Once on a donkey in Tunbridge Wells

My interview? Was seven minutes long. It started at five to two. I got back home at half past two.

I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF THAT'S GOOD OR BAD.

Not-edit: Okay, apparently it is, because I just got offered the job as I was writing this. Woohoo!

I HAVE AN INTERVIEW ON WEDNESDAY. AHHHH.

*huff*huff*huff*

At work, one of my jobs is to make sure we get up-to-date lists of offender's previous convictions from the police, since someone's current offence could be pretty innocuous, but there could be all sorts of things in their background. (FYI: I work for the Probation Service in the UK.)

Anyway, since this happens for every single offender who passes through our doors - including ones who just come to us for pre-sentence reports, and never actually end up under Probation supervision - I have now seen a lot of pre-cons.

Today, however, I was handed the pre-cons for an offender who had thirty-eight convictions for one hundred and thirty-six offences. That's more offences than I've seen on anyone else's pre-cons list, ever. (Not the most convictions, however. Since you can be charged with multiple offences at once, one conviction entry can have several offences listed on it - as evidenced by this guy! The most convictions I've ever seen was eighty-six.)

I love my job and I'm learning a lot, but I do not think I will ever be able to understand how someone can rack up that many offences. Sheesh.

( The enclosed was written on the 12th of September. I have not posted it until now due to laziness and forgetting I'd written it. )

Anyway! Moving on to the present time...

Today at work we had a staff/team meeting thing. I would not normally write about this, for staff meetings are not the most enthralling things in the world.

However, at each staff meeting there is a staff award. This staff award goes to a member of the team who has been nominated by another member of the team, for anything under the sun - no matter how big or small. If you think it's worth a nomination, send an email and the nomination is noted. Nominations are anonymous, and the winner is decided by the manager using some mystic criteria/on known only to herself.

Guess who won it this month. Your first two guesses don't count. XD

(BTW, guess who's also only been in post for eleven weeks. Pretty good going, huh?)

In case that wasn't obvious enough: THEY GAVE ME CHOCOLATES. MY ULTIMATE LOYALTY IS SECURED.

Aaaaaanywa. Imma gonna celebrate by playing Kingdom Hearts (again) and finding me some more Gokudera stuff now. Or any Gokudera stuff, because he is made of awesome. Mmm, Reborn. So full of hilarious, nonsensical genius.

Sooooo...

About the job interview I went to yesterday.

I got the job. XD

First of all, I have not been here for the last little while because my internet was a broken thing of broken. It was going slower than a 56kb modem, I tell you. I know this because on 56k, pages will actually finish loading.

Anyway.

Today, I have had a GOOD DAY.

First of all, I had an interview in the afternoon. While I have not yet heard about the job (duh, interview's only just finished), I did come out of the interview feeling like it had gone well and that I couldn't have done anything more to state my case. So, as job interviews go, that was pretty decent. Or at least not a catastrophic disaster.

And then. I came home.

And SMT: PERSONA 3 had arrived. A game which is half DATING SIM and half SUMMONING DEMONS by SHOOTING YOURSELF IN THE HEAD.

There is also fusion. Mm, fusion.

This game. Arhjfggjf. My joy is a boundless ocean.

Aaaaaand I still haven't finished playing SMT: Nocturne. Hush.

I have also created a new layout for Pharmakon which I am actually happy with. This is deeply unusual. I have a feeling this satisfaction will last long enough for me to get the site up and running, and then vacate the premises for parts unknown.

I shall now depart to enjoy my good mood - and my GAME - while it lasts. XD

The KH2 Demyx battle in Hollow Bastion is the most annoying boss battle ever. I died four times before I said "fuck this" and went to go level up to, ooh, about ten levels higher than I had been. And I still nearly died.

(Well, no, I didn't nearly die - I kept nearly failing his stupid little "defeat X water forms in X seconds" annoyance and then nearly dying from those effing geysers.)

The whole irritation of the battle nearly distracted me from the hilarious woobie that is Demyx talking to himself and attempting to play nice with the Keyblade Master. And also made me think that the whole "Demyx is not a good fighter" thing in Jiminy's Journal is really undeserved. This is my second playthrough, and when I played through the first time Demyx was the only boss to ever give me trouble. (On the understanding that I didn't fight Sephiroth or the paradox cups. Plot boss battles, I mean.)

KH2 is also a leetle bit of a broken record in terms of how it deals with situations. Any time there's something plot-related that Sora needs to get through, what do they do? Start up a scripted battle. It's getting really monotonous. The Dave told me about this when he was playing it, but I thought he was exaggerating.

In more general life terms, I am once again working, and have been for the past two weeks. Yay monies! On a more hilarious note, one of my new work colleagues has a surname that - I kid you not - is "Moar". This is the same place that has a project which abbreviates to "PWP" - and not only that, it is frequently referred to as the "PWP project". Sometimes I have difficulty stopping myself from giggling at the inadvertently inappropriate subcultural references.

Since I've got a fairly long journey into work, I've been ploughing through the various academic books I kept wanting to read and never getting round to. I still have a reasonable list that I want to sell, though, so I might stick some details up here once I get it sorted out.