I got the job, hooray!

Somehow I ended up in Bendigo for the night, god damn computers, now tomorrow is going to be hella rushed.

Had my interview yesterday, I thought it went pretty badly as I was really out of it when I went in there (I really have to learn to eat anything before I have interviews). The people were fairly nice and the office area I would be working it wouldn't be so bad, the place seemed pretty relaxed, which was strange considering the type of work that is going on there, I thought I'd see phones ringing off the hook and people screaming and running around because they just won't stop calling! Ok not really, but still it seemed alright. The interview itself was fairly standard although I got drilled on a lot of technical questions, and they were strange open ended tech support questions where there are no right or wrong answers which is a bit annoying. I rattled on with my answers for ages, which is always a bad thing, when I start rambling on in interviews I know I am only shooting myself in the foot, I've been pretty good with my grad interviews but now that I have a good job lined up in Sydney I just have no desire to put my best foot forward anymore at these other jobs interviews, I mean of course I want to do well and get the job etc. However I just don't put the same level of effort or get nearly as worked up about it.

Anyway I rate that interview a 5 out of 10 for myself. Here is hoping they still give me the job.

I find out Friday if I get it, then I start training Monday if I'm successful, talk about cutting it fine people!

Argh can't sleep, had to get up to go to the toilet and then decided I'd look up some stuff on the internets for my interview with the ISP goons tomorrow. It is the final interview so after this I will know if I have the job or not, currently I'd take or leave getting the job, take it cause I need to get some cashflow going and because I need to save for stuph, leave it cause I could do with some more time off, or perhaps even finding another job that doesn't involve phones, although I really don't mind phones, and I could stick it out until the end of the year I reckon, I just hear the horror stories about the whole jazz and it gets me a little down about the whole thing, but I think the only way I can decide is to do it myself (well again considering my old old job use to have a tech support over the phone component anyway).

Anyway, enough reading about ISP crap, back to bed, man I also need to pee again!

That is so unbelievable, sheesh.

I think I may have just completed my degree today.





:)

I just realised that my exam is tomorrow, not Tuesday like I have been saying for the last few weeks. WHAT THE HELL!??! How did I space on the date? Now i'm feeling all out of whack as I thought I had an extra day to prepare and now I realise I don't. This is the first time I have ever forgotten when a test/exam was, perhaps I am losing my marbles at the ripe old age of 26?

Sitting here doing some reading for my final exam, doesn't seem to really be sinking in, this is probably because I can't be bothered, I just have no love for the learning at the moment, guess tomorrow I'll have to get into gear.

Those jobs that I half heartedly applied for one of them I got a reply back from, it was the bese one out of all of them so that was nice, they called me about an hour before my exam on Thursday and did a phone interview (that really didn't help with my preparation for my exam! Another contributor to the poor performance maybe) and then the next day they called me and pretty much demand that I come down and do an interview in under 3 hours time, great. It ended up being a behavioural, role play and computer/typing test, I was feeling pretty out of it while I was there and the recruiter people didn't exactly inspire me to put on my 'A' grade interview game, but it all seemed pretty promising and she basically eluded to me to expect a call on Monday or Tuesday, I hope I do get a call back because I'd really like to earn some cashmoney for a while, even if I don't get to take an extended break after uni like I thought I would. If I do get a call back I have to do another intview with the actual manager lackey at the company, seriously I think it is all a bit much for the role I am going for, anyone could do it, I guess because the role is full time (well they call it "temp to perm", what a stupid term for it eh?) they need to be fairly careful, although I only plan to work there 5 to 6 months max, hope they don't get too pissed at me leaving! Although I would expect a role like this would have a lot of turnover in regards to staff so maybe not.

Anyway, I don't even have the job yet so I won't get too ahead of myself.

In other news, astro made me a delicious dinner tonight and it was quite awesome, if there was some more leftover now i'd be snacking on it, mmmmm. We had to raid the asian grocery close by to get supplies, I always like going to the AG with astro, we always seem to have fun there even when we are just buying crap for dinnah! Astro also has a new 'do' which looks just fantastic! Hooray for astro! :)

Anyway, might go to bed now.

