Had Allan round today, that was cool. Hung out, read books, had some food, and stuff. Stuff is good. I plugged in the fridge the guys obtained for me, it works, so Allan helped me clean it up and de-stink it.

Start work properly tomorrow. I am a little nervous. But I suppose I'll be ok. Stick it out for six months or so, take some leave, head up north maybe. I suppose there's an Australia Post call center in Brisbane too - might even stay up there! See what happens at the time, I'm not making any concrete plans.

HOW DARE HE??? I MADE THINGS HARD FOR HIM? I WAS THE ONE WHO HAD TO FIND A NEW PLACE AND MOVE OUT WHILE HE JUST SAT ON HIS BUM! I'M THE ONE WHO HAS TO GET USED TO DOING EVERYTHING FOR MYSELF AND STOP RELYING ON SOMEBODY ELSE. I'M THE ONE WHO OWES ALL MY FRIENDS FAVOURS FOR THE HELP THEY GAVE IN THE MOVING PROCESS! ALL HE HAD TO DO WAS SIT ON HIS FAT ARSE (which he now informs me is under 100kg, as if I care) AND WATCH ME GO!

What a bloody night! I've had Derek on the phone trying to get in contact with Chris via me, and I've had Cossack on the phone threatening to murder Chris and Nads for fucking in his room. So there I was, standing outside Cossack's door too terrified to go in - in case of what I might find - yelling out and banging on the door. I went in once, I yelled "I'm coming in so stop screwing and get some clothes on" - I walked in, and there's Chris's belongings all over the place and I think Nadine's bag on the floor... and the bathroom door closed. So I scooted back downstairs, wrote a note, and went up again to put it under the door.

The note: To the effect of...

"Chris, call Derek ASAP. Also Cossack knows you are using his place as a love nest and intends to murder you when he gets home on Monday. He also says he's inflicting a lifetime party ban on you both. DIE!"

I took some live calls today! It was ok, I was pretty nervous but it turned out fairly simple. We were on the very very basic queries - postcodes, passports, and people leaving personal belongings in post offices! Silly folk. With regard to people - me and Mark both lost out when we found out that Patrick had a girlfriend, and I've discovered that Rin takes the same train as me. Sweet!

Right, that was a short and boring post. I wonder what I can do about that. Long and interesting sounds good to me. Always assuming I can find that much to write.

I already miss bloody TeleTech! Or rather, the people from TeleTech. Of course I was missing Craig for a while, but at least he was still in the same building, and I've seen Amanda a few times since she left. Now I have even more people to miss. Oh sure, the Australia Post people are fine, very nice, etc. But I doubt I'll ever find another Wayne, or another Dolly! Of course in many ways this is a good thing! I'll still catch up with Liny and Lina and possibly Payal and maybe some others too. I'll have to make an effort to get down to the Royal Melbourne Hotel every now and then, on Fridays. This is quite new for me - to actually have friends from work that I want to keep in touch with. I never cared so much about so many people before! I flatter myself in believing that they actually liked me too - also somewhat new.

Somehow no matter what happens in my life so far I can never quite forget high school. Fucking high school. Never was there a more wretched hive of scum and villiany. Never bring an intelligent child into a small country town. The prejudices and narrow vision there will kill it. 300-odd people all giving you hell for six years is not exactly a morale builder. Sure it was three years ago and I'm totally over it - but I can't deny that if left an impression, of course it did. Those years were my primary years of self-development, whatever happened during those years would have a profound effect on my character and my outlook on life. Without Sandi's strength and friendship I would never have made it through high school. I'd have buckled for sure, given in, lost. Sandi was the strongest person I knew. I remember when she slapped Laura - I don't remember why exactly, probably just for being Laura, that should be reason enough. I remember her pulling handfuls of somebody's hair out, and slamming someone's head with a locker door. I remember how neither of us was accepted, both for very different reasons. Thrown together in group and pair assignments in classes, left alone together in the schoolyard. Two weird little kids. Isn't that always the way?
I remember not so very long ago, sometime in the early stages of my relationship with Dave, he made some remark - I don't even know what it was, but it was something that reminded me of the cruel and hurtful remarks Tommy used to make, and I cried.

