First day at my new job

I just had my first day at my new job and let me tell you, I have landed the most amazing job. Not only is the food cheap and are the chairs comfy, the people are also really nice and fun and I started together with another girl, which means she and I are now workbuddies. I am a lot less scared of the job now I realise how awesome it is. Got me a whole load of benefits and I'm just very excited about everything. The fact that we ended the day by playing a (not yet released) game on the motion player for an hour and a half because we got through the training so quickly sure didn't hurt!

Update: flat

I recalculated my money and I probably won't be able to move house until end of July. Not too big a worry, though. I first want to pay off my debts before embarking on moving. Also, now I can combine my housewarming party with my birthday party!

Top Three Thursday

With Blogger being down for quite a while, I was really tempted to sort of let this blog wither down and stop writing at all on here. I've recently starting a new blog (www.shredinaglassbowl.wordpress.com) and it seems that I am enjoying it there far more. I'm yet to decide about the future of this blog, but for now, there will be less posts on here. However, I'm going to try and keep up the Top Three Thursdays!

1) I got the job!

Yes, yes, yes, I actually got the job! From the 31st of May onwards, I'll be an employee of Sony Playstation and more precisely a localisation tester. I'll be checking whether the Dutch translation provided is correct (aka, I'm proofreading the games). I'm getting paid a nice salary for it, getting lots of benefits and bonuses, so I'm pretty chuffed. On top of that, it means I'll probably finally be able to move out of this house and into my own little flat! I'll be starting flathunting at the start of next week :-)

2) Free time

With the sudden change of getting a job, my bumming-around-the-house-doing-nothing has suddenly changed to waiting-for-my-job-to-start. This means that what I formerly experienced as wasting my life has now become a bit of a holiday. Therefore, I'm doing whatever I like! Yesterday I celebrated getting my job with two of my close friends, we went for a MacDonald's and then bowling, it was really fun! I also won the second round, but I was using bumpers, so my friends say I was cheating (but I don't think I was). Today the sun is out, so I'm gonna go for a wander around with one of my friends and then tonight I'm gonna participate in a free Advanced Creative Writing workshop. Very much looking forward to that!

3) Moving on

Like I said, now that I'll be earning some good money, I'm looking forward to moving to my own place. I've already started collecting some furniture. One of my close friends moved back home to America in September and put all his stuff he couldn't take at our friends's, and now he's finally decided what he wants of it and the rest of it has been distributed amongst us. Therefore, I now own a double duvet + covers + pillows! I already had a really, really nice goosefeather single duvet which I am continuing to use, but when I want to curl up on the sofa or people are staying over, I'll have a duvet to spare! I'm also getting a television tomorrow, courtesy of someone I don't even know, but who's a friend of a friend and had a television to spare. My friend is going to help me pick it up tomorrow and then I'll have my own television for my new place! Wootwoot! I'm really excited about moving out and I hope it's going to happen when I am planning (start of July), otherwise I'm going to be very disappointed!

I've got the job!

Top Three Thursday

This week a top three of less happy things and more impactful things.

(1) Visitor

An old friend came to visit last weekend. It was tumultuous, overpowering, emotionally draining and it taught me a lot. I'm not going to go into details, but I got to know myself a little better and learned what really matters to me. Learned to accept, learned to let go, learned to put other before myself and myself before others. And now I'm in peace, more or less. At least, I don't have the urge to talk about it with people, which means it's not raging in my mind all the time. Progress.

(2) Job

I went for my second interview with Playstation today. The interview went well, I think, but as it ended I learned that there are two or three other candidates flying in from their homecountry (be it the Netherlands or Belgium) to apply for the job. So the pressure is on, I suppose. I also won't hear whether I got the job or not for another two or three weeks because of the other candidates' interviews. More stress. As I walked him through the slight rain, crossed the park of Wavertree playground, I saw the vastness of it, the houses rounded up around the trees, the sky above me. The wind was blowing through my hair, I felt the seabreeze on my lips and I just sank down. Sat there, for a few minutes. I became calm in the knowledge that this is where I belong. I cannot leave Liverpool. I'll start looking for more jobs tomorrow.

(3) Flat

I've been looking at possible flats in the area of where I work. Found some I would like to go take a look at, but first I need to know whether I get the job or not. Looking forward to having my own place. You can only live with housemates for so long before you start longing for your own place, with or without a family.
Besides, I also want a pet. Fish, guinea pig, rat or cat. Not a dog, though.

The Wicked Witch is dead

I woke up this morning to my housemate telling me "Did you hear? Osama has been killed!". As I had only just woken up, it took a while before it sank in. I logged on to facebook and lo and behold, everyone was of course talking about it. I skipped through the fairly neutral statuses of most Europeans until I hit the jackpot: an American friend of mine who had posted six statuses in about half an hour, all rejoicing about how Osama had been killed, what a triumph, how she was drinking champagne in a American-flag-printed t-shirt while chanting U-S-A! and how she felt America must now feel how Munchkinland felt when they announced that "the Witch is dead".

I felt sick.

Does America really think that by killing Osama, terrorism is all of a sudden going to disappear from this world? Kill the frontman, kill the network? Because the last few years must have shown them that it isn't just Osama saying "oh, let's fly in those towers", making one executive decision, and boom, the whole world changes. In the real world, evil isn't simply rooted out by taking out the frontman.

I see it this way: Either killing Osama has no effect whatsoever, as he is merely a frontman and there are more than enough other to take his place, or killing Osama has a massive impact, as he is the leader, and terror attacks on the US will only get worse. Revenge is a bitch, right?

Either way, whatever the US were trying to accomplish by this (A power vacuum that leaves Al Quaida in shambles? A magic fix to all evil in the world?), the only thing that will come from this is a positive election result from Obama. Cos no matter how much the Americans might have hated Obama in the last couple of years, nothing can touch him now, cos hey, the With is dead.