I would like to welcome Paul into the blogging fold.

Today I ventured out into the cold and the wind and the snow to pick up a ticket for the Interior Design Show on Saturday at the CNE. My day was made when, at the subway station, a man going up the escalator tripped up the stairs as he watched me walk down the steps - still got it! Woohoo! I popped in at Sam The Record Man to see if my friend Ryan was working, which he was. That boy has his ear to the ground - he is always telling me about gigs, dj nights, cool places and cool people - I regret to say that I have yet to take him up on offers of a night out due to unforseen circumstances, being out of town, being just plain lazy etc. One day soon, I'll get there.

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A short short story

The sun shone through the cracked window blinds. The cat squinted and shifted its position on the bed. The house remained silent and the sounds that filtered into the room were that of the traffic outside and the hum of the computer. No dialogue. Only interior monologue – and plenty of it. Stop thinking already. The man standing outside across the road lit a cigarette and stood shifting his weight from one leg to the other. The wind crept down his chest, his jacket hanging foolishly open in the cold. Cigarette finished, he tossed the butt into the street, self-extinguishing as it landed in the slush. He appeared to be waiting for someone but no one appeared in the 30 minutes he paced the five foot section of sidewalk, seemingly impatient. With a final last look in both directions, up the street and down the street, he crossed the road and disappeared from view. Inside, the cat sleeps.


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Tuesday and I blitzed with the resumes again. I faxed out another 10, emailed 2, and applied to 4 jobs today. Come on people, someone hire me for the love of God! I received a call from an agency that I registered with yesterday about a temp to permanent job. She called once in the morning to say she hadn’t heard anything and once at the end of the day to say the lady doing the hiring is off until next week, so she’ll let me know then if I even get an interview! Gonna barbecue some sausages tonight, which almost makes up for the crap ass day of a lot of action, no results. Sorry my post isn’t more interesting today, but for the sake of site regularity I thought I would jot something down. Listening to Super Furry Animals (Rings Around the World album) and loving every minute of it.

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Well the weekly update is thus: still no job to report, temped last Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at a law office in a reception position. That was easy enough work, just answering the phones and sending for couriers – my life is so fulfilling. Anyways, this one lawyer stopped to ask me how things were going etc. He asked if I temped a lot, and I said sometimes. He asked if I enjoyed temping and I said that I didn’t really, but it helped to pay the bills. He said “oh, so it’s the best you can do, eh?” – thank you asshole, yes as a matter of fact, it is the best I can do at the moment. A little later on in the day, he walks past again and says that I should apply for the position once their receptionist goes on maternity leave, I say sure, will do in a very polite and grateful seeming way, and then he turns around and says “unless you don’t want to work here, and then that’s your problem” What is with this guy? The experience I’ve had with lawyers to date hasn’t been the best (see anecdote above as an average sample of things said to me by lawyers), so if anyone has anything good to say about them, please feel free, although I don’t really want to hear it as it will ruin my bitching story.

Had a great weekend – watched Atanarjuat (The Fast Runner) It’s an epic film spanning 2 generations of life in an Innuit village. It was excellent, and if you have 3 hours free in an evening coming up, put it on your list of movies to rent! I also saw Fubar recently, and Ghost World. Fubar might only appeal to the Canadian reader contingent of Sparkle Sparkle because its about a couple of metal heads in Edmonton or someplace like that so if you dont understand what they're all about, you might not think the movie is funny. Ghostworld will appeal to the high school kid in you if you were an idealistic, slightly rebellious, sarcastic and cool (but not to others) kind of kid. Both were a giggle, and Steve Buscemi is in Ghost World so enough said, really.

I have my photog class tonight, and I was all prepared to make a new contact sheet that I was sure was going to have really great head shots of some of my friends who agreed to let me stick a camera in their face until I realised that I didnt use a bounce flash and that their faces are sure to turn out as big white blobs. Sigh. Of course I only thought of that after I shot a roll - me lose brain? I'm learning by experience tho, right?

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