Won $8.
Spent $10.

Still not sure how the horse betting system works or what a "Quinella" is. It's like a science, only one that's been developed in close consultation with a few bottles of whisky.

And I only got $7.20 instead of $8. I assume they take out 10% as taxes, or fees, or to buy airspace for all the big horseracing hats.

From an online application form:
Company Values

The way we conduct our business is just as important to us as the business itself, and to support this we have developed a set of core values.

Customer first

Courage

Team work

Excellence

Accountability

Courage? What exactly is so courageous about retail ( Read more... )

( Hisself? It's 'himself' you stupid handwriting test. )

How come I didn't get newspaper coverage two years ago?

And if I was working there, I'd cover the 11 year old instead.

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Today I got a letter, which said that HECS has been renamed to HECS-HELP and, to celebrate, I'll have to fill out a form. If I don't send it back within 10 working days, they will make me watch the O.C. until my sex changes. So what did the form ask for to warrant such terrible punishment? Name, course, tax file number; top secret facts known only ( Read more... )

Today I handed out my resume to a couple of shops in the city, thinking they may require casuals for Christmas. For Gowings, I had to fill out a whole test with questions like ( Read more... )

Wow, there are 570 French news about John Howard and only 130 about Jacques Derrida. So much for postmodernism.

Stupid people. Can't even vote right.

I meant to be super productive today, but instead I found out that according to Le Diet, my Body Mass Index is 20.6. Also, Rome: Total War is uploading way faster than it's being downloaded. There should be a BitTorrent Party promising complete equality of uploads and downloads.