i was also told i would be working with a development team and my boss made a point of saying that the guy i would be working was rude. what a strange thing to say to someone new and before i had even spoken to this other guy. anyways, today i was talking to that particular developer and it turns out he actually is rude. what a wonderful reputation to have. famous for being rude.
anyways, i am trying with great haste to extracate myself from this contract by finding something else. went to meet someone about another job going at a fund management firm and we shall see how it goes. i really am not in the mood to spend the next 6 months dealing with assholes and doing nothing but webservers and not utilising any of my other skills. you just become brain dead after a while. were it not for a vmware project at my last 6 month contract i think i would have turned into a vegatable after 6 months. that project kept the blood circulation in my head going.
was watching tv this evening which is not something i do a lot of. i did come across 2 rather contrasting programmes and watched a few minutes of each one as a comparison. one was about peaches geldof and one was about a tribe of mongolian nomads. peaches geldof spent the entire time being photgraphed, hanging out with her friends, changing outfits, and talking about herself in a very boring and self obsessed way.
the program about the nomads followed a clan treking across mongolia to their winter base. a family living off the land, raising their children including a disabled young girl. they talked about their way of life and it showed them living off the land and being self sufficient. they talked about aspirations for their children and the hopes that their children might not have a life as hard as they had and the hope that they would get an education and a choice of what to spend their life doing. they had a dignity and honesty and a selflessness that was humbling. they built their own shelter and tended to their own livestock and killed and grew their own food. remarkable wonderful people with a human capacity to survive in very tough conditions and yet they all seemed happy and content and had immense diginity.
meanwhile on the other channel we had peaches geldof talking about herself in her new york apartment, talking about herself at a fashion shoot, talking about herself in london and talking about herself on a trip to the country with her mates, and none of it was interesting or informative.
i watched one programme with complete admiration for the people in it, and i watched the other programme show someone show themselves up for being a vacuous nothing with nothing to say or learn from.
i know it sounds a bit harsh on peaches but in the 3 months i had between contracts i found myself reading voracioulsy about history and current affairs which was something i have always been interested in since school. it makes a change from reading exam guides and technical manuals about the lastest version of some microsoft or citrix product. i also downloaded lectures and books and listened to them on my mp3 player. i might not have earned any money in the last 3 months but i enriched my mind a little bit by reading about rwanda, congo, chile, afghanistan, haiti, nicaragua, vietnam and the middle east, and mongolian nomads this evening. it makes the trivial seem even more so.
i am currently reading hegemony or survival and my next book to read arrived as well, the holocaust industry . other recommended books are the condor years , blanketmen , the graves are not yet full , hopes and prospects and season of blood. some of these books i have read before but i always need to read them a couple of times to absorb them. there are a lot of details in them and i am a bit thick.
if you fancy something a little lighter i suggest you read the motley crue autobiography, the dirt. imagine what young moneyed rockers in 80's LA might do, and then turn it up to 11. its mental but also entertaining.
today i have mostly been listening to bat for lashes - pearls dream.
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