Saturday, February 09, 2008

Stuff that happened in January

I suppose I should do a bit of a status update...

Two weeks after that last post, I began work at UNSW (again, albeit full-time and for a different faculty). I had actually gotten another job offer just before the offer from UNSW came in, and was stressed out or a couple of days while waiting for the UNSW job offer to become official so that I could reject the other one.

Work itself has been interesting enough. I've been reintroduced to Linux, and have been slowly learning the ropes of doing tech support for the network of computers and its users.

I went to four concerts in January, all of which were fantastic. The first was Sufjan Stevens and the Illinoisemakers during the Sydney Festival, then Arcade Fire (twice), and finally Joanna Newsom at the Sydney Opera House's Concert Hall. Joanna Newsom was easily the best of the lot. The first part of the set was performed with the help of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, followed by a more low-key session with some of her older songs as well as a few new ones. It was the first time I had seen anything at the Opera House, and the acoustics were, simply put, perfect. It helped that I was near the middle of the room, which was the "sweet spot" in terms of sound. The entire night was beautiful.

Outside of that, there hasn't really been anything exciting that has happened since the last update. Things have started to stabilize and hopefully will stay like that for a while.