Thursday, June 29, 2006

Sprucing up a CV

I applied for a job today. It took many many hours to spruce up the old CV which had lain forgotten in some dismal part of my computer's filing system since October last year, and then another hour and a half to cobble together a covering letter sounding convincing enough. I have major problems with CVs and covering letters, mainly along the lines of the whole "blowing my own trumpet". I pondered this to Steve, saying that if this was th job God wanted me to have, the one He's prepared for me etc etc, then surely I'm being a bit superlative by bigging myself up? To which Steve responded, we need to "big ourselves up" sometimes just to portray a more accurate picture of ourselves, because most of the time we play ourselves down quite a lot, in some form of trying to be more "humble". But going for a job, you need to be honest - which is a very fine line between being "humble" and being "proud". Or maybe true humbleness is just honesty of who you are and knowing your limits.

Saturday, June 10, 2006

pictures

we watched this being carved this morning in the square, there was quite a racket... i have more pictures, but for some reason only this one made it here!

here's some more pictures from the past month or so... here we have the lake as it thawed;

and when the circus came to town we went on this ride and i screamed and screamed;

here's steve's mum and dad;

and an incredible sunset from the other night.

enjoy!