Old part-time job is finished except for a possible one-day handover later in the month. New part-time job is many, many less hours, at least until the second half of the year, plus their office is still shut due to storm damage, so I can't go in until after Easter or even do any work from home since something has gone horribly wrong with their ( Read more... )

Driving through the city this evening after an 11 1/2 hour day at the accounting job and seeing what were presumably work Christmas parties at every turn, I thought for a second, "I wish I was at a fancy Christmas party tonight. Sniff sniff. Here I am, driving home alone after a long day..."

...and then I thought, hold on a minute, Zebra, you hate ( Read more... )

I've been fine and also fairly fannish, just not getting as far as posting to LJ. In a burst of enthusiasm, I took on another extra accounting job to do from home, one that didn't involve a strict deadline and was a bit out of my area of expertise. The result was that I eyed it off for a long time before starting, occasionally poked at it, finally ( Read more... )

September's one my busiest work months, because annual reports for June financial year-end companies (the norm in Australia) have to be lodged by September 30. Normal Accounting Job has a December year-end, so with it I'm busiest in February/March, but all my Extra Accounting Jobs are for small June year-end companies. This year I've had five: a ( Read more... )

All my EAJs are waiting on further information from the clients, and I've seen all of Wiseguy Season 3, so I have a temporary lull. Today I'm going to finish hand-weeding a 4 acre paddock, exciting!

I liked this article fabu linked to recently about getting the most out of life by prioritising and organising, and have been thinking about the things I ( Read more... )

I'm trying to juggle five end-of-financial-year Extra Accounting Jobs and my shiny, wonderful new fandom. On Monday I was suppposed to be working at home all day to finish an annual report, and told myself that I would NOT GO to the post office to check whether my S3 DVDs had arrived. I lasted until 2:30pm, when I called to check if any packages ( Read more... )

1.  Semi-actively looking for work to replace my 20-hour-a-week Normal Accounting Job. Things have settled down there a lot, but I no longer have a positive or even a neutral feeling about the place. However, a) good part-time work is hard to find, and b) I think I should be taking the opportunity to find something more fulfilling to do, rather ( Read more... )

Passive: do nothing for three years as native wattle trees grow under your wire fence. Wait until the trees are 10 feet tall and the trunk has grown around the wire to remove them ( Read more... )

Aside from providing the usual new-fandom continuous good mood and emotional high, House may be having the most immediate real-life effects on me of any fandom so far ( Read more... )

My new client today turned out to be half of a lesbian couple, who live on a property at the end of a road 2km into state forest, and have four donkeys and a mule. Does life get any better than being paid to visit lovely people in picturesque locations with four donkeys and a mule? I had a blissful James Herriot moment. (And actually, I didn't ( Read more... )