Interviewing: housemates (day 2)

Well, we started well today with a no-show and then the next one was something like 40 mins late. (I think calling someone when you are running late is a pretty simple common courtesy.)

The first was a little older than our other candidates (but sadly I'm still older) and it's her first time out of home in a share place - she's lived with four brothers and in her own flat but didn't seem particularly prepared for share housing.

Part of her problem unfortunately was that she seemed highly conscious of this and so all these things just served to make her more nervous. It's hard to say how to work around this issue but given the quality of other applicants, it didn't help her.

The next (and last) person was a webdesigner from Melbourne, working for a government department with an amusing acronym. (DIC)(DIAC my arse. You were never DIAMA or DIMIAA, where does the sudden use of And come from? You didn't think your acronym through and you just have to wear it I'm afraid)

Very personable guy, seemed easy going and interesting and Eric and I had a great chat with him after Abi thought that he was all talked out and wandered off to the shops. (So consequently she missed the most interesting stuff about him)

This was (just quietly) also the guy who had seemed the most promising during the week and I was thinking that he would have a good shot.

Abi (not surprisingly) thought otherwise - she had particularly bonded with the first girl today - the same girl that was pretty well at the bottom of our shortlist. (well, perhaps before the multimedia girl and the noshow anyway).

After trying to work out the fairest way to assess and balance everyones preferences (scoring out of five outright seemed a little cheap), we eventually decided to rank our choices from one to five, total the numbers and the person with the lowest number wins. (Still perhaps a little odd but it seemed the fairest option).

And our choice:

AusAID girl.

(alright, we have a housemate)