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[Tillane]

Yes, I always look my best in monochrome. And my shiftiest.

How's tricks, anyway? You fully recovered from your recent lurgification?

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - The Ship Song

[HoopyFrood]

Heh, shiftiest.

Yes, I think I am. Just the last vestiges of a cough left, but I'm otherwise recovered. Finally.

Stadium Arcadium -- Red Hot Chili Peppers

[Tillane]

Good stuff. Finally found out about my job today: I'll actually have one for the next six months, which is a bit of a relief. After that... *shrugs*

Fun Lovin' Criminals - We Have All The Time In The World

[HoopyFrood]

Blimey. Well, it's good that you know you've got it for that length of time. But the uncertainty is annoying. I go through the same with my mum; every few weeks, it seems, she tells me she's probably lost her job, then somehow hangs on for a bit longer. Doesn't half make me fret about it.

Dosed -- Red Hot Chili Peppers

[Tillane]

Uncertainty is a real swine. I was chosen to do an IIP (Investors In People) interview at work a week or so back, and one of the things I ripped into the department about was the fact that we just don't get told what's happening until the last minute of the eleventh hour. Unfortunately, it's becoming much more prevalent - even in the Civil Service, which used to be known as a job for life.

The Decemberists - The Soldiering Life

[HoopyFrood]

Yeah, you tell 'em. Put up the picket lines and...

Hem.

Hopefully they might actually listen when people mention such. Hopefully

Apply Some Pressure -- Maximo Park

[Tillane]

Chance would be a fine thing, I'm sorry to say. I just hope enough people have complained during their interviews to ensure the department doesn't get its IIP status renewed.

Radiohead - Black Star

[HoopyFrood]

Start a union! Power to the workers. Unite, you have only your chains to lose!



*Cough* Sorry. I am sorry that you're getting such a tough break from work.

Dedicated Follower of Fashion -- The Kinks

[Tillane]

Ah, it's okay. Compared to some, I'm in a pretty decent position. I've been told that my old team will try to get me back once my six months is up: even if they can't, I doubt I'll lose my job completely - just get shifted around again.

Moby - Where You End

[HoopyFrood]

Ah, righto. Good.

Pretty Fly (For a White Guy) -- The Offspring.

[Tillane]

Anyway, enough about my plight. How's the course going?

The Raconteurs - Old Enough

[HoopyFrood]

Not too bad, thanks! Had a very interesting lecture today about Renaissance Tragedy and the Outsider, and liminality and communitas. It links to deconstruction, which I find interesting, even if some of it still makes a whistling noise as it goes over my head!

Lotsa work to do, though.

Hurricane -- Bob Dylan

[Tillane]

Ooh, total sense of deja vu. Not from my own studies, mind, but I remember my brother mentioning both liminality and communitas when he was doing his MA. Not sure I understood it then, either...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Black Crow King

[HoopyFrood]

Ah, well, at least that means Exeter's not teaching us absolute rubbish that no one else has been taught or even heard about

I would attempt to explain, but it would be an uber post and I'd probably just confuse myself anyway

Fans -- Kings of Leon

[Tillane]

Heh, well Matt did his MA at York (I think. It may have been Warwick, actually - he definitely did his PhD there.), so Exeter's doing just fine. I do remember that liminality had something to do with being on a threshold between two states (or something like that), and that communitas was to do with a strong feeling of community spirit, but that's about as far as I'd be willing to venture. And I'm probably wrong on both counts, anyway: I did a History degree, after all...

The Raconteurs - Top Yourself