ferrousland.com - diary archives for March 2000
Thursday, March 30, 2000
garden work - 04:50 PM
i did more gardening with my love today. we're taking the pool out of the backyard & part of this involves removing the fence. sounds like an easy task but some of the poles have been cemented in with a...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2000
not drowning, waiting - 09:20 PM
got what amounts to a second rejection letter today, but it's a blanket "thank-you-for-your-resume-but-we-can't-help-you" email from an agency. same old catch-22 situation that every new graduate is in. need the experience but can't get it because no one will employ...
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Tuesday, March 28, 2000
thanks, but no thanks - 03:00 PM
got my first rejection letter. i was pretty sure that i wouldn't get that job anyway, although i would have loved to have worked there. oh well. in the meantime while i'm looking for work as an application developer i'm...
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Monday, March 27, 2000
hardware trouble - 05:45 PM
the computer's been down for the last couple of days. had to put the old motherboard back in to get it working the way it should have been all this time since we upgraded the motherboard & video card. seems...
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Saturday, March 25, 2000
exciting .. not - 06:15 PM
well, no diary entry for two days. this is how exciting my life has been. it'll still be a while until i find out about any jobs, so no news from that front. i've been doing pretty much nothing but...
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Wednesday, March 22, 2000
job application - 02:15 PM
still pretty bored. but i finished my resume & sent off my application for a job. hopefully i'll hear from them soon. i put my resume online too to show off a bit. hehe. it looks pretty good actually, even...
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Monday, March 20, 2000
want work - 08:00 PM
i'm really keen to start work as soon as possible. it's getting really boring sitting at home all day. i've been trying to keep busy but going to work every day would be a welcome relief. today i downloaded a...
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Sunday, March 19, 2000
ten months - 08:20 PM
went to a baby shower today for a friend i haven't seen in a while .. not the one i got the email from, a different one. is everybody having babies??? i'm kind of jealous. i'd love to be having...
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Friday, March 17, 2000
septum - 08:45 PM
i finally got my septum retainer today!! i got a dark coloured one. it's excellent .. you wouldn't have a clue it's there & even if you look hard, right up my nostrils, it's not easy to see. i can...
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Thursday, March 16, 2000
primepus - 03:00 PM
yaaaayyyyy!!! no more primepus! no more primepus! naaah nah nah naah naaah! ('primepus' is our derogatory name for 'primus'.) we've just signed up with ihug as our new isp. now i have to move my site across. we just missed...
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Tuesday, March 14, 2000
new job for mungbean - 05:00 PM
oh no!! i just found out that mungbean's not gonna be online for a while. she's finding a new job. who knows whether she'll have the same online freedoms at a new job. i hope so. i'm gonna miss her...
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Monday, March 13, 2000
sparrow's fart - 09:00 PM
i was so tired today. i woke up at some ridiculous time of the morning & couldn't get back to sleep so i just gave up & played on the web instead. mind you, it wasn't that much more exciting...
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Sunday, March 12, 2000
babies - 10:15 AM
i just got an email from a friend i haven't heard from in a little while. she & her husband are pregnant!!! yay!! it's so exciting. they live on the north coast, about an hour away, so i don't see...
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Saturday, March 11, 2000
weird stuff - 02:15 PM
today has been really weird. i had a pretty late night last night so i'm feeling kind of dodgy from that, but things are just all over the place. that sentence doesn't really make sense i know. sorry. there's just...
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Friday, March 10, 2000
productive - 09:15 PM
had a pretty cool day today. got some productive stuff done. completely trashed my hard drive & started fresh, from scratch. there should be no more damaged files left, which means no more freezing up! i didn't actually do all...
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Thursday, March 09, 2000
bored - 12:30 PM
wow. i am so bored. i have nothing to study since i've finished my exams & my website's pretty much up to date. hmmm.
nothing to do. i hope i get a job soon or i'm going to die...
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Wednesday, March 08, 2000
virus - 09:00 AM
turns out that all the problems we were having with the computer was due to a virus. some windows virus that attacks .exe files. for those who don't know what an .exe file is, the extension .exe means that it...
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Tuesday, March 07, 2000
supposedly damaging myself - 12:30 PM
well, i passed my final exam. now i start looking for a job. i'm pretty happy about it but i'm in kind of a stupid mood today. i didn't sleep well last night & i'm still feeling a little put...
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Monday, March 06, 2000
cubed pie - 09:00 AM
had a great time at mung's place the other night. watched a couple of videos, 'american pie' & 'cube'. my sweetheart & i had already seen 'cube' but it's such an excellent movie & we thought that mung & ryan...
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Saturday, March 04, 2000
hanging out - 06:00 PM
my honey & i are going to hang out at mungbean's place tonight & do something that doesn't cost too much. maybe we'll wander the streets & cause trouble for innocent passers-by. nah .. probably watch tv & chat &...
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Friday, March 03, 2000
serious study - 06:00 PM
i've been such a good girl today. i did some serious study & i actually feel like i'm getting somewhere. i have the weekend to do some more, then on monday a cram session with sam where she'll tell me...
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Thursday, March 02, 2000
bored dog - 03:45 PM
is anyone else's connection going reeeeeeaaally slow today? i can't wait for cable modem. we're going to connect to optus@home. it's supposed to be one hundred times faster than regular modem. woo hoo!! the dog must be bored or something....
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Wednesday, March 01, 2000
stress buster - 05:30 PM
well, i'm over my little hissy-fit from yesterday, although the computer's still playing up. i have to learn a better way to stress. i'm not a stress-chicken usually, but sometimes i do have days here & there where things get...
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