Lady Macbeth

Are you an enterprising, self-motivated, high-achieving and dynamic spot, who is searching for the perfect environment in which to develop your talents?

Radegund's Face, Inc., established in the mid-nineties and now one of Ireland's most successful infestations, is currently recruiting enterprising pimples to augment our already enthusiastic and productive team.

In a creative and challenging working environment (including twice-daily CleanseToneMoisturise attacks and regular steamings and scourings), YOU will be responsible for maintaining and developing a wide range of services, including painful subcutaneous lurking, egg-yolk style pustulence, innovative pore-clogging, strategic scarring, colonisation of new regions and encouragement of short-lived support spots to give of their best.

Do you have what it takes? Give us a call!

Salary on request; attractive bonuses and benefits. Promotion to cyst or boil status possible, dependent on performance. Radegund's Face, Inc., is an equal opportunities employer.

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Off at the crack of dawn to Geneva with niallm to visit my sister. Back on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, if you're bored, the Other Place has been getting more attention than usual this week, in the shape of (a) a whirly babble about how busy I am, (b) a ranty and no doubt ill-informed reflection on the sciences/humanities divide, and (c) Radzer's essential guide to the great question of our age: Are you a Man or a Blouse?

Finally, I missed this when it came out, but it's good: Guardian article about irony (28 June 2003).