Acquired: Job x1

I got up today at 6:45. I'll never do that again - in summer, as far as I'm concerned, that's closer a time to go to bed than a time to get up. The reason for it, though, was because I had a job interview with the Robert Gordons University.

Once I arrived there I found that my interviewers hadn't seen the same necessity to get in to work on time for the interview to take place, and I was kept waiting for about fifteen minutes past my 9am interview time. After they had finally arrived, I was led in to a small conference room and asked a lot of strange questions about my computer experience. They started off normally enough, with what I was doing with my degree and so on, but then out of nowhere asked if I had any experience with Microsoft Word, document formatting and "using styles". This seemed such a primary school level of question that it caught me completely by surprise.

Walking out of the building afterwards, the only mistake I felt I had made was that I had gone on too much about the project - but it was certainly a useful reference, having worked with a team to produce something of that scope. While I was in Aberdeen I went and bought an album for the first time since last summer, then went home on the express bus to Inverurie that took almost a full hour to travel the distance of sixteen miles.

I had been told after the interview that they would contact me some time in the next week to tell me what they thought. Two hours and fifty-two minutes after I had left the building, I got a call offering me the job.

So after I come back from America in July, I'm going to be a temporary VLE Administrator. The fact that I don't know exactly what a VLE is or how to administrate one hasn't put them off me at all. In addition, I can still have my part-time work at the golf club, at least until I leave for California. I now feel entirely justified in doing nothing else until the 1st of June.