Having completed my outsourcing report for my individual project, I’ve taken the past couple of days off, which was nice.
However, now it’s back to the grindstone – lots of project work to do – it’s time to start coding!
Oh, and Rupert-sensei and Danny are now back after Christmas, so we now have someone to teach us at Kempo! My dogi’s arrived as well, so I’m now looking like I belong in the class (to those who can’t see I’m crap, anyway).
Christmas, New Year’s and all the rest were lovely. As usual. I got to meet a number of my old friends again, which was good – it’s been a while since I saw them.
I had an interview with Accenture on Tuesday (Jan 7th), which unfortunately didn’t go as well as I’d hoped – for some reason I got caught off guard, and didn’t put myself across as well as I could have. Which is a pain. We’ll have to see whether they want me back for the second round, fingers crossed eh?
Outsourcing report crawls forward as usual, as do various option selections. Thankfully the report’s due on Monday now rather than tomorrow, so that gives me some extra breathing space.
We had our first Kempo training session at uni yesterday – which was fun. No black belts present, so we all muddled through as well as we could.
Anyway, back to work…
Well I’m home, enjoying good ole fashioned home fare, and diligently ensuring that my time here is as uneventful and lazy as possible.
At least, that’s what I’ve been doing up until now. My family and I (and Phil – ever a tagger-on) went to see the latest Harry Potter movie this evening, and while that Malfoy kid is still played by possibly the worst actor in the world, the rest of the film was largely well presented. Sometimes it didn’t quite gel though – not enough time spent developing Ginny’s character and too much Quidditch, for example.
Listen to me, I’m sounding like a Potterite. Hmph.
I’m going to see the Two Towers soon! No, I don’t want to know what happens – I want it to be a surprise! Like “Titanic”.
Well, enough rambling, back to making sure the telly doesn’t fall off its table. Requires constant surveillance, I’m sure you’ll agree ^_^
Got an email from Accenture yesterday saying I’ve been successful in the first round of applications (filtering the online application forms).
They’ll be contacting me in January about arranging an interview.
This is wonderful news by the way – it means I’ll have a chance to put myself forward in a more face to face way.
Working at Accenture would be great – solving real life problems is what I got into the computing industry to do, so consulting is the way to go. Accenture in particular seems to do things properly, so I’d really like to work with them.
I can honestly say that Paris is a lovely city. No, really.
As we didn’t have much time, we had to skip the Louvre, though we did manage to fit in the Eiffel Tower, Concorde, le Champs Elysees, l’Arc de Triomphe, and many other things including the Rodin museum (Rodin did the sculpture “Le Penseur”).
It was cold though. Really really really cold.
Funnily enough I couldn’t find any litter on the Champs Elysees. Even though there were no bins. Not in keeping with my experience of cities – maybe the French actually care about the state of their streets.