Bunny has just finished reading Bret Easton Ellis‘ latest; Imperial Bedrooms, and is just happy that it was fairly short. Easton Ellis is still going down the route of meaningless indulgences and violence, it has however lost the shock effect from his previous work, like American Psycho and Glamorama. Even the autobiographic reference to Less than Zero and his wink to Elvis Costello seem a tad desperate. Maybe it’s on purpose…
Except from recognising some of our hang out spots during my latest visit to LA I found it less than thrilling. Maybe I am getting jaded too. I do however still snigger slightly thinking about an ex-boyfriend who dutifully called me from a party in Easton Ellis’ showroom flat in NYC…he had been instructed to check out the bathroom for any incriminating evidence. And found a wrench under the sink. Hardly very exciting 
Bunny has had the mixed pleasure of spending a lot of time in North Yorkshire lately…mixed because of the weather, which has made travel to and from Skipton quite tricky…and because of the hotels. One to avoid: The Rendezvous. Talk of back to the 80s..and not in a good way!
Then there’s the Boutique 25…Bunny stayed in room 4; apparently “a contemporary French boudoir” Yes, the jacuzzi was nice and staff was very helpful….but the shower didn’t work and it felt sort of….moldy….
Anyway, Bunny will be back in Skipton and will keep reviewing the accommodation, plan is to test yet another hotel this time. And the restaurants have been brilliant so far 
Having just started in what still seems to be my dream role (fingers crossed), I just though I would share some tips with recruiters, as the points below have annoyed me a lot over the past year or so:
1. Please read through my CV/profile/the brief I have given you properly before getting in touch; it makes me doubt how professional you are when you keep contacting me about irrelevant roles or don’t know about my past experience/current role/salary level.
2.It’s fine to ask me about candidate tips for roles that are not relevant for me, but why not send me an email instead – seeing as most of the contact details you are asking for will be saved on the mobile you are calling me on, so I cannot look them up while talking to you
3.Please don’t call from an undisclosed number – the chance of me answering the call is a lot higher if I know who’s calling, and it is a lot easier to return the phonecall if I have already got the number on my mobile
4.Please do not leave me along and warbled answer phone message
No, I don’t enjoy having to replay the message several time to try and suss out your name and phone number
Top tip: Get yourself an email SMS system, where you can easily send me a message with all the relevant information and a telephone number…increases the chance of me getting back to you promptly.
5.As much as I would like to meet up with everyone to increase my chances of finding the perfect role; please do realise that I am NOT just working with you…and the chances of me meeting you at daytime while in a job are pretty slim unless you have a relevant role right now…
I would also like to add that I have had the opportunity to work with some really good, enthusiastic and professional recruiters – and they mostly never display any of the above behaviours…I take my hat off to all of you!
Bye bye Orange!
Just an update on a previous story…
So, Bunny had been an Orange customer for more than 5 years, and had used their mobile broadband service for almost a year. It has been fast and with good coverage, when all of a sudden I for some mysterious reason had either no or very patchy connection to my mobile broadband account from my home – but it worked well elsewhere.
So, calling up customer services I experienced a strong lack of interest (“tough luck”) – except from one technical advisor in the Bristol call centre who was very helpful, but unfortunately unable to solve my problem. The only advise I had was to check if I’d fare better with a different network provider!
So, the weekend I decided to do so and cancelled my Orange account to say the least I was very disappointed with the response from customer services:
- I had to pay for another month of broadband – so I was paying for a service I cannot use
- I will have to pay at least £20 to unlock my dongle, for which I paid £50….and that is now rendered useless for me
Bunny is so happy that she decided to move all her mobile services to another provider indeed…
Bunny is still puzzled as to why anyone would think this was a good idea…
Stupid black cabs…Bunny is all against illegal cabs, but life would be a lot easier for us all if licensed minicabs could pick up passengers too….as if there is ever a black cab around when you need one?
Bunny does however recommend everyone to save the cabwise number to their mobile phone….
So, Bunny is not quite sure how she ended up in St Leonard’s again and not in Hastings…seems I will never quite make it to Battle (which might be a good thing?)…found a pub NOT to recommend tho…what a horrible place!
So, Bunny was thinking of leaving London earlier this year. Now very glad I didn’t, but just came across my pro and con list…and here is my list of things that I said I would NOT miss in the beginning of 2009 – and some comments…
10 things I will NOT miss
1. Crap housing, especially heating and plumbing
2. Horrendous decorations and furniture
- both sorted by moving into my great new flat
3. My landlords and landladies
- well, been better so far, but…
4. The M25 and London traffic
- luckily mostly using public transportation and walking these days…not without issues either, but…
5. The food in general
6. Chips with everything – including pasta
- so eating more at home…healthier and saves money
7. Dating English men
- well…
8. English high street fashion
9. English shoes
- have found some good stores for shoes and lingerie tho….
10. The weather
- well, can’t be helped, but at least I’ve got my balcony heater…
How very dare they? Bunny has just left Orange as the 3G+ coverage all of a sudden disappeared from Bridges Wharf, and they couldn’t be bothered to look into it…then they plaster this massive poster at the entry to Bridges Court Road…clever?
Argh, they got to me again! Bunny hates the TV Licence with a vengeance….if they want public broadcasting bloody fund it over the tax system instead of inventing a new…