fear

had a telephone interview a couple of days ago at a very prestigous american investment bank but the job sounded painfully dull (for less money). it was to work on a DNS project and raise change requests to update the DNS settings on what might have been thousands of servers. no VMware, no AD, no networking, no messaging, no Storage, just DNS. i think the fact that i talked enthusiastically about the others and only gave passing mention of DNS must have given them the idea that i might not be ideal for it. i heard back that they would not be calling me in for a second interview. thank god. i know i would have got bored in a week. i would love to work for them, but to do something worthwhile and interesting. not changing DNS settings for 6 months. 


am still up for a couple of jobs at a couple of other big banks. will see how they go. if they come through great and if not, thats fine too. california in september is calling me ever louder and especially since we had the wettest april in a century in london. May has started much in the same way. it was actually cold outside today as it has been for the last month or so. i am still wearing my winter coat and boots. its shit. 


bought another book yesterday. one day in my life. i have read about the hunger strikes before but this is a book by bobby sands detailing a day of life in prison. as the republican prisoners were protesting for politcal status and not co-operating with the prison authorities, this book was written on toilet paper with a biro refill and hidden inside his body. it was clearly very important to him, and i am curious to read a book that was written so tortuously. 


anyways, onto lighter things. today i have mostly been listening to ben howard - fear. enjoy.