updated: sydney's unemployment situation reduced

I have just been offered a position officially at command recruitment. Its a data analysis and resourcing position... lots of fun :)

Mon - Wed 6pm-9pm at Wynyard.

upsides:
It looks fantastic. The people are nice. The work is stimulating and challenging. The work fits with my timetable well.

downsides:
I will miss the last half hour of equip... and most regretably the party train. Next week will in fact be my last party train

that being said - the actual party train itself is about to disappear... cityrail plans to kill it!
such a sad week it will be... :*(

current song: Alien Ant Farm - Glow.

up and down

Has been a while since I have had anything really to post. This week certainly rates as weird enough to merit a post.

1. Jobs. Stres out time for the last 4 weeks as I think about employment... particularly for next year. I have applied for a job in recruitment analysis, and things are looking up there. 3 hours a night mon-wed if I get it. I was called by them last night - and they told me that I was on a very short short list at the moment. More information coming by friday.. suits me fine.

I then got home, and had received 6 interestig emails. 4 of them were for contract work for web development. 1 was from railcorp asking us if we had some time over the summer holidays for "some additional work". 1 was from wormald (the navy folks) - offering me dec-jan work coding up some of the subsystems for the work I was going to get full time next year.

it doesn't rain - it pours. I have had to turn down all but 1 web dev job - I completed that one today and will give it to them in a week or so. Either way - its a real praise point!! thank God!

2. Cricket: my goodness I am keen for some cricket this season! Nets session last weekend was good fun - but was a bit worrying. I nearly had my nose broken by a 15 year old fellow from my youth group (he's a really sharp left arm bowler - but he's 15 - hes not allowd to do that to me :)). So very exciting there!

3. Pondering my father. Equip paper really has got me thinking about my dad - how I should be relating and thinking about him... what should I be doing? how can I be honouring him when really all I think about him is painful hurt memories - and a real anger at him? I don't know.... I'm feeling pretty rotten bout it all.

4. Weird weird mental processes. I don't know how many people hit confusion point about what to do in messy situations. I'm there right now. There is just some stuff happening that I wish I knew what to do.... I just wish I had clarity about what is the best way forward, and I am very scared of stuffing things up.
I can't really be more than appropriately vague at this stage... which also is tough because I talk things out... thats how I sort things out - but I just can't with this.

Anyways - enormous highs and lows... the rollercoaster story of my life... I wish I was just more stable.


Current song: 12 stones - photograph ... it sums me up perfectly...

Flat...

This week has been a pretty weird week... highs and lows, points of being overjoyed and points of being flat. Hae had work troubles, have had some serious youth group troubles... on the opposite side of things - I have an awesome small group, whom I am thoroughly looking forward to looking at Romans with this semester. I also had a really fun night on Thursday, playing drums with Bron's church band for an upcoming music service.
Have really been thinking about some wise words that Katay gave about us being a society that looks for ups and upper ups... and can see that alot in myself. I do look for the upper-up - and I also tend to rollercoaster a bit emotionally (as if not obvious :) ). The question I pose is... well how should I be changing the way I view the lows that appear?

most of you were at equip... if you weren't (heathen), that's ok. But how do you reckon we should view lows... and how do you guys deal with them - just in how you do things?

well thats D & M thought of the night... ciao

current song: Mest - "What's the Dilio"