Well, here's me and the man...


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In honour of my disastrous-yet-strangely-successful job interview in Toronto this past weekend, I decided to use one of the most unattractive and creepy photo's of myself. One day when I finally pop and i go insane, this is how I plan to look laughing maniacally in the street. Or I might go with clown make-up...it's wide open!

Be seeing you...

Tomorrow I take the long slow train to Toronto...

The next day I get dragged through the gauntlet...

...three days of being measured....

...metal tested against the anvil...

...let the bells ring!

"Let's go."
--Pike, 'The Wild Bunch'

Be seeing you...

So next Sunday is the Oscars. Now I pretty much have a love/hate relationship with the yearly show. For one, I hate the hoopla that the celebrities get as they walk down the friggin carpet, soaking up camera exposure. I hate how smug they look, how they're just rolling in the fat of their million-dollar (baby) lifestyles. On the other hand, I am a ( Read more... )

Got myself two interviews coming up for teaching jobs in Japan. I'm going to have to do them in Toronto, meaning a 3 night stay at a hotel. It'll be like a mini version of the grand trip to come. The first interview sounds like quite the trial, as on the third day (if I make it to then, seems like there will be quite the compitition lined up for ( Read more... )

A few days back I recieved an email from a Japanese company I applied to. They are asking if I can make it to an interview in Toronto sometime in March. If all goes well, this could be the doorway that leads to the Big Move overseas. Either this, or I apply for a job in Tawain that seems to be asking for less effort than this one, though all my ( Read more... )

Howdy. This past weekend I visited my sister and bro-in-law in Illinois. They live in a small, I say, small town about an hour outside of Chicago. Its a nice place to visit, with a main street that reminded me of old west ghost towns and a kind of quiet, sleepy friendliness one can always find in the citizens of quaint midwest dwellings ( Read more... )

Well, this is my first official posting on this thing, and I have to admit it's quite awkward. People who use lj seem to go on about everything that's going on in and outside their head at that moment, as though the world were their personal audience at every posting. Me, I figure the only people who will see this will mostly be those I force to. ( Read more... )

Wow. My first entry. Cool. Not much to reveal as of the moment, just wanted to give this thing a spin. Can't wait to write something interesting.