connection to writing? Why do you want to participate this year?

Day 2 - What’s the title of your story? Why did you choose the name you did?

Day 3 - Pick one of your female characters. Introduce your readers to her, from her point of view and her words only.

Day 4 - What genre is your novel? Why did you pick it?

Day 5 - Name two songs from your playlist that you feel are connected with your novel in some way, and explain how they are.

Day 6 - What is your one biggest stressor related to forcing yourself to write at least 50,000 words in a span of 30 days?

Day 7 - Where’s your favorite place to hunker down and write?

Day 8 -List your current, most up-to-date word count. Are you satisfied with your progress thus far?

Day 9 - Have you told anyone else you’re doing NaNo this year? Who? What was their reaction?

Day 10 - How does your love of writing manifest in non-NaNo months?

Day 11 - Ever tried collaborative writing (such as play-by-post roleplaying)? If so, what do you think of it?

Day 12 - Imagine you’re behind in your word count goals (even if you’re not) and are going to pull an all-nighter to catch up. Screencap a playlist of inspirational music you would use to get you up to speed.

Day 13 - Name a male character from your novel. Describe him through the point of view and words of the female character you introduced in question 3 (if they never interact, pick another female character).

Day 14 - Is the sexuality of your characters a large part of your novel’s story? If so, are there characters who deviate from the heterosexual “norm”? In what way?

Day 15 - Do any of your characters have a disability or mental illness? If so, how does that affect their development throughout your story?

Day 16 - At around the half-way point, it bears mentioning that most of us wrimos have other obligations beside simply hitting that elusive word count. What else do you have going on in your life (work, school, children, neurotic pets, etc.), and just how much are you shafting it to win NaNo?

Day 17 - In what time period is your novel set? Is it in this world or another?

Day 18 - Who is the antagonist in your novel? What drives their actions?

Day 19 - Which authors or books have inspired your own writing the most, and why?

Day 20 - If you could meet one fictional character from any book you’ve ever read, who would it be, and why?

Day 21 - With about 10 days left to this arguably traumatic experience, what are your plans and goals for your novel, should you successfully complete it?

Day 22 - If you’ve participated in or won NaNo before, what happened to your other novel efforts? Still in the revision process/querying publishers/scrapped it immediately/etc.

Day 23 - Do animals play any part in your story? If so, how do they add to it?

Day 24 - Is religion featured in your novel at all? If so, which ones? If it’s/they’re your own creations, describe it/them and how it/they play(s) a part in your characters’ lives.

Day 25 - What are the names of at least two of your main characters? How did you choose their names? Well, there's Galfridus and Blodeuyn, who are Geoffrey's parents. I selected his father's name, Galfridus because when I looked at Geoffrey's webpage that it is the Latin version of his name. And as nice as following the article's suggestion that Arthur was Geoffrey's father's name, I decided to go with Galfridus.
As for Blodeuyn I got that name of a Welsh name site, it sounded pretty so I picked it :O).

( Four days left! )

And my word count! I'm now half way through! :OD

25211 / 50000 words. 50% done!

Right better wrap up here, I wish you all goodnight!

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10:56pm: Yes indeed, because my current one is on it's last legs, so now I have a nice new one! :OD It's got many compartments and a place to put my mobile phone, I went to several shops to find it in fact. And at a kickass price too! It says it's genuine leather so I hope so.

What else to report...oh yes! My mother has intervened with the Newsagency Boss, she went in this morning to explain what I had meant to say but hadn't been able to because I freeze up in confrontational situations like this. Anyway apparently the Newsagency still might have use for me (which in all honesty I should take up because I do need money), but I'll have to wait til the beginning of next week because the Big Boss needs to discuss it with the Co-Boss.

Hmmm, it occurs to me though I'm 27 years old, is it incredibly lame of me to get my mother to help me with my battles? Even if it did work?

