Waiting.
Today was my Sunday ~ Monday for the rest of the working world, which meant that I was finally contacted by a recruitment agency I sent an application to a fortnight ago, when everyone was on holidays.
Not content with wrenching me from my sleepless bed
(insomnia strikes again!!) & a
Lovejoy novel, this recruiter was determined to make up for lost time & set me up for an interview today with a potential employer...
Who, it turns out, I had an interview with in December 2005. The records show that I turned him down at the time because I didn't think the money was good enough. Well, it's certainly better than what I'm getting flogging beach umbrellas & BBQs to boho bozoes in Brookvale, under the misplaced sneering of a hobbit born with a silver spoon up his arse.
So, times change, needs must... all those applicable homilies. The only issue I have is ~ it's almost
too good a job to have as a temporary measure whilst prospects in Melbourne sort themselves out. But, as a contingency plan, I can't think of a better one.
In other news, Comet McNaught was visible in the western sky tonight for about half an hour. To the naked eye, it was the size & brightness of a smallish star. My camera's zoom was nowhere near powerful enough to get a good shot, but when seen through binoculars, the head & tail were clearly discernible. Compared with the anti-climax that was Comet Halley in 1986, McNaught was smaller, but much better defined. At least it
looked like a comet when you saw it... unlike Halley, which was nothing more than an indistinct smear in the sky. Apparently, it will be in the western sky again tomorrow night at around the same time
(from about 8.10pm ~ 8.45pm), but will be fainter, as it moves away, not to return for a couple of million years.
Here's why I couldn't see it last night...
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