girlofprey

( Snow adventures )

In TV news:

• Thanks to my parents having it on, I have been watching quite a bit of I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here over the past few days. I think I might be a bit in love with Stacey Solomon. However, it seems like most of the country seems to feel the same way, so it's not exactly a suprise.



• I watched Misfits on Thursday. ( Spoilers for 2.04 )



• I watched Strictly Come Dancing tonight. ( Spoilers )

I think that is everything. Snow and TV. Yay.

Re tonight's Strictly results: Oh well.

I had my second interview yesterday. And I don't to my knowledge have another one coming up, so I can now think about other things while waiting to hear back about them. Things like Christmas shopping, which I haven't done much of yet. I'm in the usual I can't think of anything/the things I like are too expensive bind, but hopefully I can get something sorted in the next couple of weeks. At least I've got plenty of time free, although then again not that much money. Hopefully there'll be some nice not-too-expensive stuff around.

The second interview, as it turned out, was not with the same woman as before - I was waiting in the waiting room (a bit early, yay!) and a woman walked by asking if I'd seen a guy walk past me, and I told her I'd seen a few, and she laughed and then said "Oh, are you here for the interview? We'll be with you in just a second". Which was unexpected. It turned out that the woman who was meant to be interviewing me couldn't be there that day (not because she'd interviewed me before, as I'd possibly thought) and it was actually her senior who was doing the interview, along with a clerical officer from the actual health centre. And I thought "fine", but wasn't sure if I should say something about being interviewed before. Early on in the interview though she asked, when I said I'd been applying for a few NHS positions, if I'd had any interviews lately and I mentioned I'd had one the other week with the woman who was meant to be there that day. And she said fine and didn't say anything about it.

The interview went on, and most of the questions were ones I'd had in the interview before, except for one, I think, and then just near the end the woman said "actually, can I ask you - ". She broke off and said she'd finish what she'd been talking about, and then said "Can I ask you, you said you'd had an interview last week with [the woman I was meant to be being interviewed by]. Have you had these questions before?". And I had to say yes. But she was laughing and smiling about it, so I don't think it was that big a deal. She asked if I'd thought it was odd having the same questions again, and I said because it was basically the same post I'd thought they might have standard questions to ask in the interview. Apparently I was meant to have had different questions, but they don't get the names of people on their applications until the day before the interviews happen, which is probably why no-one realised I was having another one. But as I say, she was laughing and smiling about it, so I don't think it was too big a problem. And she'd said the reason she'd suddenly thought I might have had the questions before was because she'd been thinking my answers were "a bit good", which is a hopefully good sign. I won't hear anything until some references come back from the preferred candidate, but hopefully I should hear about both jobs shortly.

The only problem is - I applied for both jobs at the same time, on the same night, and because they were the same post and had the same job description, I got a bit confused between them. When I got the message asking me to come to an interview for the first one I had a feeling it was part-time, but it turned out to be full-time. During yesterday's interview, however, they mentioned that that post was only 20 hours. Which isn't really enough for the money I need, at present. So if they don't offer me the full-time one and offer me the part-time one, I don't know if I'll be able to take it, unless I get another part-time job. But I can't make any decisions till I hear back about either job, so there's no point getting worried about it now, I guess.

Anyway. I watched Misfits yesterday. ( Spoilers for Misfits 1.04, and the preview for next week )

So. My interview is tomorrow. My mum came down on Friday, and I currently am in possession of a new, grey interview suit, mostly bought at Marks and Spencers. In fact I think completely bought from Marks and Spencers. I have washed my white/cream bra to go under my white shirt, although I haven't hung it up to dry yet (I'll do it very soon, honest). I have two problems, one is that my smart work boots that I took to be reheeled yesterday seem to have either been worn down or given a smaller heel that I remember them having, but I've tried them on and I can walk in them, and they don't look particularly weird or anything. So that's alright. The other is that I'm meant to have printed off a health questionnaire they sent with my notification about the interview, and to have it filled it in and with me at the interview tomorrow. However, I don't currently have a printer, and the print shop I normally use was, when I went down to it on Saturday, both closed and appeared to have turned into a photocopier sales and servicing shop. I'm going to have a look for any other print shops in Nottingham, and if there aren't any I guess I'll just have to look through it, jot down any answers I need, and explain everything tomorrow at the interview and ask if I can get one and fill it in before I go. Hopefully they won't think that's weird.

Other than that, I have the rest of the night to read interview tips and techniques, have a shower, read back through my personal statement on the application probably, and get a decent night's sleep. The only thing worrying me now, aside from the whole Job Interview thing, is that I just realised I'll probably have to put down about the counselling I'm having at the moment. Hopefully that won't sway things, or not too much. Anyway, fingers crossed, mostly. My mother got upset on Friday because she realised I'd bought an interview shirt that was white, and an interview bag that was sort of off-white. I'm not convinced that that's the kind of thing that will swing it, but in any case, as I say, fingers crossed.

Anyway. OTHER AUS TONY AND MARIA COULD STAR IN: a historical sort of AU where Tony is a warrior/knight from Scotland after the English sort of take over it, and he mostly hates the English, but comes to England looking for work or something anyway, and ends up meeting the young noblewoman or queen Maria, and starts working for her, and they FALL IN LOVE.

Or, an AU where they're professional dancers, and he is the very driven and technically accurate sort of dancer, and she is doing it mostly for the love of dancing, but isn't particularly successful. Tony loses his partner at about the same time Maria's partner and perhaps boyfriend leaves her, and maybe Tony sees her training or something, and they become dance partners. Maria is not quite as driven as Tony, and her confidence has taken a bit of a knock after her partner/boyfriend left her, and Tony starts getting frustrated. Eventually he just asks her, "Maria - what's your favourite dance?". And she's like, honestly? The jive. And he is not particuarly impressed because he's more on the ballroom side of things, but he asks to see her jive anyway. AND SHE IS GREAT AT THE JIVE. And properly loves it more than she thinks she can't do it. And he's like, "Well - okay". And then they start putting together a jive routine, and Tony's not quite as good at it as Maria, but he pushes himself because he's that kind of dude, and eventually he learns to loosen up a little bit and they start to do a really great jive. And they still do the jive routine, but from there he moves her on to doing the quickstep and getting really good at it, and then into getting better at other ballroom dances. And they also start to branch out into other Latin dances, and going into competitions and things, and also start to fall in love, and eventually they do a rumba to Chasing Pavements by Adele, which the people on Strictly REFUSE TO DO, and they realise they properly are in love and get together, and WIN THE COMPETITION. And stuff.

I fell so in love with the first idea I got to thinking that given that Maria in Coronation Street grew up helping to run her parents' kennels and loves dogs, and that this was probably one of the few hobbies that could be carried over into a historical AU, I actually spent some of last night researching dog breeds, particularly the ones from England and Scotland. I didn't realise how recently Golden Retrievers and Labradors had started existing as a breed. Although I kind of got the feeling that they were sort of "modern". Anyway, I slightly fell in love with English Mastiff, and the Scottish Deerhound. But I've clearly also given the dancing AU a bit of thought.

I know I'm banging on about Maria and Tony quite a bit. But I do really love them.

Anyway. I also saw the second episode of Misfits last week. ( Misfits, up to 1.02 )