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04:55 / 10.05.07

and goodest of luck to you for sunday, too, madame!

my i/v went ok - i got a brain phase on the first question but the panel were lovely (so will be lovely to work with!) and got me back on track, whence i think i put myself forward in a good light with strong claims... will know 'soon' [public service speak for 'hopefully inside three weeks']

go everyone... talk hard!

20:32 / 21.05.07

Wish me luck. Exams are tomorrow! I am frazzled, alas, but I should be fine but luck, luck, luck, luck is needed.

20:51 / 21.05.07

All the luck I can spare, going straight your way, ARFT, just like Intacto but in reverse. Really, good luck!

10:32 / 22.05.07

Luck.

20:08 / 22.05.07

I got my part-time job!

So far I have been paid to:

a/ Watch 'This is England'
b/ Watch 'Being Jane'
c/ See a wicked little folk band called Mawkin.

I also have to check fire exits and escape routes and tear tickets and show people to the loo and generally pose about in the aisles with a walkie-talkie and a torch and Not Let People In Once Shows Have Started. Ha! The power.

But the main thing I have to do is look after the people who have come to do entertaining things, and since looking after them means being in the same room as them it means I get to watch what they do.

In the summer there are a whole load of outdoor gigs on in the ampitheatre and I have to work them. Bother.

It's wicked. I am so lucky.

23:45 / 22.05.07

barbelith failed me... didn't get the gig.

i renounce you all!

ok, i have breathed in, out, and now de-renounce you all! phew. but am feeling low - is the right thread for that, or is there a 'i feel crap and i don't care who knows' thread?

08:40 / 23.05.07

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Janean Patience

05:12 / 02.07.07

Off I go on my fourth driving test, expecting to fail. Wish me luck?

Equal Opportunity Disaster

05:46 / 02.07.07

In two days I start my job full-time with a new crew. Wish me luck?!

Equal Opportunity Disaster

05:48 / 02.07.07

g'luck patience!!

In two days I start my job full-time with a new crew. Wish me luck?!

Janean Patience

07:25 / 02.07.07

Good luck to you, EOps Disaster. Sadly I failed the test due to an accumulation of minor errors. Personally I don't think the guy was in the mood to pass me. I'd already begun to think fifth time would be my time before this happened, but thanks...

All Acting Regiment

10:11 / 02.07.07

I think I've just got work. I want to pass on the good luck to anyone else who needs it.

Equal Opportunity Disaster

00:55 / 04.07.07

arg, too bad on your drivers test... im often amazed at how the intructors mood alters the results of those tests... I know some people who definatly should NOT have a liscense but were able to make the instructor laugh...bah!

My first day turned out pretty good!

08:49 / 04.07.07

While I'm sure the subjectivity of driving individual examiners does affect results from time to time, I'm actually always surprised how happy people are to ascribe test results they don't like to it. I'm also surprised by people's willingness to claim knowledge of the emotional states to their examiners.

I've failed three driving tests. I drove well on all of them, but committed at least one major fault every time. Major faults are usually unambiguous, and shouldn't be too hard to recollect, and, if they can't be recollected the onness is on the examined to contest the result.
I also couldn't tell you what kind of mood any of my examiners were in, and I'm quite an empathic person. I mean, I've always been a little too obsessed with my own emotional state when it comes to driving test time.

Just my two-pennorth.

Janean Patience

09:30 / 04.07.07

While I'm sure the subjectivity of driving individual examiners does affect results from time to time, I'm actually always surprised how happy people are to ascribe test results they don't like to it. I'm also surprised by people's willingness to claim knowledge of the emotional states to their examiners.

My previous three fails were all because of serious faults and all my own fault. I had no argument. This one was weird. I failed because I had 17 minor faults and you're only allowed 16. It wasn't a bad drive and I don't think I deserved that many errors. About 10 minutes into the test the mood changed in the car, the examiner who'd previously been chatting to me fell silent and sombre, and for every action his arm moved across the clipboard and hatched another box. Even simple stuff, turning left on a quiet junction with nobody around when I'd checked every direction, got a minor error. It honestly felt like he'd decided to mark aggressively, as my instructor said afterwards, or decided that I shouldn't pass but because I was avoiding serious errors he'd have to do the job with minors. It wasn't a surprise when I failed not because I'd done badly but because of the grim silence in the car.

I can't imagine why the guy would have an axe to grind, I've been out with him before and he was fine, but it was an odd experience which is why I mentioned his apparent emotional state. Never mind. Next time etc.

09:35 / 04.07.07

Agh, wasn't really talking about your situation, just talkin' is all.

09:37 / 04.07.07

Primarily about EOP's post, which is, frankly, more than a little bizarre.

Janean Patience

09:39 / 04.07.07

Too much explanation from me, sorry. It's fresh in my mind. Driving tests are just an expensive, tedious bastard.

