Winona’s first day at work is full of lacunas. Meetings are delayed. Her laptop isn’t ready. So she has plenty of time to think about how the impromptu party went on Saturday night. Now that everyone is older, last-minute parties don’t work so well. Wayne and Henny couldn’t get a sitter. Neither could Helena and […]
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Any Way The Wind Blows
May 28th, 2010 Comments Off on Any Way The Wind Blows
What has Will been up to, anyway? At work, he has been accepted into the tribe. He goes around with colleagues to lunches, drinks, software user groups, and the occasional sporting match. A great mob of them always go out for curry on Wednesday. The rest of the week, three or four of them tend […]
It’s About Time
May 19th, 2010 Comments Off on It’s About Time
Winona has received a job offer from the Department of Stodge. She is not surprised. Twenty years ago, an offer like this would have meant a job for life. Everyone knows that it isn’t, anymore. But the employee selection system around it is still constructed as if this had not changed. Winona has been through […]
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My Squalor Was More Squalid
May 12th, 2010 1 Comment
Winona has joined Will and his co-workers for after work drinks. One of them has asked where Winona is working, and gotten more than he bargained for as she describes her ongoing interviewing experiences with the Department of Stodge. “…so then I spent all afternoon taking those bizarre employment-fitness psychological tests. The ones where they […]
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Wellington Men III: The Export
April 16th, 2010 Comments Off on Wellington Men III: The Export
Will has started his new job, at a private software development juggernaut. Out for drinks with the new crew, he meets someone else who’s recently come to Wellington. Woodrow has a knot of people around him, enjoying his happy, shouty vibe. He can’t believe his luck. He’s down here on contract for Weta Digital, working […]
Wellington Men I: The Best Mate
April 12th, 2010 Comments Off on Wellington Men I: The Best Mate
Will is deeply relieved that Wayne is still his best mate. The big O.E. has broken up mateships of longer duration than theirs, hatched at university. But Wayne is as reliable as ever. On moving day, he’s the one helping haul a king-sized bed out of a TradeMe seller’s home (“Must Pick Up”) into Will’s […]
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My Welly Valentine
April 7th, 2010 Comments Off on My Welly Valentine
When Aucklanders get romantic, they seek out their local views. They want to show off to the significant other, as well as see and be seen. So Auckland canoodlers herd at the Viaduct Basin harbor, the bayside promenades that look out over Rangitoto, the parks on the edges of volcano hillsides. Romance is different in […]
Fun After All
April 5th, 2010 Comments Off on Fun After All
Getting the second round of drinks, Will mentioned to the bartender that he and Winona were freshly returned from London. “London! Choice! I wanna go there just to see. The early closing for the bars sounds mad, eh? I wouldn’t go to work, I hear work’s shot there with the recession – izzat true? I’m […]
But We Just Got Here
April 2nd, 2010 Comments Off on But We Just Got Here
The idea had been for Winona and Will take an evening off from being Returned Prodigal Daughter and Partner. They’d gone downtown with drinks in mind. Packs of people were roaming around, also escaping, the party atmosphere turned up a notch by the transgression of patronizing businesses on A Public Holiday. When they’d run into […]
Not An Interview
March 19th, 2010 Comments Off on Not An Interview
Will is at the strange ritual of Having Coffee With A Potential Employer, a Wellington phenomenon as measured as a Japanese tea ceremony. First, there is the hosts’ disclaimer that this meeting of minds isn’t an interview. They just wanted to meet him. It is unspoken that, if he is found worthy, an actual job […]
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