As I think I may have mentioned before, for the last six months or so I've been working for the Man. It's been pretty much a full time job, but with a few classes of uni thrown in just to spice up the mix, and frankly I'm totally over it. Rather than enjoying working in the field for which I'm trained (ASEAN and general international politics analysis) I've instead found it boring, intellectually stifling and a black hole that sucks at my soul.

So recently I've started looking for other jobs. I graduate in a few weeks so it hasn't been a particularly strenuous search (I've got too much to do to spend much time on applications) but I have knocked off a few apps and sat for some interviews in fields as various and exciting as marketing, GR (gov relations; like public relations but replace the public with public servants), journalism and the 'soft' government fields like health and education.

I'm particularly sticking out for a job for a local newspaper that's going at the moment, so wish me luck or bad fortune (whichever floats your boat) and I'll let you know how it goes.

But yeah, in lieu of an apology this is an explanation for why I may have been a little irritable (and why I'm increasingly convinced JU is being infected with a zombie like insane rightie virus (danielost and all those nuts who came out for brad's islam articles? and I thought crazy ol' doc miler was frothing at the mouth!).

So yeah, cheers to those of my faves who still blog here. You know who you are.