the hunter, not the hunted

i hate it when my brain goes all melty and refuses to function.
i think this may have something to do with the night shifts i've done this week. cleaning stupid fridges, getting stupid frostbite. stupid. the only good thing about it is the penalty rates.

anyway, back to brain melty.

i'm building Pots a new website (go me), and i'm having an issue figuring out what i want to do. are there perhaps a nerdy bunch of you out there willing to help me?

i'm trying to figure out how to get the text to scroll over the page while the background remains fixed. does that make sense? if i'm scrolling text (using the scroll bar or mouse scroller) i want the text to move but not the background. i know it can be done, i'm just having issues getting it to happen (mostly due sleep deprived brain function reduction). i'd really appreciate it if someone could give me a heads up on how to code it or whatever. there's a present in it for whoever lends me their expertise.*

perhaps i should just leave it for now and concentrate on getting more sleep. yeah, that'll be nice....

til next....
~Kits~ (ten hours of penalties does strange things to the mind)

*present may not actually exist

i am so tired. this stupid job. i don't mind it so much, it's mindless and i can mostly turn my brain off in order to do it, which is nice, but it's the insane hours! getting home in the wee hours is not exactly my idea of a fulfilling day at work, nor is the getting to sleep at hours near dawn only to be awoken by the Sprog at an hour or so past dawn (it feels like an hour or so past dawn, but it's usually around 8am). I'm currently existing on about 5 or 6 hours of sleep per night, doing stuff during the day (rarely getting the chance to nana nap) and then working between 3 and 6 hour shifts at night EVERY night unless i tell them otherwise.

i'm so sick of this not getting enough sleep thing, that i've started applying for new jobs that are available DURING THE DAY! So if anyone out there has or knows of any decent paying ($18.50ph minimum) part time jobs, could you point them in my direction. upsell me like there's no tomorrow. tell them they HAVE to have me or else they'll go bankrupt, or something. just tell them i'm neccessary to their existence and that they barely survived before they employed me.

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in other not so 'grrrr' news. i've been looking at my study options for next year. i've missed the first round of early year enrolments, and doubt i'll have had enough time to seriously decide which path to take in order to apply for second round, so i'm looking at mid year enrolments in a BSc. Finally (yes, an uppercase 'F'). deciding which subjects to study (with at least 2 of them almost guranteeing Pots being my tutor) is sooo difficult. i can't decide between getting involved in something i know i can get paid bucket loads for post doc, or something i know i can get paid a pretty damn decent amount for. do i want to be a geneticist or a pathologist? that is the question. i know the geneticist part is due mainly to the influence of Pots (who is a geneticist and statistician), and i've always had some kind of macabre interest in pathology. the whole cutting up things and dealing with goop is quite appealing. then there's the whole 'research' aspect of science (which tends to be where the 'bucket loads of money' part is). i'd like to be earning a slightly more than comfortable income in the future, and i want to be able to provide Monkey with a more than comfortable future (as well as a juicy trust fund), but i know i shouldn't make the dollars my main motivation for choosing my major. i still can't decide between the two. and when it comes to genetics, there are so many different aspects to that as well.

also, do i wanna just be a biol pleb and minion and be a lab tech or some such other menial position, or do i want to run a lab and be in charge of plebs doing research into all kinds of funky things. but really, do i want the pressure of writing grant applications?

do i even wanna go post grad? i don't really think there is much chocice there. if i want to be in a decent position, i need a PhD.

guh! i gotta stop looking at the big picture and refine my search somewhat: what subjects do i want to study. but first: what focus do i want to take? Genetics or Pathology.

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i've also managed to refine my search for monologues down to three, with thanks to the inimitable ghymoreid. I have Rumours monologue in Henry IV, Tamora's guilt trip from Titus Andronicus, and Lady Bracknells Algy monolgue from The Importance of Being Earnest(Oscar Wilde).

I'm now trying to decide whether i should do two Shakespeares of a contrasting nature (Rumour/Tamora), or if I should do one Shakespeare and one Wilde. If the latter be the case, then i have to decide which of the Bard pieces to use. I tell you what, things just don't like coming easy do they?

til next....
~Kits~ (brain melty)

squeeeee!!!!!!!!

i have my coles instore orientation tomorrow!

i start work this week!

squeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!

til next....
~Kits~

just so people know: I still hate cunterlink.

other news: seafood fest on sunday was great! it rained during RUSSELL CROWEs' set. his band is a whole lot of ordinary, with very little fear (of god). will he ever get over the TOFOG thing?

something new: i have a shiny new mobile fone courtesy of my provider. it's black and so light it practically floats! i love VODAFONE.

something 'different':i went to the chemist and got some nasal spray to try and help with my sinuses, only to develop a sinus infection before getting a chance to use it. i now feel ten shades of crap and twelve shades of 'bleh'. and the lethargy and shakes are a new part of this scenario. i hate my head.

where's the gravy boat?: i expressed interest in casual employment with UQ library today. with any luck they'll call and offer me a job in the next six months and hire me because i'm a: not a student, b: definitely not feral (see a:) and c: brilliant!

eggplant: connect the dots with a small tool in the employ of a midget.

til next....
~Kits~ (welcome to the non ratings period)

i've just finished a MARATHON phone session regarding my interview. my ear is red, raw and ver very sore.

the good news is i passed the impersonal audition, and have progressed to the next stage!

w00t for me!

til next....
~Kits~ (pumped full of endorphins)

[edit] the one thing that annoys from the whole experience, is after all the formal questions and she was telling me about the next stage and one of the role plays we'd be doing, she said, and i quote: "It doesn't matter if you've never worked in a call centre before".

gah! and here i was stressing about telling them i had when i hadn't, and it wouldn't have fucking mattered! *sigh* oh well. things may be looking up. i've just got to commit for 12 months. i can handle that. ~K~

now i just want to get drunk.

my brain is farting too much and i can't think of anything relevant.

what gave me the impression i was ANYWHERE NEAR READY to get a job.

?

til next....
~Kits~

today is totally screwing with my head.

now to add to the whole U2 affair i've got a job interview at UQ tomorrow morning to work in the main refec!

today is certainly a most interesting day!

til next....
~Kits~

i've got an information session this evening in relation to my working at the U2 CONCERT!!!!

til next....
~Kits~ (dancing)