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On Employment.

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Good news, everybody!  I have a new job!  A part-time receptionist job with the Housing Industry Association's head office.  Huzzah!  I am very happy indeed.
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Ok, just a quick update to let you all know that I lost my job on Monday.  It was no surprise, really, the work I did had dried up as a result of the financial woes sweeping the planet.  I worked for a wholesaler who imports all his goods, so he kind of relies on the Aussie dollar not being so, well, crap.  And the Aussie dollar has taken quite a beating recently.  But I'm sure I'll find something new soon to at least keep me occupied until I find a better job.  It just sucks that I lost the job not because I was a bad worker, or through my boss' or government's financial mismanagement, but because a foreign government screwed up their economy.  

But it could be worse...I could live somewhere with no social security.
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On Bad Sushi

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I had some bad sushi.  It made me very sick.  Projectile vomiting spaghetti bolognese at 2am is not pleasant.  My carpet still smells.  I'm going to have to steam clean it.

My sentences are short and sweet.

Here is something I filched from X-Eevee's journal:
The Big Read reckons that the average adult has only read 6 of the top 100 books they've printed.
1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Underline those you intend to read.
3) Underline the books you love.
4) Strike out the books you have no intention of ever reading, or were forced to read at school and hated.
5) Reprint this list in your own blog so we can try and track down these people who've only read 6 and force books upon them

Here goes:

1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
4 The Harry Potter Series - JK Rowling
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
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6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulks
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller's Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli's Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid's Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones's Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte's Web - EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo
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I thought it about time I updated.  I've been pretty slack about keeping my journal updated lately. mea culpa

I graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours on the 17th of July.  It was a good day.  My parents flew up from Tassie, I got to wear the funny hat and the robes - very Harry Potterish. I should have taken my wand along!  I was a bit nervous about the walk accross stage to receive the certificate, but I managed not to fall down, which was good.

I was awarded Upper Second Class Honours, which is what I was expecting, but my overall grade was only 71%, which was disappointing, I was hoping to be a bit closer to 80%.  I read the two examiners' reports and I kind of wish I hadn't.  While most of the criticism was fair (at times I think that they forgot I had a word limit), the way the criticism was given by one of the examiners was not.  I was so angry after reading it that I developed a migraine and went to bed at 7.30 pm.  

The tone of the report was really blunt, and bordered on being offensive, at one point vaguely suggesting plagiarism.  You can imagine how I reacted to that.

The funny thing is, students doing honours are not meant to ever know who marks their theses, but I was told mine by the course convenor.  I told him that I had one 'mean' and one 'nice' examiner, so he told me who they were, I guess because he was one of them and wanted to figure out whether he was the 'mean' one or not! :lol:  I thought he was the 'nice' one, as he doesn't strike me as being capable of such bluntness, but my friend has him as her Honours supervisor and says that he is.

So, even though I have graduated, I'm still at uni, finishing off my Psychology degree, which should be done in November (fingers crossed).  Then I am planning to work for 6-12 months before maybe attempting a Masters degree.  Maybe do that Part-Time so I can work and study.  Universities I am looking at include University of Tasmania, the University of New England,  various N.Z unis and am searching for a Brisbane uni that offers Classics courses.  UTAS is top of the list right now, simply because I would like to go home for a few years, and Hobart is only a few hours away from where my family all live.  But we shall see.

Anyway, I recently turned 30 (although if anyone asks, I'm 21, ok?), and, as a gift, was taken to Queensland for a week and a bit to celebrate.  It was great!  I loved Brisbane and Stradbroke Island was just beautiful.  I saw whales and dolphins, and the weather was lovely.  It felt really weird swimming in the ocean in the middle of August, I can tell you.  And it was hilarious seeing Queenslanders all rugged up in jumpers on 21 degree days.  "Chilly day!" they'd say.  No, a chilly day is one where the temperature barely gets over 10 degrees.
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Okay, firstly, my apologies to anyone who was beginning to think I was dead.  I was simply busy with my thesis and the new job.  Plus, I just broke the modem at my house.

So, my thesis is finished.  Now I just have an exam to do and then my BArts is done.  I graduate on July 17th and my parents are coming up for the occasion.

Having to move.  Is stressing me out. 'Nuff said.

Crappiest journal ever.  More later.
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