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[highlyeccentric]

I'm apparently going to be a public servant.

Moving to Canberra next year to work for a govt. department which shall be henceforth known as the Misuse of Muggle Artefacts Office, because it's about as well known as that.

Lucy: can I bring the LOTR Warhammer bits and bobs to you in person? Or does that come under the heading of Weird People From The Internet?

~

Of course, all of this is provisional upon me actually signing the  acceptance forms. See how I have right here applications to go to France and teach English? Yeah. DECISIONS.

Comments

[eggs-maledict.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Better to be deciding between job options rather than frantically searching for one.

[daiskmeliadorn.livejournal.com]

OH MY GOD YOU'RE LEAVING ME ALBEIT FOR EXCITING ADVENTURES

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

I WAS GOING TO BE LEAVING YOU ANYWAY ALTHOUGH I WAS NOT GOING TO HAVE EXCITING ADVENTURES IN NEWCASTLE.

[daiskmeliadorn.livejournal.com]

oh. fair enough then.

canberra's more fun to visit than newie - all those dykey librarians. sigh :)

congrats! it sounds like you're leaning towards taking it? tell me more about it??

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

There are dykey librarians in Canberra? *Considering look of speculation*

I... yeah, I think I'm going to take it, because *actual job with actual money* trumps random English teaching thing overseas. Actual job with actual money means saving up for grad school, which is useful. Also in Canberra I can take evening classes in German.

Bog-standard grad job for bog-standard govt department... Hopefully I'll get to some research work...

[daiskmeliadorn.livejournal.com]

Bog-standard grad job for bog-standard govt department...
stop being so negative about it! i'm more excited and it's not even me with the job. :P what bog-standard department damnit? I NEED TO KNOW DETAILS.

and hell yes there's dykey librarians! they are what got me through those hours and hours of sitting in the frikkin NLA during honours. i think all the librarians there were dykes. even the men.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

*considers* I do not know what my opinion on dykey librarians is. But I shall investigate and get back to you!

[areyoustrange.livejournal.com]

Oooh, Candeblabra. Is it a level 4 graduate position-y thing?

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

I believe so, yes.

[anachronisma.livejournal.com]

Congrats! :D :D

I was pretty excited when I got my job(s) too and it looks like I might get a third one... working for the school is such a convenient way to make money. (I tutor history & English, am a student tech assistant, and might start grading HTML assignments next semester for my HTML teacher... woohoo!) Except I'll be out of a job when I leave this school in, oh, 1 semester. :( On to a bigger school and no job.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Thanks :D

Ooh, how do you get to be a first-year and tutoring? That's pretty nifty. Or do you mean private tutoring (as opposed to class-tutoring... maybe there's a different name for that sort of tutor in the states...)?

Heh, enjoy your jobs while you have 'em, and they'll stand you in good stead for getting jobs later on :).

[anachronisma.livejournal.com]

I'm technically in my second year (and this is my 4th semester, I took summer classes) and the way my school works is we have something called a Peer Tutoring Center. Any class I took and passed with a B or higher I'm allowed to tutor in, if a teacher will vouch for me. I'm attending a small community college (first 2 years of university, with the reward being an associates degree) so it's a bit different than maybe larger universities do things.

Well I hope people will look at my thus far feeble career and go "huh, she's worked in a museum/tutored people/has computer experience, let's give her scholarships/internships/a job!". One can only hope...

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Ahaha, I *see*.

Also, wait, I should've known you were in second year: two-year and then transfer, yes? I read enough of Dean Dad's blog to know that much about CCs.

[anachronisma.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Two years, then transfer. I'm hoping to get into William and Mary (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_of_William_and_Mary), which offers a "guarantee transfer" program for Virginia Community College students if you get an associates degree and meet certain requirements at the school you're at. One of the reasons it's my #1 pick is because it has a study abroad programme with University of Nottingham, which I really want to look into as it's somewhere I'm thinking about for like... my PhD.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

Coooool... Good luck :D:D

[anachronisma.livejournal.com]

Haha I'll need it! A lot of it depends on my GPA. If I do well this next semester (doing well: not more than 1 B for the semester) I'm probably a shoo-in. If I don't do well I'll have to start pulling my hair out and flailing and freaking.

[owlfish]

Congratulations! On a sample of two people, this seems to be a popular choice for Australians after they finish various degrees.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

It is. We have a behemoth public service... but the jobs are pretty competitive to get into :).

[xxlucyferxx.livejournal.com]

See, the thing is, inept, I've got you all sorted out. I know full well that this Gay-Smut-Addicted Medievalist Thing you have going on is a trap so that you can lure me (and any other teenage girls unfortunate enough to stumble across your path) into meeting you in person so that you can perform unspeakable acts of violent sadism on us. Game's up. You might as well just admit that you're an internet creeper.

If you come to Canberra, you have to meet up with me. And put up with my social awkwardness for as long as you can bear it.

Congratulations on the job, though! My friend and I invaded one of those government departments, once. We got kicked out by security. It was pretty fun.

Before you jump to any hasty decisions, though, there are some Things You Should Probably Know About Life In Canberra:
1. The public transport services are run by rampant psychopaths who get their kicks out of running highschool students late for their exams.
2. If you meet someone on the street, there is a 99% chance that they are a public servant, married to a public servant, or the offspring of a public servant(s).
3. Our CD stores are really badly stocked.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

HAH I THINK NOT. I think *you* are Weird People *I* meet on the internet, with your emo ways and your slash writing and so on. But, well, your parents might not know that you're the dangerous one in this equation. *Mine* were weird about me meeting up with LOTR fans when I was... eighteen.

If you come to Canberra, you have to meet up with me. And put up with my social awkwardness for as long as you can bear it.

I'm really quite good with putting up with social awkwardness, I promise. Ask phrasemuffin, or... pretty much anyone. ALL MY FRIENDS ARE SOCIALLY AWKWARD. And they wonder why I'm odd...

1. Sounds like they're in cahoots with Sydney Buses, then. Also, if I weren't in Canberra I would be living at home, where there IS NO PUBLIC TRANSPORT. Thirdly I have and love my bicycle.
2. So I've heard. Canberra exists as a place to store all the public servants where they won't bother real people.
3. See the previous comment about where I would be living if not in Canberra.

[(Anonymous)]

also, public transport ridiculously expensive. $3 TO GO ANYWHERE. Great if you want to go far, but if you want to go, say, from Yarralumla to Curtin, that's a lot of money.

This is, I have decided, because they assume everyone has a car or can afford taxis.

I know it'll be a better system than, say, newie, but it's supposed to be Our Nation's Capital, damn it. There are some things more important that neat circles!

That said, some bits are quite nice. And it's cheaper by far than sydney for livings and what not.
XX, pix.
P.S. my gentleman friend grew up there. hence etc.

[ineptshieldmaid.livejournal.com]

AHAHA if I move to Canberra we'll have two thirds of our mod team there. We should come up with some special Canberra-themed prompts.

[phrasemuffin.livejournal.com]

Yay for jobage! Also, yay for jobage that makes you think you are, in fact, not a muggle at all! :D

Furthermore, and on a serious note, while you will undoubtedly require many a hot beverage down there in the Antarctica place (and also probably thermal underwears... hmm, that gives me thoughts: underwear of thermal nature that heats you by running tea around your body in specially designed tubes. YAY!), but please don't replace me with another fabulous gay man who likes to have tea and/or hot chocolate. Unless, of course, his name is *not* David, and he doesn't actually live in Canberra. Those are my terms of your employment, Missy.

[highlyeccentric.livejournal.com]

No one ever replaces you, O David. I promise ;).