Training for Australia Post is going quite well so far. It's only been two days, but already I seem to know a surprising amount. Perhaps it's because Australia Post is such a well known company already, so maybe I'm remembering rather than learning.

My computer works again!!! Thanks Paul, for fixing it for me!
However the new discovery is, it was not my boot drive that fucked up, it was in fact my storage drive. So I've just lost 14 gig of mp3's, 10 or so movies, every episode of Futurama, and shitloads of South Park. Oh, and my porn. All gone. I will choose to look at it in a positive light - it means I can start all over again and download only things that I actually want. I will end up with quality, not necessarily quantity. Although having over 3000 songs on my computer was quite impressive, most of them were crap. I have some Whitlams and some Ben Harper downloading at the moment. Slowly. Good old dial-up.

I need to create a list of people I want to keep in contact with. If I don't write them all down, I am sure I will forget all their surnames and therefore be unable to find them!

At Bohuler's place I am. Waiting for wedding time to roll around - his brother is getting married today, and acting surprisingly calm about the whole thing. So naturally I've taken over the computer with minimum fuss and decided to blog.

More about the Australia Post job: It's permanent, as opposed to the contract I've been on for the last six months at TeleTech, so much more job security and stuff. It's paying 32k + super, whatever that comes out to - probably about 33k or something. It's on Lonsdale St in the city, so I can still catch up with the old TeleTech crowd - and I fully intend to, as life without Liny, Wayne, Jess, and Ria, would be unacceptably boring. The Royal Melbourne Hotel will still be there, packed full of TeleTech people and me of course. I think my hours will be from midday to eight pm or something of that sort, which is fine by me - I am very much a late night person and I don't like mornings! The first week is induction, or training, and I'm faily sure that's nine to five-ish. Sweet.

The Story So Far:
I was ill on Tuesday and stayed home (or rather, at Cossack's place). During this time I idly browsed Seek and equally idly applied for a couple of jobs. Somehow I ended up with a new job. I start at Australia Post on Monday, in their inbound customer service call center.

I am once again blogging at Cossack's as my computer is still buggered - that is to say, I've been too lazy to get a new HDD, re-install windows, and ensure all my music and porn is still intact on HDD #2.

I read in Melbourne's gossip rag MX a few days ago that Holly Valance can't stand her own music. She immediately rose significantly in my opinion. I can't stand her music either.

The reason for the lack of updates: My computer is buggered.

Quotable Quote of A Few Days Ago:
Wayne: What's wrong with my dangly?

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Tuna Burgers
Don't ask me for exact measurements... as much as you want!

1 tin tuna
tomato sauce
mayonaise
pepper
lemon juice

Mix ingredients well - taste to see if you need any more of something! Spoon some of mixture into a bread roll. Wrap roll in absorbant paper towel. Microwave for 45 seconds.

Bloody beautiful.

I have developed a sudden fixation on tea. Specifically green tea, but I enjoyed some black tea at work today too. Blame my parents. They kept feeding me herbal tea thingies while I was at their place and I found myself enjoying it. I have been told it's also quite good for a person. I find it refreshing and energising. I think my breakfast from now on will be a cup of green tea and a banana. Those bacon and egg sandwiches weren't doing my waistline any favours!

Lovely lovely public holiday! Lovely day off work, sitting at Cossack's, doing just about exactly nothing! Bless the Melbourne Cup for this lovely lovely holiday in the middle of the week!

It has been a very nice day! Excellent weather, with a top of 24 and a low of something not really low at all. Sunshine and happiness!

Yes, I have had far too much sugar today. This is not a good thing right now, as I need to be getting out of bed in a little over six hours, and I haven't even gotten in bed yet!

I suppose I'd better go and do that.

Hey Craig, are you still reading this? HI!!!

I have just returned from a very nice weekend in Euroa with my parents. It was Wool Week but that's just a coincidence. I was there because my mother asked me to be. Anyway, it was good, I caught up with Sandra and some other folk. Very nice to be back in Euroa on my own - no Dave means no rush to get back to Melbourne, and means more time for me with my parents and friends.

Anyway, it's late and I'm tired. Bed!