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My working week goes like this: Monday, Monday, Friday, Wednesday, Monday, Friday, Saturday... repeat
I have Wednesdays & Saturdays off, so it feels like I have 2 Fridays... & 3(!!!!!) Mondays. If that seems like cruel & unusual punishment, it certainly feels like it - on 2 of the 3 Mondays anyway. Confused yet? How do you think I feel... I'm not even sure what month we're in - Christmas was a couple of months ago, right? So why are all the shops full of tinsel & blaring Christmas music at me when all I want is a coffee?!?
The stream of job applications continues from both my PC & my phone & the stream of responses continues to be as non-existent as the water-management plan for the Murray-Darling river system. I have a vision of a junk mail folder at the recruitment agencies that gets automatically emptied of all my applications every couple of hours. It's not as visually vivid as a printer spewing out my CV & cover letter, straight into a shredder directly beneath it... but it's probably more technologically accurate!
According to the rest of the world's media, Sydney & most of New South Wales is burning!!! Well, certainly a lot of the state is on fire during a drought & the weather has been unseasonably hot, incredibly windy & dry as a nun's nasty, but there are really only a couple of big fires causing concern right now & none of them are in Sydney. We had a couple of small grass & scrub fires in the suburbs, but they were quickly contained & there has been no threat to the Opera House, Harbour Bridge, or Bondi Beach... Or WaitingManor for that matter, which sits about 200 metres from a bushland National Park that hasn't had a decent back-burn fire through it in far too long. The last time there was a serious bushfire here was in about 1993 & I remember sitting on the front verandah with a friend, looking up the road at the smoke & occasional flames leaping above houses much closer to the action than us. There was a guy about 100 metres up the road, standing on his roof & I said to my friend - "See that guy? If he suddenly jumps down & starts running, help me get my guitars in the car..." Fortunately, it didn't come to that & the only damage was to a couple of manicured lawns that bordered the bushland...
All these fires probably aren't doing our Paris Agreement target much good... & the smoke from the fires has gone out over the Pacific Ocean & can be seen (& smelled) in New Zealand. Not a product we should be particularly proud of exporting...
I have Wednesdays & Saturdays off, so it feels like I have 2 Fridays... & 3(!!!!!) Mondays. If that seems like cruel & unusual punishment, it certainly feels like it - on 2 of the 3 Mondays anyway. Confused yet? How do you think I feel... I'm not even sure what month we're in - Christmas was a couple of months ago, right? So why are all the shops full of tinsel & blaring Christmas music at me when all I want is a coffee?!?
The stream of job applications continues from both my PC & my phone & the stream of responses continues to be as non-existent as the water-management plan for the Murray-Darling river system. I have a vision of a junk mail folder at the recruitment agencies that gets automatically emptied of all my applications every couple of hours. It's not as visually vivid as a printer spewing out my CV & cover letter, straight into a shredder directly beneath it... but it's probably more technologically accurate!
According to the rest of the world's media, Sydney & most of New South Wales is burning!!! Well, certainly a lot of the state is on fire during a drought & the weather has been unseasonably hot, incredibly windy & dry as a nun's nasty, but there are really only a couple of big fires causing concern right now & none of them are in Sydney. We had a couple of small grass & scrub fires in the suburbs, but they were quickly contained & there has been no threat to the Opera House, Harbour Bridge, or Bondi Beach... Or WaitingManor for that matter, which sits about 200 metres from a bushland National Park that hasn't had a decent back-burn fire through it in far too long. The last time there was a serious bushfire here was in about 1993 & I remember sitting on the front verandah with a friend, looking up the road at the smoke & occasional flames leaping above houses much closer to the action than us. There was a guy about 100 metres up the road, standing on his roof & I said to my friend - "See that guy? If he suddenly jumps down & starts running, help me get my guitars in the car..." Fortunately, it didn't come to that & the only damage was to a couple of manicured lawns that bordered the bushland...
All these fires probably aren't doing our Paris Agreement target much good... & the smoke from the fires has gone out over the Pacific Ocean & can be seen (& smelled) in New Zealand. Not a product we should be particularly proud of exporting...
