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Well today was a good one -- after sleeping in until a healthy 11am or so, I got up and went to a job interview over in Mornington. The interview was for a programming position that I had been referred to by a friend of mine. The business is run out of the guy's house, where he lives and works with his wife -- well I think she's his wife. They were both present for the interview, as was their small child who watched my closely throughout the 20 or so minutes we were discussing things.. I think I must have made a good impression, coz then I was offered full time work. That's pretty much the best interview I've done I have to say -- one interview and they're writing me a contract and taking down my bank account details.

The job sounds pretty cool, I'll be working on a web interface for a system that allows athletes to share and comment on training videos of themselves or others. Or if not that then one of several other projects that they have going at the moment. I'll have to get up to speed on it pretty quickly -- hopefully it won't be too difficult. The brilliant part is that I can work from home and I can do the hours at any time of day or night as long as they get done.

I then went to the bank to sort out a few things and walked back up home again to think about the new job and do a bit of reading.

I walked down to McDonalds to work my shift. They've just changed to a new way of preparing their food, so when I got there some of the equipment had changed and organisation of the kitchen was all different from before. This was only my third shift there so everything is still new enough to be interesting and the time I spend there is more or less totally busy. After 5 hours, plus all that walking around today my legs were pretty tired. How sore are they going to be after 9 hours? The other McD's crew are pretty cool, nobody seemed to care too much if I got something wrong, which is okay. I'm still learning how to do most of the stuff, and a couple of times I got the wrong sauce on the bun, or something like that -- it just gets binned and they start it again. It only happened a few times though and yeah, pretty relaxed and, well, fun, as crazy as that sounds. More fun than my old IT job was :)

They've rostered me on for like 40 hours or something next week, and I've signed on for 40 hours at the new job too. Worse, the McDonalds hours are graveyard shifts, since they're going 24/7 from the first of feb. I'm not sure how to fit it all in. I'm going to have to work, say, 8 hours of this programming job followed by a midnight to 7am shift at McDonalds, followed by sleep, followed by another 8 or whatever I can manage to fit in of the programming work.. Fortunately it'll only be like that for a week before I can tell McD's to give me less work again. Or I could just quit McDonalds... But honestly, I kinda like it there, and I'd rather see if I can stay there if I possibly can... :)

I walked back up the hill to my parents house in the rain. They'd left me some roast chicken, as well as kickass icecream and fruit salad. So now I'm sitting in my comfy room with the heater on (yeah, dunedin is cold in summer).. and full of good food, pretty tired, but relaxed and comfortable... so I'm happy.