Useful/grateful things today:

[drcuriosity]

• Modern Javascript training at work.
  
• Clients not screaming about website performance, which I am hoping means they're happy I Fixed the Things. (Things that were only a problem when they finally decided to set aggressive performance targets a couple of weeks out from launch.)
  
• Definite Potential Intern has now turned into Actual Intern, and she seems to be taking to the place well.
  
• New tenants moving into my ex-girlfriend's ex-flat earlier than expected, which means we're finally out of the lease and I'm not paying $340/wk for a mouldy shithole in Shirley she can't live in with a compromised immune system.
  
• Full 4-month bond return incoming, without contest from the landlord who was always "too busy" to fix anything and too cheap to get it fixed.
  
• Meridian Energy closed the account there as of my last bill, so nothing further to pay.
  
• On the horizon, a potential scholarship / bucket of research funding to write up the last couple of chapters of my thesis as a conference paper or journal entry.
  
• Interesting conversations, and being inspired to write Interesting things again.
  

Despite plenty of stressors, many positive outcomes this week. Now comes two days of sleeping and computer games.

Comments

[dissonantbeauty]

It sounds like things are going well. And I, for one, am hoping you'll write plenty more interesting things. ^_^

[drcuriosity]

I have a couple of Thoughts percolating away :-)

[ashbet]

Glad that many good things are happening and are on the horizon!

Especially getting out of that lease, which will considerably improve your finances.

<3

[drcuriosity]

Oh, definitely! At this rate there's every chance I might even be debt-free again by spring.

<3

[smallmercies.livejournal.com]

Other than the "in Shirley" part, how do the descriptors you used differentiate the flat from any other flat in CHC?

[drcuriosity]

Mouldy shithole by Christchurch standards. Almost everything else of a similar size costs at least $450/wk now. This one they had to drop from $360 to $340 because even in a high-demand market, no one was taking it.

[marsden-online.livejournal.com]

New intern wouldn't happen to be F would she? #crossingthestreams

[drcuriosity]

With one 'r', not two?

Somehow I'd not be surprised if we know at least half a dozen people in common :-)