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Unfortunately, on this occasion
It was for a bit of part-time EFL teaching.
I have:
Two good humanities degrees
Qualified school teacher
Certificate in Teaching English as a Foreign Language (taken in Lisbon)
Experience in teaching children and adults in the UK and abroad
Conversational French and Portuguese
Never ill
Understated but classy dress sense
It wasn't asked of me, but since they also lay on a bit of a social and sporting programme, I mentioned the fact that I am a qualified FA referee for under-14 games. Yes, the pupils would be over 14, but I could have organised Chinese Economics Students XI v Malaysian Trainee Doctors XI.
...you have not been shortlisted for interview. May we take this opportunity of thanking you for your interest in working for the University and to wish you success in the future.
Probably shouldn't have slightly taken the piss out of their question about "coping under stress" by referring to the years I spent on the railway with thousands of lives passing through my hands every day and having three teenage daughters.
I'm going to get my spies to tell me who got the job. A "nice", docile twentysomething woman, I'll bet. The members of the young female adminstrative cadre that runs universities these days probably feel uneasy about interviewing a man twice their age, let alone managing him.
My rent's going up in April; I'm fairly certain that me and Mary-Ann have come to the end of the road. Today had better improve sharpish.
In happier news, Neil, who has featured here recently in posts about when I kissed a man and I liked it, has been invited to be a contributor to the Guardian!
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"Looby is a left-wing intellectual who is obsessed with a) women's clothes and b) tits." -- Joy of Bex.
WLTM literate woman, 40-65. Must have nice tits, a PhD, and an mdma factory in the shed, although the first on its own will do in the short term.
There are plenty of bastards who drink moderately. Of course, I don't consider them to be people. They are not our comrades.
Sergei Korovin, quoted in Pavel Krusanov, The Blue Book of the Alcoholic
I am here to change my life. I am here to force myself to change my life.
Chinese man I met during Freshers Week at Lancaster University, 2008
The more democratised art becomes, the more we recognise in it our own mediocrity.
James Meek
Tell me, why is it that even when we are enjoying music, for instance, or a beautiful evening, or a conversation in agreeable company, it all seems no more than a hint of some infinite felicity existing apart somewhere, rather than actual happiness – such, I mean, as we ourselves can really possess?
Turgenev, Fathers and Sons
I hate the iPod; I hate the idea that music is such a personal thing that you can just stick some earplugs in your ears and have an experience with music. Music is a social phenomenon.
Jeremy Wagner
La vie poetique has its pleasures, and readings--ideally a long way from home--are one of them. I can pretend to be George Szirtes.
George Szirtes
Using words well is a social virtue. Use 'fortuitous' once more to
mean 'fortunate' and you move an English word another step towards
the dustbin. If your mistake took hold, no-one who valued clarity
would be able to use the word again.
John Whale
One good thing about being a Marxist is that you don't have to pretend to like work.
Terry Eagleton, What Is A Novel?, Lancaster University, 1 Feb 2010
The working man is a fucking loser.
Mick, The Golden Lion, Lancaster, 21 Mar 2011
Rummage in my drawers
The Comfort of Strangers
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George Szirtes ditto
Infomaniac [NSFW]
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Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder
On The Rocks
The Most Difficult Thing Ever nothing since April
Quillette
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"Just sit still and listen" - woman to teenage girl at Elliott Carter weekend, London 2006
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NewMusicBox
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