Sunday, December 10, 2006

A mish-mash of facts

I feel the need to clarify my working position, as I seem to have confused people. I do not have a job. I was offered a job, accepted it, then thought better of it and quit on the morning of my first day (yeah, they love me there...). I am working temp reception and admin, which means that one of my various temp agencies (I'm with about three hundred now) calls me when they have work. Temp work can vary from a year's work, a month's, a week's or, in most of my recent jobs, a day's. I have worked three days in the last four weeks :(

However, I am enjoying drinking wine on my balcony, a book in hand... I am just cutting into my travel funds to pay for my wine, which is bad.

Considering the threat to my wine supplies, I was hoping to win the enormous kitty in our post-Bond poker game on Friday. Alas, this was not to be. But Nick did win, so he bought me dinner on Saturday. Yay!

Also yay was the fact that we got a few of our friends out to swing dancing at Speigeltent this week. Scatpack, including Nick's and my teachers Noni and Josh, performed, and despite being 37 degrees outside, god only knows how much hotter inside, the afternoon was stacks of fun. Sai has already taken a few swing classes following his previous Sing at Speigel outings with us, and now Paul and Deb are expressing an interest. As a result, we may get a gang together at the CBD location over summer. Yay!

I'm too scared to go outside right now. Last time I was out (a few hours ago) it was supposedly 41 degrees. The smoke haze from the bush fires means there's no direct, piercing sun, but instead the smoke is like a blanket, holding the heat in. It's quite intense, although I imagine it's far worse for the many people affected by the actual fires, not just the smoke.

And to finish on a random note, today I made apple and strawberry pies, and they were yum. That's all!

2 comments:

  1. Yay for swing dancing! Sorry to hear about the bushfires. That would be awful. I remember hot days and I am glad that they are behind us now.

    Take care!

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  2. I want strawberry and apple pie!

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