Does anyone out there ever listen to music that you love and then all of a sudden picture how you would make a totally rad film clip for it? Most of the music I listen to don't have film clips, so like when I am listening to certain tracks I'll be half way through it and then all of a sudden my mind is dreaming up some film clip for it, the subjects, the story line of the clip, the different camera angles I'd use, close ups, long shots, half in and out shots, different types of film/camera use, lighting, exposure, filters, transitions, it all goes through my mind. Usually it has people I know or myself as the subject, or maybe a destination like a city or something and the time line being a certain part of the day/year.

I totally need to write my own song so I can come up with a film clip for it :)

Perhaps I am just crazy.

Supposedly, 0.9999 equals 1.

Anyway, I went to my exam, I'm not sure how I went, hopefully I passed, it was very hard and felt really long and was non stop writing. It was also extremely cold! I've had three exams in that room and they have always been really really cold!

I really hope I passed that exam, I'd hate to have to go back next semester and do another subject.

I so cannot be bothered studying anymore for my exam tomorrow, I feel a little bit better about it than I did yesterday, I still need to cover a bit so I'm not home and hosed, but I feel if I walked in there right now I could scrape a pass. I think if I do ok tomorrow I'll walk out in a pretty good mood, my last exam Marketing Law on Tuesday I don't even have to get 50% right to pass so it isn't a stress. Hopefully I'll walk out of my exam on Tuesday afternoon feeling very pleased that I have finished my double degree (providing I do alright tomorrow!), then it is time of a break and then looking for some sort of employment, I already sent a few half hearted applications to some places on seek on Monday but I don't really expect to hear back from any of them because all I really did was attach my resume :) , I'll get more serious about it in July.

My sister is doing good, she is starting to get a little worried about money and how her and her partner are going to pay the bills and such while she is recovering. Her recovery is going to be pretty slow and dangerous at her house, she lives in your typical Brisbane house which is raised (so plenty of stairs :/ ) and has polished floor boards, which are just fantastic to be on with crutches :\ . My parents are going to fly up on the weekend and see her and my mum will stay on for a week or so to help her out a bit. Hopefully maybe after that I can go up there and visit her if i'm not going to stress her out or hinder her recovery, I'd really like to!

Grr I am feeling really stressed and fed up with the world at the moment, so much for the good advice from my last post hey!

This god damn exam is going to kill me, this shit is a lot harder than I think it is.

I just found out tonight that my sister (the eldest one) just got out of surgery to fix a broken hip. Yeah pretty serious crap, not life threatening for sure but, something that can alter ones life forever, currently they have a rod of sorts with a plate, they are hoping some of the bone doesn't die off in her recovery otherwise she will need a total hip replacement, something which unfortunately when she gets older will not be able to avoid. Hopefully after exams if it is appeared, I can go visit her and help her out for maybe a week or so, I dunno what I can do to help her but I want to go and as long as I don't hinder her recovery in any way, I think that will be ok.

All the women in my family have had some really unfortunate health problems over the last few years, it makes me feel a bit sad as I thought a lot of our lives dramas were behind us, I guess it just goes to show that when life is quiet you really need to appreciate it more, when you have too much time to think about crap and get all depressed and whingy about stuff you should probably step back and realise that nothing is really wrong, and that life is pretty good, right now I look fondly back at this morning, yesterday, last week, and realise that I would prefer those days than what is being presented to me right now.

So basically this has thrown my plans of studying tonight, not like I've been doing much anyway, I've mostly spent this weekend drinking beer, giving people software and talking to the ones I love, I really need to step on the gas and get my head down and bum up, tomorrow this shall be done (hopefully).

This post has stopped me feeling depressed about things, now I remember why I blog about this crap!

Yeah my exam went pretty well, hardly had any sleep that night, woke up and felt a little tired but not totally dead, that was a good thing. Got to the exam with only one minute to spare, good sign, I hate being early to exams because the amount of stress that is in the air really rubs off on me and makes me start to worry about things, also people come up to me and ask me really remote questions related to the topic and I get all "wha?!". People need to realise that you don't need to know absolutely EVERYTHING about a subject to get a HD or whatever in a finance subject, just know you core topics really well and mostly understand the far reaching stuff and it is all cool.

Of course I can say this now in hindsight! Because everything I studied in my short period of time was on the exam, I really picked every topic right and didn't study any extra topics just in case they were on the exam, and it all worked out exactly how I thought it would, nice for that to happen for once! +5 Luck to serp!

