UK Watercooler 32: Fall Into The Meaning Gap

Microsoft are notorious for multiple interviews.

DOS for a while was "Pale and Precious", but I reckon now it's "Jackie". Or maybe "albertBrown". oh, maybe "your gold dress". Yeah. That one.

OK, I give up, I'm going to have to go to Boots and get something for this headache.

Had to be done:

Psonic Pollspot! It's the DUKES OF STRATOSPHEAR POLL with your atom bomb!

Nice one. You're My Drug is the Byrds one that I was trying to remember. The Lennonish Collidascope is also good.

what could they ask me in this third interview then eh? Suggestions pls.

What your favourite Dukes of Stratosphear track is

Mole from the Ministry, i think, although I don't remember Psonic Psunspot enough to say for sure.

The only third interview I ever had, it was mainly me asking them questions, and getting to meet all the people that I would be working with, in order to ascertain whether I got on with them, and could work with them or not.

The problem was, even though the answer was a resounding yes - within a year they were all sacked, made redundant or left.

Just remember that you are interviewing them as much as they are you.

My headache hasn't gone, and now I have a stomach ache from the ibuprofen. Can't win. :-(

Is this what my life has come to? I'm temping at a job I can't stand, for a boss who ignores me, and wasting my entire day on a messageboard where I'm almost universally reviled because I have nothing else to do and nowhere else to go and no one else to talk to.

Apart from the temping bit, that sounds almost like me!

Is this what my life has come to? I'm temping at a job I can't stand, for a boss who ignores me, and wasting my entire day on a messageboard where I'm almost universally reviled because I have nothing else to do and nowhere else to go and no one else to talk to.

fixed

Sorry, Mark H, outside of this thread, I pretty much am.

I understand why, but that doesn't make it any easier to deal with when you're feeling down.

Two more weeks. I have just been hearing the woman who sits next to me on the phone, and she sounds frustrated. She's here for a year, which would make me slit my wrists.

I've now got a plus one for Diamanda, and no one to take.

Anyone? Obviously this would have been a perfect occasion for Kerr to check her out, if he lived anywhere near London. Ah well.

I thought Tom D might've been a fan. I really need to hear some of her stuff.

Never heard her. Seems a bit ooh-look-at-me-I'm-spooky for my taste.

I'm still unsure of your taste. What the hell do you like? hehe

There is no such thing as taste!

Whoops, sorry, went a bit Maggie Thatcher there for a moment.

Now that is someone who is universally reviled.

If ever you're feeling down just say to yourself "thank fuck I'm not maggie thatcher"

She is far from "universally reviled"

...and even she could get a freakin' date for the opera. :-(

I like Diamanda Galas. Unfortunately I am not in London.

Well, I finally have something to do. But it's like pulling teeth to get it around here. :-(

Information only seems to come out in dribs and drabs - it would have been so much more helpful if everything had been told to me, in total, at the beginning of this wretched assignment.

lots of people being laid off or whatever in mysterious circumstances here - inc someone in the Marketing section of our division and I wasn't even told!!! When i asked why the reply was "Don't ask".

Hello, new world economic collapse that is going to make the Great Depression look like a tiny recession. :-(

We're all fucked, let's dance on the backs of the unemployed. Oh wait, that's me in two weeks. Even more fucked. Pointless, pointless, pointless.

I'm sorry, I don't know what's got into me today.

Well, I do know. But I shouldn't take it out on this thead. :-(

My head's gone to pieces and my concentration is gone. I can't think how to do any of the things I need to do.

I am stupid, I should know by now, a headache with no reason that doesn't respond to any of the usual things is a sign that a vicious depression is in the post. :-(

And then the simplest things become impossible. Except I don't have to do simple things, I have to do quite complex caluculations that require holding several concepts in the head simultaneously, and my mind has turned to cream of wheat.

This is the catch 22 of depression - when you are most depressed, and feel most isolated, it's when you need other people the most. But it's when you are most depressed that you are at your most scary, and down-dragging, and other people are most nervous of being around you. Which only reinforces the isolation, and therefore the depression in a horrible cyclical spiral.

This is just awful.

going through exactly the same thing at the moment, my friend asked me to go around their's tomorrow night to cheer me up but I've had to decline because what's the point I'll just be mopey scary downey monster, and nobody needs that on a friday night.

feel y pain kate, heads up.

Awww dude, it'll be okay. If you can't do any more today then just go home and relax, it's not like they're clock-counting.

Thanks, Ste. It's still nice to be asked, though, isn't it? Right now I feel like a used car salesman trying to pawn off faulty goods if I even ask anyone to be around me.

It's not like I get to go home anyway. I have to go and review this show which I now wish I hadn't agreed to. But at least Diamanda Galas is angry shouting mad woman of angst and stuff so I don't have to be all "yay, life" and can sit and brood if I fancy.

Being reviled by the rest of ILX outside this thread, it is entirely possible, is a very good sign.

There is nothing like real problems in life to give you a bit of perspective on depression. But then again, Lost hasn't gone on hiatus yet.

There is nothing like real problems in life to give you a bit of perspective on depression.

Not necessarily true. "Real problems" can actually reinforce and deepen depression.

Though I suppose I'll find out if when this job ends, if I don't find another one, and my house gets reposessed and I end up a homeless bag lady on the street.

Well, at least I managed to turn my mind from cream of wheat into a finely tuned mathematical machine long enough to do one extremely complicated thing. Now I think I'm done for the day.

Have a good long weekend, everybody.

And you!

I've done mine own helicopter for my band:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2002/2360955330_f8decb90d7.jpg

How was everyone over Easter? Did you enjoy all that snow?

I spend the whole weekend sick in bed with the flu. :-(

Morning all, sorry to hear about the flu, I have learnt a valuable lesson about not trying to go drink for drink with my cousin and his wife.

Pls to produce stickers of the band logo, I want one for my laptop.

They are French, non? That way madness lies.

I spent most of the weekend in bed, watching videos. I watched Elizabeth, Chariots of Fire and, erm, Shaun of the Dead. Someone left out the wonderfully salient fact that my ex was not just playing a zombie but A HOMELESS STREET PERSON ZOMBIE!!! Ah, there is a god...

x-post, we are doing badges first, but I've got it as my wallpaper, against a 50% grey background, so it looks like it is flying.

No they are scousers.

I've started a thread about Chariots of Fire. Will I regret this?

What date did we say for next walking? I should get planning.

Also What to do in Oslo/Drammen when you are there.

12th April. The Saturday after my birthday.

Ask FMM for what to do in Oslo, she goes there a lot and knows lots of good stuff.

...or maybe not! Maybe no one remembers it.

Jazzmaster frenzy (sort of):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFz79SBnuk8

(dutch-indonesian beat group from 1963 play the theme to "the third man" on multiple jazzmasters! Great!)

Maybe not one fort his walk as a bit close to london and I think we wanted further into the chilterns but we should visit the Royal Standard of England, Britain's oldest pub, in Beaconsfield at some point.

I think I was reading about that last night - was it in the Thames book?

Multiple Jazzmasters... ooh...

That was a zither, not a jag! You mean this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNeUuQegG5Y&feature=related