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To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
- Woody Allen

If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
- Dorothy Parker

When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults.
- Confucius

April 25, 2005

First things first. My youngest sister came into town yesterday, so she, my other sister (who lives just down the street) and I spent a delightful afternoon sipping brews at my local and playing in the photobooth. It's about time I had some company in there - hopefully this will encourage more guest appearances!

The other quasi-exciting development at the moment is that I have just been invited to an interview at an English school downtown. I'm almost annoyed at how easy it was to get a call back for the position - after six months of sending resumes to all manner of organizations with no response, I send one to a school and get a call the very next business day. Would that changing careers were so simple.
Not that I'm counting my chickens before they've hatched, but I realize that I am now going to have to spend a significant portion of my soldering wages to buy new work clothes. I rather doubt that jeans and T-shirts with frayed collars are going to cut it at this institution. Then again, summer in Vancouver is notoriously casual.
The prospect of returning to a regular job is a little hard to wrap my mind around at the moment. After such an extended period of ample free time punctuated by brief interludes of random labour, I wonder how long it will take to readjust to the daily grind. I'm doubly curious to know just how long it will take before my bitter and cynical side surfaces again. You know it's bound to happen, it's simply a matter of time - can't deny my true nature, now can I?

Cynic, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
- Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for - in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
- Ellen DeGeneres

It's good to know that at least I'm not alone. But for now, it's off to practice: ultimate season is here, and I've got to start canning some whoop-ass for upcoming tournaments.

April 22, 2005

Hoo boy. This is sure to smoothe things over between China and Japan. However, it does take two to tango. Can't wait to see what these kids come up with next - the whole affair is starting to appear a little too farcical for my tastes.

Anyway, it's a gorgeous Friday afternoon, and I've just completed my stint as a battery assembler. Over five days, I took a pile of assorted components and transformed them into a pile of portable battery packs - and it was a whole lot more fun than it sounds. I am now quite skilled in the arcane art of soldering, have increased the nimbleness of my fingers and developed a knack for locating hidden screwholes by touch alone. And I only ran the drill bit through my finger once. I've so upped my Tech Geek quotient.
It looks like I've also landed work as a teacher - albeit quasi-accidentally. I know I've railed against going back into teaching full-time, but the bills continue to accumulate and I'm fast approaching the end of my EI claim. Upon careful deliberation, I realized that this is not so much a step backwards as it is a step sideways; it'll help me get back onto my feet, at which point I can start moving forward in earnest. Undeniably an endeavour long overdue.
This is not to say I am giving up on my creative efforts - I'm just putting food on the table so I can continue to collect rejection slips from publishers across the continent. I'm thinking about starting a scrapbook, actually. I also intent to continue sending out applications to jobs that I am nowhere near qualified for; I figure sooner or later, I'm bound to pull the wool over somebody's eyes.

But we'll see. Who knows - I might not even get the job. I might not even take the job, even. I will, however, continue to hit the photobooth every chance I get. That's got to count for something.