More importantly, the library people were very happy for me! :OD They want to hear all about my experiences at the ABC. Although at present I'm not sure if I can still volunteer there, we'll have to see how the Newsagency works out, I may be working 'full-time'.

( Anyway, memes! )

Right, it's getting on in time and I have to get up tomorrow so I can catch the bus over to church to help Dad with Stations of the Cross. It'll be on the Sunday schedule so yeah.

I bid you all goodnight!

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10:46pm: You might as well make use of your time.

Yes, I woke up a whole half hour earlier than usual and after taste testing the cupackes, I realised there was no way I could take them to work.

I also found out what was wrong with them. Some how I started off following the wrong recipe! So I didn't have enough sugar in them, that's why the taste so odd.

I really don't know what to do with them. I remade them to the recipe and they were delicious as always AND after getting icing sugar I made very yummy chocolate buttercream icing. I suppose I could put the icing on the not so good cupcakes. I hate to waste food...maybe I can take some to the Mum and Dad.

As I said, they don't taste bad they just don't taste like I expected them too.

Anyway, I am tired, so I better make this quick.

Thursday Top Ten

Spring Is In The Air!

Well actually, it's autumn here, but whatever...

What are the Top Ten things you love about spring?

1. The weather gets warmer
2. The days last longer
3. The leaves grow back on the trees
4. Christmas is coming!
5. You can wear shorts
6. ????
7. Profit

:OP

Booking Through Thursday

Cheating

Do you cheat and peek at the ends of books? (Come on, be honest.)

Not often, but sometimes. I wouldn't recommend it, it really takes the fun out of it! Although it it's a good book, I'll read it anyway. :O)

3x Thursday

TV Series

Name 3 TV series you’ve watched (it doesn’t have to be recent) that you’ve really liked, and tell us why.

1. Frasier: Because it was smart and funny and I really loved the characters of Niles and Daphne. :O)
2. The Simpsons - I don't care what you say, I still love it.
3. Air Crash Investigation - I do love a good doco. At investigations fascinate me.

And now, bed calls!

Sniff, tomorrow is my last day at the library. :O( Sigh...so unfair, why can't I stay?

One day, I hope, one day soon...

Good night all!

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11:45pm: There was major serious RPG business tonight, so I got caught up in that. Plus I have to get to work tomorrow a bit early because I'm going out on the Book Mobile Home Library service. Exciting stuff.

And fortunately for me, the memes are about the Oscars which I don't watch, so I'll give that a miss.

And that's my exciting life today! :OP

Goodnight all!

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9:58pm: So I was playing The Sims 3 today, or trying too, it would just freeze up on me! It's very bizarre, because I opened an earlier saved game and it's working fine (knock on wood), maybe there's too many characters in the other one. Apparently you can get this mod that can keep the neighbourhood numbers down. I'll have to look into that.

I also went to the Sydney Uni Library, aaah it's been a long time since I've popped on down there to look up books...good times, good times.

I was going to go Church but the top of my left foot was sore...I don't know what that's all about.

I still can't get my favourite channel to work...so annoying! I really must get onto the Foxtel people about that.

And now memes!

The (Other) Friday Five

Random!

1. If you had to have a Siamese Twin, who would you want it to be and why?

Well it'd have to be my identical twin wouldn't it...ahem...really I wouldn't want a Siamese Twin I just saw a documentary today on twins conjoined at the head. I don't know...

2. Would you rather be connected at the top of the head, or at the waist and why?

The waist, better chance of being successfully seperated!

3. Make up a definition to the made up word "kituxilicious". Use it in a sentence.

The sight of so much food struck Mr. Cosington as been entirely too kituxilicious.

4. Do you think there is something ultimately good about everyone?

Most of the time, except for people like Hitler or Saddam Hussein...but I suppose when they were kids maybe even they had something decent about them.

5. Would you relive your high school days? Why/why not?

Hell yeah! I loved school and life was easier back then, good times, good times...

