Job and Steampunk

For a man as lazy as myself finding a job when you are unemployed is hard. There are so many better things to be doing with my time than sitting down and working on my cv and applying for jobs I am almost certainly going to hate. As a result, I have not yet applied for work since I quit my last job. This appears to be the perfect way to get a job as one of my friend's texted me today offering me a job working for a stone company (supplying worktops for kitchens and probably other stone related projects as well). I will call him in a bit to find out more. All very exciting stuff i'm sure. Before I find out more, I am not keen on the idea. I probably will dislike it and they will probably expect me to be in the job for a reasonable amount of time, which I certainly won't be able to guarantee. And if a friend gets me a job he will look bad if I do leave or screw up. So I guess I'll find out more and make a decision.

I spent most of the morning reading Perdido Street Station by the bizarrely named China Mieville (with an accent on the first e of his last name but I am too clueless to be able to correctly write that on a computer.) It is a steampunk book, apparently, which wikipedia reliably informs me is a subgenre of speculative fiction concerning works set in the past, or a world resembling the past, in which modern technological paradigms occurred earlier in history, but were accomplished via the science already present in that time period. Steam powered computers and the like in this case. I have enjoyed it so far. A little silly but generally good fun. Certainly better than sorting my life out which was my goal at the start of the week. Maybe tomorrow...