Jot Evil Rules During Weddings

02:37 / 05.07.07

I need a lot of luck for my huge test tomorrow. I think I might need some divine intervention too. Well I guess you can only help out by wishing me luck.

03:58 / 05.07.07

Definitely good luck, JerDW. The consistent repetition in my head of H Simpson's finest moments may actually have saved me from saying something aloud that would regrettably effect my employment, and I have you to thank for putting the meme firm in my grey matter.

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

15:36 / 05.07.07

Interview for a branch transfer that I really want in about an hour and a half. I have to trek out to a distant library branch that has nothing to do with the branch that I want, have the interview, and then boot it back into town for a shift at yet another branch.

17:26 / 13.07.07

After much phone tag a date is set for my volunteer interview with the local Hospice after MONTHS of waiting. they are quite picky about their volunteers as they invest a huge amount of time and training into them and wish to protect their patients from becoming too attached to people who are unreliable.

I'm a bit nail bitey over the fact that I'm a tattoo'd freak and while this is no longer an issue in my primary work industry I suspect some of the patients/families may not be so worldly. Cloak mode must be engaged methinks...

Luckily I have a very nice grey dress Saturn's Nod gave me to wear for just this sort of purpose. I may have to purchase more light colored long frocks with attending light weight sweaters...

For the little old dementia patients waiting for me to read them the bible and talk to them about their concerns I'm willing to dress as non threatening as possible. Pink even.

17:36 / 13.07.07

Go you. A lot.

00:00 / 14.07.07

And XK, once they get used to you they'll look through the tattoos anyway. Sometimes I think people are less judgmental than we give them credit for...Good luck!

22:58 / 23.07.07

I have an interview for teaching school coming up. I could really use some good wishes!!!

23:15 / 23.07.07

*OOGA BOOGA WISH-POWERZ*

wish luck.

05:39 / 24.07.07

what chad said!

g'luck... and may it all be good!

Hallo, Paper Spaceboy

05:43 / 24.07.07

I wish luck and hope for all who need it.

15:36 / 24.07.07

I just sent a letter to my bank asking for full details of charges made to my account. This is the first step in me reclaiming my bank charges from the past few years. There are quite a few of them, so it's quite exciting to see how much i will get back.

Also, it's quite a good feeling to have actually got off my arse and done this after about a year of 'ooh, i should really do something about all the money they've taken off me'. A nice feeling to be a part of the zeigeist, too.

And if i get money back, that means i owe a little bit less! And if i owe a little bit less, i can buy nicer things! and Nice Things make me more complete!

Go team money-get-back, Go!

15:58 / 24.07.07

Hey Trampetunia,

doing this myself and so far, so positive. Claimed back quite a lot and within a fortnight they'd made me an offer (about 40% of my claim.)

Am writing back to say 'thanks, but no thanks - make me a better offer, why don'tcha.'

Did you calculate the interest, too? Handy calculation tool here. Added hundreds to my claim.

Good luck - go get 'em!

16:07 / 24.07.07

sorry, that should be will you calculate the interest?

You should.

Honestly, I'm so glad I did this - it's like a savings account I never knew I had! Just have to work out how far to push them before they decide it makes better sense for them to actually take me to court than pay out...

16:14 / 24.07.07

I have my interview with the local hospice this afternoon. I'm a bit nervous because I have to go to the head office a few towns over which involves a slightly strange drive and well...it's an interview.

My hair is currently a lovely shade of very dark blue in a twist and clip style. I shall be changing into a very nice long lilac frock with alight weight sweater option. ( not just tat coverage but air conditioning makes me cold!)

so slightly freakish yet demure armed with lovely refs to go see about helping out the sad old kitty cats who might be wanting the bible read to them while they get on with the process of dying.

wish me luck!

16:27 / 24.07.07

Just have to work out how far to push them before they decide it makes better sense for them to actually take me to court than pay out...

The banks have no interest at all in making a court case out of a demand; if a judgement were to be made against their favour, they'd be proper screwed. At the moment, bank charges are 'unlawful'; they don't want them to become 'illegal'.

And yeah, i'll be adding interest :-)

XK-Massive good luck with the interview. Kitty death needs much overseeing, and i reckon you got the love for it. Go get em!

16:35 / 24.07.07

That's what I had thought but I did hear of some bank - Lloyds ? - preparing a test case. The point will come when enough people are claiming back money that likely the bank has invested inaccessibly somewhere else that a court case running for years after appeals, will suit them better, regardless of precedents set.

Either way, we should be ok for the mo.

And all the very best for the interview, too, XK!

14:54 / 25.07.07

thanks everybody!

It went smashingly well with an invite to get into the next training course rather than wait in line like everybody else. seems my freaky talents are in high demand!

Plus a power outage in town this morning gave me the much needed time to fill out paper work and open book test forms AND have everything stamped by a notary that needed to be. Strangely enough the power came back on as soon as I had placed the phone call to say I had completed everything!

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