Friday's Question

8/07/10

What is your astrological zodiac sign? Do you think your personal characteristics match that of your astrological zodiac sign?

Capricorn. And from the site provided it says I am:
Practical and prudent
Ambitious and disciplined
Patient and careful
Humorous and reserved

Pessimistic and fatalistic
Miserly and grudging

And the only thing that remotely corresponds with me is Humourous, other than that, that list of traits doesn't represent me at all!

Saturday 9

:Go Your Own Way:

1. When was the last time you were told to go your own way?

Well, when I got fired last year that was basically said. My fellow employee dropped me off at my parents house at least...

2. What one experience has strengthened your character the most so far?

Well, probably that job, despite the bad way it ended, it gave me skills, bit of confidence, stuff like that. And it gave me something to do while the parental units were away overseas for all those months.

3. What's your favorite thing to do on a rainy day?

Pretty much the same thing I do every day, LOL, I'm not one for the outdoors...

4. How long can you go without your cell phone?

Probably for a good long while, if not permanently. Although it does come in handy if you get lost and need to call somewone for directions.

5. Do you wish you were somewhere else right now?

Nope! Loving it here in the old apartment! Shame to have to leave it tomorrow. :O(

6. Of all the people you've ever known, who have you most feared?

Ummm...gee...I don't know...I don't know if I've ever feared anyone.

7. Do people tell you that you look your age?

Nope, they say I look younger, always good to hear for a woman, LOL! :O)

8. Your ex shows up randomly at your house, what do you say?

N/A.

9. Do you believe everyone deserves a second chance?

Usually, unless they're a pedophile or something...ugh.

And that's all for today...

I say goodnight to you all!

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10:46pm: It really does...first of all, I keep dilly dallying on this job thing, and I have to send it tomorrow because I'm sending it by mail not email (my email address is not condusive to getting jobs!). But yeah, use your brain, Moose!

Also there's my uni course! I've got to post on the board and shit like that, bad enough it took me more than a month to find where the actual course readings and whatnot are set out. No prizes there!

Anyway! Tomorrow morning I have to go pick up some more stuff for the boat, but it should be nowhere near as heavy as the liferaft so I should be cool in carrying down to the office.

Anyway, I have to turn in soon, so have a meme!

"I Want..." Wednesday

This weeks question is:

What meal do you want at this very instant?

Uhh...well I've just eaten and all so I'm not hungry right now. LOL, more fail right there.

Righto, bed time!

Goodnight all!

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10:11pm: Today was ANZAC Day, and the mass this morning went quite well although there were some problems with stuff not showing up on the Power Point properly.

Also, I don't think I got enjoy sleep this week, so I'm tired and stuff, that being the case I'm gonna keep this quick.

I've been spending most of the day writing my fanfic since I discovered this morning my readership has returned! My co-worker Terry must have lifted the curse after all, LOL!

Speaking of work, I seem to recall that I was poking around the net at work yesterday when I really shouldn't have and I probably forgot to delete the cache on Internet Explorer. Which means I might have to ahem, pop by work to do so, since I don't wish to get my ass in trouble. (Yeah, I know surfing the net at work is bad - I try not to do it and most of the time I succeed)

Anyway where was...oh yeah so I wrote that new chapter, but I haven't posted it yet, because like I said I'm tired and I'm not sure if it's actually all that good and I don't want to post it in case it isn't.

Righto, here's Thursday's Memes:

3x Thursday

Half Full or Half Empty?

1. No matter what country you live in, do you think the future is bright (or gloomy) in terms of the economy? Why/why not?

Well, damn that's hard to say...I'm thinking on the whole...bright. But then if the US goes down the plughole it'll probably take the rest of us with it.

2. What about the current food shortage going on in the world? What are your thoughts about this?

Now I didn't hear about this until just yesterday and damn me if that isn't freaky as anything! I mean what the Hell are we going to do when we run out of food? Of course right now it seems to be effecting poor countries the most. I haven't seen any food shortages here... Cross fingers.

