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Apr. 5th, 2008 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
llywelaHeard back from two of last week's interviews yesterday, both in the negative.
#1 went to an internal candidate. The woman who called sounded all kinds of embarrassed about having to admit that. "You interviewed really well, but this other girl already works here, so it would be a shame to have to tell her she missed out." Meh.
#3 was a lot more positive - it was the one I'd almost cancelled because I didn't think it was the right kind of job and that I was only making up the numbers, having been called so late, but apparently I was the second placed candidate and only missed out by a couple of points of experience. And they said that there could be another vacancy coming up in a few weeks, and could they contact me again then, please. I said yes, of course.
So, that's two down. One to hear from, although I'm really not hopeful at all of that one. And one interview still to go.
Feeling a little gloomy, and also rather angry at being put in this position. I've always worked, always paid my own way. Never taken any money off anyone, stayed out of debt...and now I'm facing unemployment through no fault of my own. So what does that teach me? Not to be loyal if I find myself with a struggling organisation in the future? To jump ship at the first sign of trouble, rather than sticking it out to help pull things around?
Meh.
The season two finale of Torchwood aired last night. Wow. THEY BLEW UP MY CITY!! Explosions! All over town! I was like...MY HOUSE!!
ROFL
Ohhhh, but Tosh really kind of broke me. And Owen, which - you know, I really loathed Owen for the whole of the first season, and I still hate that his character was written that way to begin with because this season he's been so much more likeable and yet I've struggled to really care what happens to him because of that lingering dislike from season one. But it was a really good death, both him and Tosh, just the two of them come the end, talking each other through it, lamenting wasted opportunities and missed chances. I never, ever expected Torchwood to reduce me to a snivelling wreck, but Tosh really did achieve it with her heroic demise. Wow.
Plot holes galore, of course, because this is Torchwood, so there's always going to be lameness and cheese and overdramatics. Captain Jack buried alive beneath the city for nigh on 1900 years? And coming out the other end completely sane? Please. That part was ridiculous. And, as fond as I am of John Barrowman, he never convinces me when he tries to pull off heavy drama or intense sentiment.
Gwen was great, though, and I never thought I'd say that, either. Perfect combination of strength and self-doubt, taking charge because it had to be done, keeping everything and everyone together, trying to salvage whatever was possible from a dire situation. Yeah, Gwen did good. And I still love Rhys, ever the everyman.
I really appreciated that there were no deus ex machina saves, for once. Grey couldn't forgive Jack. Jack couldn't save Grey. Tosh couldn't save Owen. And no one could save Tosh. The show isn't often that honest.
I liked Captain John much better at the beginning when he was being randomly psychotic and borderline schizo than when he was suddenly good and helpful and on the right side. Evil insanity I have no problem with as a motive for just about anything in a show like this. But once he was being good and helping out I was all at sea, because I had no idea what his motivations really were, or what he wanted - who he was. I do have this need to understand how a character ticks in order to really appreciate them.
Oh yeah, and Ianto was in it, too.
So, overall, great stuff. A surprisingly powerful and moving season finale!
New Who tonight! Yay!
My little cat has finally figured out what the lap is for. However, she is only interested in sitting there when I am dripping wet, wrapped in a towel, trying to get dried and dressed of a morning. Just shoves herself on, all I WANT LOVE, GIVE ME CUDDLES, DAMMIT! And won't take no for an answer. There's nowt so stubborn as a cat!
#1 went to an internal candidate. The woman who called sounded all kinds of embarrassed about having to admit that. "You interviewed really well, but this other girl already works here, so it would be a shame to have to tell her she missed out." Meh.
#3 was a lot more positive - it was the one I'd almost cancelled because I didn't think it was the right kind of job and that I was only making up the numbers, having been called so late, but apparently I was the second placed candidate and only missed out by a couple of points of experience. And they said that there could be another vacancy coming up in a few weeks, and could they contact me again then, please. I said yes, of course.
So, that's two down. One to hear from, although I'm really not hopeful at all of that one. And one interview still to go.
Feeling a little gloomy, and also rather angry at being put in this position. I've always worked, always paid my own way. Never taken any money off anyone, stayed out of debt...and now I'm facing unemployment through no fault of my own. So what does that teach me? Not to be loyal if I find myself with a struggling organisation in the future? To jump ship at the first sign of trouble, rather than sticking it out to help pull things around?
Meh.
The season two finale of Torchwood aired last night. Wow. THEY BLEW UP MY CITY!! Explosions! All over town! I was like...MY HOUSE!!
ROFL
Ohhhh, but Tosh really kind of broke me. And Owen, which - you know, I really loathed Owen for the whole of the first season, and I still hate that his character was written that way to begin with because this season he's been so much more likeable and yet I've struggled to really care what happens to him because of that lingering dislike from season one. But it was a really good death, both him and Tosh, just the two of them come the end, talking each other through it, lamenting wasted opportunities and missed chances. I never, ever expected Torchwood to reduce me to a snivelling wreck, but Tosh really did achieve it with her heroic demise. Wow.
Plot holes galore, of course, because this is Torchwood, so there's always going to be lameness and cheese and overdramatics. Captain Jack buried alive beneath the city for nigh on 1900 years? And coming out the other end completely sane? Please. That part was ridiculous. And, as fond as I am of John Barrowman, he never convinces me when he tries to pull off heavy drama or intense sentiment.
Gwen was great, though, and I never thought I'd say that, either. Perfect combination of strength and self-doubt, taking charge because it had to be done, keeping everything and everyone together, trying to salvage whatever was possible from a dire situation. Yeah, Gwen did good. And I still love Rhys, ever the everyman.
I really appreciated that there were no deus ex machina saves, for once. Grey couldn't forgive Jack. Jack couldn't save Grey. Tosh couldn't save Owen. And no one could save Tosh. The show isn't often that honest.
I liked Captain John much better at the beginning when he was being randomly psychotic and borderline schizo than when he was suddenly good and helpful and on the right side. Evil insanity I have no problem with as a motive for just about anything in a show like this. But once he was being good and helping out I was all at sea, because I had no idea what his motivations really were, or what he wanted - who he was. I do have this need to understand how a character ticks in order to really appreciate them.
Oh yeah, and Ianto was in it, too.
So, overall, great stuff. A surprisingly powerful and moving season finale!
New Who tonight! Yay!
My little cat has finally figured out what the lap is for. However, she is only interested in sitting there when I am dripping wet, wrapped in a towel, trying to get dried and dressed of a morning. Just shoves herself on, all I WANT LOVE, GIVE ME CUDDLES, DAMMIT! And won't take no for an answer. There's nowt so stubborn as a cat!
