Friday, October 24, 2008

Jobbing It Again?

I am Blindy, son of Flindy. We are the four who want to try a kangaroo burger. This is our story.

Sorry we haven't posted anything in a while. Not a whole lot has happened so far this week to write about. We have been spending most of our time perusing the interwebs for fun jobs and then running off for a few job interviews here and there. Taylor has been talking back and forth with some tap dancing studio about a job and is now trying to put together some mean footage from when he was the best tapper in Montana. I really want him to get it and then start teaching tap classes so I can take the class and become a tapping fiend like him. Jesse and Erin did a lot of marketing interviews that seemed borderline lame. A lot of the time the interviews sounded more like scavenger hunts and info sessions rather than real interviews. Thats what I don't like about sales/marketing, there is hardly ever any specifics in the job listing so you have no idea what to expect. But then Erin went down to Bondi beach yesterday to interview at a restaurant and nailed it. She worked the rest of the day and is working right now being the first of the four of us to be employed.

I have been emailing resumes around for some waiter positions as well as some payclerk/financial stuff which somehow I have become qualified for (without meaning to) in the last year while I was working for a marketing firm (consequently I have a lot of reservations with marketing firms but thats another story and far too dull for this blog). Not that I am qualified for a waiter position either, but how much training does it take to write down orders and bring people food all the while being smiley and charming? Anyways I got a few calls back from restaurants and this morning I went into the Elvis Pizza restaurant, where Elvis impersonators perform on Friday and Saturday night, for an “interview”. By “interview” I mean I came in and talked just enough for him to realize I was fluent in English and then he did most of the talking. I didn't give him a resume or anything. But the job sounds like a lot of fun and they are looking for someone to work 3 nights a week which works well for me. They are supposed to call me back sometime tomorrow to let me know if I got the job so I'm hoping that works out. Also the guy I talked to who owns the place doesn't really work there except for to perform as Elvis on the weekends which is awesome. At the end of the interview I said “thank you very much I'll talk to you soon” and he responded “you mean thank you very much” in his Elvis voice. So pretty much I don't care if this job pays nothing except for a pizza at the end of the night, I'm really excited to work there. It would also be fun to have the only real American accent in the place

Alright this just in, Jesse just got a job with a marketing company and he is working on a campaign for FitnessFirst. I don't really know the details so I will let Jesse write about it. Besides that we have been sitting around playing a lot of cards in our downtime. Jesse taught us Rummy which most of us had played before but forgot and I taught them Polish Poker and every once in a while we bet pushups on the games. I won a couple games of polish poker in a row this afternoon and then Jesse and I bet 50 pushups on a game of highcard. I drew a four and he got a ten. It seems that I always buckle under the pressure when pushups are on the line. We are going to start playing actual poker with pushups rather than money once we can find chips or something to represent pushups.

A couple other random side notes: the trip to the Powerhouse museum was a lot more fun than Erin made it out to be. We learned a lot about space and magnets and fireworks and rugby and the 50's and steam engines and green houses. They had a little room with the circular walls decorated like you were in a space shuttle and then the walls would rotate around you with the lights moving too in order to produce the illusion that you were floating without gravity. And there were a lot of other hands on displays that we enjoyed, except for when we got yelled at for trying to play with displays meant for children. But my favorite exhibit was at the very beginning of our wanderings. Turns out that towel shorts and towel clothing used to be a thing in Australia back in the day. I didn't get too much of a chance to read everything but take a look at this picture of full on towel clothing! I hope my towel shorts don't seem old fashioned out here.


Alright I think that's it for now. Thanks so much to everyone back home who has been emailing us and leaving comments on the blog. We love you guys so much and it makes our day when we sign in and find like 5 comments on our last entry (thank you preston). Finally we watched the Baby Shower episode of The Office a couple days ago and so here are my thoughts.


Baby Shower

Just a few thoughts on the show. Once again the cold open was pretty much my favorite part of the show. The butter on the watermelon bit worked so well. We have been watching a lot of Season 2 of the Office here on dvd and going from season 2 to season 5 you quickly notice how the show has gotten so much more plot driven with time. I was talking about that a little bit with Erin and she preferred the more plot driven episodes while I am a fan of the random string of episodes and events that used to happen in the older seasons. I understand that a show can't continue forever with random episodes and still retain its quality but I still like the randomness more which is why I generally enjoy the cold opens so much. Anyways back to the episode. I think all four of us here are pretty tired of Jan and want to see her go away so we loved Michael and Holly's moment at the end. I really didn't like the Dwight testing the stroller story at all. We saw him go off on his own and do similar things in the Cocktails episode where he inspects the CFO's house. That was funny then but I would have much rather seen Dwight in the office with the rest of the characters during this episode. Also Astird was my favorite.

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