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[NickFitz]

Dammit - the interview went really well

Ah well, never mind - hopefully the alternative option will get its skates on and snap me up first

[FiveTimes]

Dammit - the interview went really well

Ah well, never mind - hopefully the alternative option will get its skates on and snap me up first

sort of well done.

At least it could be a bargaining tool

[NickFitz]

sort of well done.

At least it could be a bargaining tool

There's that. If I don't hear any more about the alternative by tomorrow, I could try and use it to encourage them to get moving I suppose

[ControlG]

Afternoon all

Finally free of my shadow for the day

[voodooflux]

Dammit - the interview went really well

Ah well, never mind - hopefully the alternative option will get its skates on and snap me up first

Nice problem to have at the moment though.

[NickFitz]

Afternoon all

Finally free of my shadow for the day

Hi BEL

[ControlG]

Hi BEL

Hi Nick

Glad that things sound to be picking up on the w*rk front

Don't agree that Yorkshire is "oop North" though, more like the Midlands where I come from

[ControlG]

Only 15 mins more to go.

Should be a relatively relaxing evening. No ironing to do. Did it all last night

Bottle of red left to polish off though

May even turn up on TPD and drivel for a bit

[NickFitz]

Nice problem to have at the moment though.

I suppose so

Just had the pimp on the line again. Apparently the client was very impressed, and will probably be making a decision tomorrow lunchtime after seeing some other bods. He wanted to know if I'd definitely accept an offer.

I know that I'm the only candidate through his agency, so I decided to be honest and told him that there was another possibility that I was waiting to hear about, nearer home and more money. He took it pretty well, while giving me much cautionary advice about things falling through, not turning out as expected, and so forth.

Anyway, I said that if I do get offered it tomorrow, I'd like to wait until Monday before definitely accepting - hopefully the other lot really mean it when they say "ASAP". Otherwise, maybe it'll encourage this lot to up the rate slightly... though probably not

Ho hum; wait and see, wait and see...

[ControlG]

Interesting. You should read the book Ghost and Divining Rod by T. C. Lethbridge.

I'm not saying the book's not just a load of weird nonsense about dowsing (although dating from, IIRC, 1962, it can't be accused of being "New Age"), but that feeling one sometimes gets for no apparent reason at a certain place is one of the main things he writes about in there. I came across the book in the town library in the Seventies, and found it quite intriguing. I found a copy (which I hopefully still have somewhere) in a second-hand bookshop some years later; but it's been many years since I last read it.

He was an archaeologist at Cambridge University, so he had some experience of odd places. His speculations about the reasons why a mood may come to be, in and of itself, associated with a physical place such that it transmits itself to those unwary travellers who find themselves there are very interesting. Probably nonsense, but certainly food for contemplation and speculation about those aspects of what we call "reality" that are hidden from us by the particular set of societal constructs defining the nature of "truth" and "reality" that we are heirs to.

After all, "nonsense" has to be defined in relation to some conception of what constitutes "sense"; and many cultures and civilisations have flourished over the millennia through which we moderately-clever apes have been roaming this Earth whose idea of "making sense" wasn't dependent on the maunderings of Plato, Aristotle, or Descartes.

Thanks, very interesting Nick. I'll keep an eye out for the book.

I'd always found such things "nonsense" but having experienced such a feeling perhaps there is something in it, after all.