Tue, 03 Feb 2004

Good, but could have been better

Some months ago, I took the local government's Valencian exam for "medium" level. Failed, even if it hadn't gone so wrong, and I suspected the oral exam (a silly interview, where they ask you to talk about the topic in a newspaper article they give you minutes before) might have been what fucked it. Well, my topic was about parents contracting detectives to follow their kids when they go out to see what they do, and that most of them discover they are a bunch of drug-addicts, vandals and in general, not quite what they believed. Well, I was so surprised about parents really doing this (not about what kids do, you have to be quite blind to not notice that stuff) that I hardly knew what to say, except "well, how fucked is that..." and so. I guess that made me fail, but I asked to get a review of my result.

In parallel, I have been waiting for a call from the local government to see if I finally get a job with them. No news yet, but it'd trully rock if I was able to join that team.

Yesterday I got a phone call from the government office while I wasn't at home, and when my mother told me, I really thought it was The Call. When I phoned this morning, I learned it wasn't about the job, but about my exam, and that they want me to do the oral exam again tomorrow at nine. Cool, if it's just repeating the oral, I will probably pass and won't need to do the exam again on June (instead, I'll do the "high" level), but at the same time I'm back to waiting mode, with this feeling of uncertainity, not knowing if I'll end up being call, or when.

In the Debian front, two minor updates: with galeon in testing, I uploaded a new meta-gnome2 that restores the alternative to epiphany, for they joy of our Galeon users. I also took over gnome-common, and restored automake1.4 as a valid automake version for gnome-autogen.sh, per request of Malcolm, who was getting weird bug reports on gnome-common's bugzilla for this. :)

tbm's great orkut community wants to be filled with all of you tbm-lovers out there. What are you waiting for? Yeah, as predicted, orkut is the current hot stuff. It has propagated to GNOME people massively now, too. Expect a buggy GNOME 2.6 release, hackers are busy... adding smileys, stars and hearts to their "friends".