tedium

the weeks are flying by or maybe thats just as it seems as its very hard to distinguish each day from the next when you work every weekend. it is all just one big blur of tedium. i am working this saturday again, and as its coming to the end of my project i am getting just shit to do. stuff that nobody else wanted to do and got delayed to the point where it cant be delayed any longer, and so its gets thrown into my lap. no bother, as i am definitely not working the weekend after.

i also need to get in touch with my agency and find out when exactly my last day is going to be. i suspect its beginning/mid december, and so i could end up having a couple of weeks off at the end of this year. am thinking of what i could do in that time off. i really would like to get out of london even if its only for a day or two. come the new year, i will be back to applying for contracts again and having to deal with thick agents like the one i have been talking to this week. he called me up about a job at a swiss bank and said he was going to mail me the details. i recieved nothing. i called him back and he said he forgot and was going mail them to me. i recieved nothing. i haven't called him back. if he is too dumb to use email he is unlikely to be able to get me a new contract.

besides, i had an interview with a couple of people at that particular swiss bank, about 3 years ago, and they came across as amongst the most arrogant assholes i have ever been interviewed by. i have had my fair share of asshole interviewers like the hedge fund who wanted to call me in for a 4th round interview because they still weren't sure after 3 interviews, or the idiot that interviewed me in depth about restoring AD with the express puporse of asking me obscure questions that he had clearly googled the answers for in preperation in a bid to make himself look good. mate, if AD restores are common place at your firm maybe you should be a bit more careful.

there was the guy at the oil trading firm who spoke for 30 minutes about his own background and how he had been in HR at goldman sachs for 9 years. i thought i was the one getting interviewed mate and i dont know what relevance his past had to do with my ability to support their network and servers, and there was the amusing episode whilst at a second interview at microsoft when i used the phrase 'google it', and i may just as well have said said cunt, whilst doing a bit shit on the desk and then punching the interviewer in the face, given the offence they appeared to take at my saying of that particular phrase.

i have to put up with all manner of idiots when i am finding a new contract. to be fair these people are the exception and i have met some good people at interviews as well. its just a bit of a tiring process but its part of the game we have to play. am going to need some r&r before i embark on it again.

today i have mostly been listening to paul van dyk - let go. they were playing at the gym the other evening. they usually play lots of pop/dance music and most of it is shit. this is not bad though.