3. What 3 things (among others!) do you think need significant change to make the world a better place? Why?

Fresh water for all - Diarrhea is a major cause of death in poor countries

Better food distrubution - Tonnes of food is thrown out every day (or maybe every week...I hope so, every day is just horrible) while people starve, it's a crime!

Free and fair elections - Because dictators suck (see Zimbawe, Iraq under Saddam etc).

Booking Through Thursday

Springing (Not down here)

Do your reading habits change in the Spring? Do you read gardening books? Even if you don’t have a garden? More light fiction than during the Winter? Less? Travel books? Light paperbacks you can stick in a knapsack?

Or do you pretty much read the same kinds of things in the Spring as you do the rest of the year?

I've never read a gardening book in my life, I don't care what season it is...I do read travel books, but mostly for story related purposes. Basically I read the same all year round, eclectically (I often start books and then leave off...and shit,I think I have a seriously overdue library book...I just checked and oh fuck it's like a month overdue, must call library tomorrow - that's going to be the biggest library fine I've ever had... OK about 7 bucks, but still shit. - Er...ahem, I digress...)

Thursday Threesome

::The Convenience of Extra Cash::

Onesome: The-- endless onslaught of junk snail mail: how much do you get each week? I'm thinking maybe we could use it as insulation in our houses...

Hmmm...not that much actually, but that might have to do with the fact that a lot of the time, whoever delivers it doesn't bother to stick it in the mailbox, just under where the mailboxes are so it gets thrown out by someone else. Still that stuff is totally annoying and a horrible waste of trees besides.

Twosome: Convenience of-- a quick in and out? Do you have a convenience store nearby that is really convenient for you?

Sorta, but I don't usually go there because the food is so much more expensive...but sometimes I do if it's late or I just want an ice cream or something.

Threesome: Extra cash--? When you need some, where do you get it? ...the ATM? ..."write for over" at the store? What is this 'cash' thing you speak of ?

There's an ATM at a convience store near me, which is really good, because last night I had to go there to get money to pay the plumber. Although I usually do things on my credit (actually debit) card since it's cheaper.

Right, so yeah, I'm tired, and now super worried about that library book...that means I owe like $10 to the library...damn...I suck. What a waste of money too. I can't believe I forgot about that book! I'll have to go home after church tomorrow for sure so I can return it...although that will give me two extra days of fines. Damn.

On that sour note, good night to you all.

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I'm going to have such a amount of library fines it's not funny! I totally forgot to renew them, dang...I'm really too poor to pay them...I suppose technically you don't really have to because unlike the library in the city they don't suspend your borrowing ability if you've got overdue stuff. But of course you have the library staff riding your butt about it everytime you come in.

In other news though I just saw the coolest thing on C&I, this guy was investigating what happened to this fellow called D.B Cooper and when to find a 727, since that's the plane the guy jumped out of. So anyway he found at 727 and guess what he found! The guy who had the plane was turning it into a holiday house to live in! LOL! That's like the best idea ever! He even had some of the original seats so you can still pretend you're flying through the skies. Great stuff! If I ever found an old plane I'd totally do that.

I'm currently waiting for my parents to ring so I can go pick 'em up, and I've just had a thought...last time I was over Dad said I need to stop bringing my laptop over because I set it up on the table downstairs and it pisses him off. But my George III story is on here! Hmmm, I guess I'll just bring out the USB, but damn I hate that his laptop has larger font. But then I'm going to a party tomorrow so it's not like I'll be hanging out with my own laptop for very long.

I was gonna do more of the survey, but I'm sure my parents will be calling any moment, so I'll just do the Friday Memes.

( Bring it! )

Right didn't get a chance to post this before I left, so I'm putting it up now and turning in. I want a good night sleep tonight!

Goodnight all!

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