so, we bought a car yesterday. to celebrate our newfound freedom, we will be going out to glengarriff tomorrow for some hill-walking with some people from tom’s work. and hopefully the weather will be nice on sunday as well and we can do a little exploring on our own. glengarriff is really lovely…lots of big [...]
so, I’ve started working at a call center here in cork, and today is the first day we are going to be put on the phones. we had been training all last week, and all of the beginning of this week, and we start calling in half an hour. I am somewhat ambivalent about it, [...]
this site has now got a more permentant home. more news soon… here are our pictures from greece and some family pictures.
I think that I’ve had it wrong and that I am not the one with the fishing pole, but rather I am a fish trying to be caught. And the fishers pulled me up, had a look, and decided I was too scrawny and threw meback. must be atastierlookingfish. (apologiesforthe sporadicspacing.thespacebardoesn’tworkonthispubliccomputer)
So I finally got a nibble, which is nice because I was starting to wonder if anybody was actually reading my resumes or if they were going straight into the bin. But they are interested, and I will go tomorrow to the employment agency and convince them to hire me. It’s a 6 month contract [...]
The job hunt has officially begun. Surrounded by classified job ads, bank brochures, employment agency printouts and drafts of my CV, I feel a bit like I am back at school, working at some end of term project or essay. I do feel like I’m getting somewhere even though I haven’t had any responses yet [...]
I’ve started work at the 4c center and it all seems to be going ok so far. I am yet to really find my direction, but am sure I will end up on one soon enough. Our apartment, or flat as they’re called over here, is nice and also close by to most of what [...]
here is a post from last weekend that I wrote but didn’t get a chance to post. ~~~~ Oh the humidity! We finally arrived in Ireland on Wednesday the 24th, after a quick day in London. We met and went for a few pints with some friends of Tom’s that live on the same road. [...]
