*swirls around*

[aesmael]

Originally published at a denizen's entertainment. You can comment here or there.

The past day has been a bit displeasing. Last night I was having frustration with Windows so decided to try avoiding that by switching back to Ubuntu as much as possible until I can get hold of a new computer. Hopefully that will be worth the trouble; used 1/6 of our available data for the month downloading updates. Some things are better. Ubuntu uses much less memory than Vista does, and being able to have both browser and documents open without so much strain makes for smoother job searching.

Most of this morning was occupied getting my external drive recognised since that is where all my music and resumé and tracking spreadsheet for jobs applied to are stored. Disappointing, since a major reason for storing them there to begin with was so I would be able to use them in both Ubuntu and Vista. The other main activity this morning was securing contact details for referees for my application to volunteer at the local council library. Those turned out not to be in the notepad I nearly couldn't find, nor easily obtainable from internet sources, but were extractable from my resumé once I secured access to that.

I was mistaken about when my endocrinology appointment is, and got a call today confirming it for tomorrow, rather than in a few weeks like I thought. So I have not had my bloodwork done in advance like I was supposed to. Hopefully showing up will still be gainful.

This afternoon I also had an appointment with my case manager. Since I have been unable to find work in a year of looking I am now required to show up to their office twice a week to apply for jobs under supervision, I am also now required to either find an organisation that will take me on to do at least 390 hours of volunteer work over six months, by the end of this month, or else undertake a hundred hours of training. So hopefully the library volunteer application I put in will work out well for me, since at least then I will be doing something like what I want to be paid for. But if I have to take the training that may help; I worry a lot of the lack of response I get is employers not realising the qualification I have already achieved suits me for the positions they are seeking to fill. Hope so. Getting tired of this, and worried there is not much point in applying for work over the next couple of months since I doubt many places want to hire someone about to embark on an imminent vacation.

I wonder if I should go back to Windows already. Not that I especially want to, most things are working better, smoother, quieter. But so far getting Samba shares working with the external drive hasn't made music playable, since for some reason these music players only want to load from local directories, and neither yWriter nor World of Warcraft are currently options for me in this OS. More importantly and more urgently, even though I've got my job-searching files accessible with Dolphin and Nautilus they still don't show up in the file upload dialogue when actually making an application for employment.

But perhaps I am getting ahead of myself there. I don't want to unnecessarily duplicate files, but the only files I need local to upload are a resumé and cover letter, since I keep the tracking sheet where it is and update that. As I realised while finishing the paragraph before this one. That seems better. Feeling hectic and lost. So it is nice that something is better than I thought. I can take more time with the rest, and somehow now it is 20:30 and I really should get my morning job-searching done. Got enough working to be worth working more.

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