So now i have a week to study for my next exam, it will be the hardest of the exams I have this semester as it gets pretty heavy on all these far out strategies for financial derivatives and so on, I'd also like to have a go at writing some essays for my marketing law exam as due to grad recruitment stuff I missed a lot of classes for that subject this semester and i'm really out of practice.

I'm also starting to think about what comes next, working, I don't really feel very excited about getting a job before moving to Sydney but it is necessary because I will need to by things like work clothes and I'll have the in inevitable moving expenses (like bond, stupid connection fees for utilities etc.) that won't be covered by my new work, suckz0rs.

I'd also like to save enough money that I wouldn't have to work through December and could try to have a bit of a holiday, nice idea but I'm not sure how that will turn out as December is always a big money drain month, we'll see.

I just finished my final assignment for my degree, what a nightmare. Now I have an exam tomorrow morning at 9am which I've hardly done any study for, what a nightmare.
Hopefully, I can do alright and pass, I've gotten pretty good marks throughout the semester for this subject and I feel like I have a pretty good understanding of most of the content. I'll study my arse off the rest of the night and we'll see how I go!

But first a shower!

Supposedly, this is 20 things people need to know how to do.

Includes shaving tips! :P

I'm always on the look out for shaving tips, although never when I'm actually in front of a computer that is connected to the Internet, so that is always a problem. However today I cam across this article and I think I might try some of what it says, read the comments too because some people have added in some interesting links. I dunno how long I'll stick to any change though, I am a shave in the shower guy and I've pretty much perfected the routine, although I am always trying to figure out a way to reduce the redness that appears around the sideburns and under the chin/neck area. Oh yeah, and the pimples that seem to pop up by the end of the day after I shave, however that could be more to do with the food I eat than anything else.

I was looking at trailers before I go to bed and I saw this one for District B13. The first sentence had the words 'Paris' and '2010' and I thought 'cool, a sci-fi movie', then I realised as I started the trailer that 2010 is only a few years away. This sucks! I don't want the year 2010 to roll around, that is going to ruin that beautiful equilbrium I have in my head of today being so '90s' and the year 2010 and beyond as being 'the future'.

Anyway, I thinking this B13 movie has been around for a while because I am pretty sure I posted a clip of the same traceur stuff in this trailer over a year ago. Anyway, stealing from what cat said about Tokyo Drift this will be a no brainer jaunt that will make serp want to learn how to do backflips and cartwheels and jump off 30 storey buildings and living without breaking my stride.

Why does this 'extreme makeover' show use a whole bunch of Starcraft navigation noises during its computer graphics transformation bits? Why do I know that they are Starcraft sound effects? I haven't played that game in years! How can I still have those sound effects so ingrained? :)

This is the time of year where serp stays awake at night procrastinating because he doesn't want to go to bed, and this is because he doesn't want tomorrow to come, because that means he has to do things like study for exams and finish of his last assignment. You are so silly serp.

Ok going to bed and I'm going to do stuff tomorrow.

I am in the midst of finishing my major software project thingy, my group members are really stressing out, I'll probably do that tomorrow. The software itself has to be ready on Monday morning, we are pretty far through it and don't have much coding to go, however at the moment I am doing a shitload of testing which is so time consuming and boring. The worst thing is that this project is done in oracle forms, which is so god damn flaky and bloaty it takes for ever to test crap because quite frankly you can sometimes do a process that will work the first time around and then just fails the second time around or something lame like that.

Doing this project reconfirms to myself why I didn't take a grad position at one of the high flying IT consultancy firms, because in the first 12 months I would be doing a LOT of testing or writing test plans! Or a lot of coding! Or a lot of annoying tech work which I don't really want to do anymore, so it makes me feel better that I can be in a more of a higher level sort of position which determines how projects are to be actually done instead of being in the trenches coding/testing the damn thing.

Anyway that is all, back to it for me.

Just do your homework serp! You are up to your last ever assignment at uni and you just refuse to not leave to the last minute!!! Just start you lazy barstard!!! I know it is hella boring but...

..!!

Today I had my last ever lecture/tut/lab of my undergraduate degree (if I pass everything) today, finishing a degree is so weird, you see it coming from a distance for such a long time and then all of a sudden it is pretty much over without much fanfare. Then it is on to the next thing I guess.

Still happy to be finishing :)