flyingblogspot.com (tales from urban dilettantia)

I have been in Melbourne, enjoying cocktails, the touching of chameleons, wonderful company, fantastic food, historically significant roller-coasters and plush hotels. Oh, and checking out the bike sharing scheme – more on that to come. But for now, here are the set-lists for the Metallica shows I saw this year in Perth and Melbourne, posted for posterity and smugification:

Burswood Dome, Perth – 22 Oct 2010

That Was Just Your Life
The End Of The Line
For Whom The Bell Tolls
Fuel
Fade To Black
Broken, Beat And Scarred
The Four Horsemen
Sad But True
The Unforgiven
All Nightmare Long
One
Master Of Puppets
Blackened
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman

Breadfan (Budgie cover)
Hit The Lights
Seek & Destroy

Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne – 21 Nov 2010

That Was Just Your Life
Fuel
Disposable Heroes
The Thing That Should Not Be
Fade To Black
Of Wolf And Man
Leper Messiah
Sad But True
The Unforgiven III
The Call of Ktulu
One
Master Of Puppets
Fight Fire With Fire
Nothing Else Matters
Enter Sandman

Die, Die My Darling (The Misfits cover)
Trapped Under Ice
Seek & Destroy

I think these two pretty much speak for themselves.

As anyone who follows me on Twitter has no doubt already realised, I’ve just had a particularly interesting conversation with one of my bosses.

Large Accounting Firm’s Moscow office has been trying to get a Perth secondment for a young woman in their team, and to convince us to take her, they’ve offered to cover the costs for taking one of our team to Moscow for twelve months for a reciprocal secondment.

There aren’t any additional details at the moment – it’s all very uncertain and I’ve just been asked to consider whether I’m interested over the next couple of days and to let my boss know. My main concerns are the amount of support I’ll get from Large Accounting Firm (generally they seem to pay for a couple of weeks’ hotel accommodation while you sort out living arrangements, and you’re expected to take care of yourself to a large degree), and whether I’ll be completely useless to the Moscow team given that I can’t even read the Cyrillic alphabet.

Can anyone put me in touch with a professional Aussie (or other English-speaking) woman who has lived and worked in Moscow? I’d really like to talk to someone who has been through a similar experience.

It’s looking like it has all the potential for adventure. Eep.