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Feb. 20th, 2004 12:54 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dennyI seem to have stopped posting on LJ for a while. Life sort of got so boring for a couple of weeks that I had nothing to say, and by the time things started happening again, I'd got out of the habit. I've also not been reading my friends page for a while - if anything earth-shattering has skipped my attention in the last few weeks, feel free to mention it in comments or by email and I'll go look.
As for what I've been up to lately... I've been playing Kings of Chaos, I'm ranked #5 in the whole world, whoopee. I had two job interviews last week, one at Fotango (which I mentioned here a while ago) which I didn't get, and one at state51 which I haven't heard back from yet, but would really really like. More than the Fotango one actually, having been to both places... state51 looked like a great place to work and is doing some fun and interesting stuff. I hope they get back to me with good news *crosses things*
I also had a phone interview today for a job working for Red Hat, but it's as a Technical Trainer, and I'm not really sure that's a career change I want to make. Nor is Guildford high on my list of places to move. If it wasn't such a well-known Linux company I wouldn't even be contemplating it, so I guess I'm probably going to say 'no' to them before that process moves much further. Whilst I'm not hugely enjoying being unemployed, I don't think taking the wrong job is going to help much in the medium to long term.
I've once again reached the end of all my available sources of credit, and have a huge stack of overdue unpaid credit card bills and missed loan payments. Well, tough shit, really. I'll pay them when I have some money, as per usual, along with the rampant fines and interest they apply in the meantime. I could probably pay one or two of them off with the amount I've paid in fines in the last few years - mostly just through disorganisation, and depression-fuelled apathy.
I spoke to my lawyer yesterday re: my insurance claim, nothing much has happened since the last (first) offer was turned down. The first medical report has just come back and all it really says is "is seriously injured, needs further assessment before anything can be said, come back in 18 months", so that's not really going to progress matters much. My lawyers are going to ask for another interim payment, but I suspect I might be pushing up against the limits of the other party's friendliness at this stage.
My next hospital apppointment is in three weeks, at which time if all has gone very well, I might be allowed to start trying to walk again. Here's hoping.
As for what I've been up to lately... I've been playing Kings of Chaos, I'm ranked #5 in the whole world, whoopee. I had two job interviews last week, one at Fotango (which I mentioned here a while ago) which I didn't get, and one at state51 which I haven't heard back from yet, but would really really like. More than the Fotango one actually, having been to both places... state51 looked like a great place to work and is doing some fun and interesting stuff. I hope they get back to me with good news *crosses things*
I also had a phone interview today for a job working for Red Hat, but it's as a Technical Trainer, and I'm not really sure that's a career change I want to make. Nor is Guildford high on my list of places to move. If it wasn't such a well-known Linux company I wouldn't even be contemplating it, so I guess I'm probably going to say 'no' to them before that process moves much further. Whilst I'm not hugely enjoying being unemployed, I don't think taking the wrong job is going to help much in the medium to long term.
I've once again reached the end of all my available sources of credit, and have a huge stack of overdue unpaid credit card bills and missed loan payments. Well, tough shit, really. I'll pay them when I have some money, as per usual, along with the rampant fines and interest they apply in the meantime. I could probably pay one or two of them off with the amount I've paid in fines in the last few years - mostly just through disorganisation, and depression-fuelled apathy.
I spoke to my lawyer yesterday re: my insurance claim, nothing much has happened since the last (first) offer was turned down. The first medical report has just come back and all it really says is "is seriously injured, needs further assessment before anything can be said, come back in 18 months", so that's not really going to progress matters much. My lawyers are going to ask for another interim payment, but I suspect I might be pushing up against the limits of the other party's friendliness at this stage.
My next hospital apppointment is in three weeks, at which time if all has gone very well, I might be allowed to start trying to walk again. Here's hoping.
