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2. You haven’t played solitaire with real cards in years.

3. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of 3.

4. You e-mail the person who works at the desk next to you.

5. Your reason for not staying in touch with friends and family is
that they don’t have e-mail addresses.

6. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home to help you carry in the groceries.

7. Every commercial on television has a website at the bottom of the screen.

8. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 (or 60) years of your life, is now a cause for panic and you turn around to go and get it.

10. You get up in the morning and go on line before getting your coffee.

11. You start tilting your head sideways to smile.

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12. You’re reading this and nodding and laughing.

13. Even worse, you know exactly to whom you are going to forward this message.

14. You are too busy to notice there was no #9 on this list.

15. You actually scrolled back up to check that there wasn’t a #9
on this list

AND NOW YOU ARE LAUGHING at yourself.

new experience today.
I went to an ‘investment meeting’-ish type thing today with my dad.
like one of those ‘it’ll change your life’ things that you hear about on the radio or on tv.

it was interesting.

for one, the sales guy (also the president of the product) was good, and had some FUN sayings!
like, in response to ‘the early bird gets the worm’, he said, “it’s the second mouse who gets the cheese.”
i love that one.

or, ‘hope is a great breakfast, not a great supper’.
or, ‘you don’t try to catch a knife when it’s falling, you wait until it falls and then pick it up.”
or, ‘trees don’t grow to heaven’ (trends can’t go up forever)

anyways, i’m new to the whole ’sales pitch’ thing, so it all sounded VERY convincing to me!
if i was rolling in the dough i would’ve totally bought the software they were selling!!

so my newest thing is that i want to go live up North! (again)
I checked out The Yukon and discovered that it’s called the ‘land of the midnight sun’.
My mom told me that’s b/c it’s daylight even at 12am!!
well i was SHOCKED AND APPALLED about that!

and then later in the day i was talking my parents and speculating about whether they have reallly low rates of depression in the Yukon, compared to “dreary” places like Vancouver or Seattle or England.
and my mom was like, ‘well, they probably have higher depression rates b/c of the darkness during the day during the winter’
and i was like, ‘WHAT are you talking about?!”

then my mom was shocked and appalled that i didn’t know more about the Yukon.
and i was shocked that people could live in darkness all day.

anyways, long story short, i discovered that the govt has some CRAZY good benefits for people who want to move and live/work in the north!
first of all, great salary. plus the ‘northern tax benefit’. then intro vacation time for govt jobs is 4 weeks! and after 2 yrs you get $2000/yr travel money.
they’re currently looking for nurses to go up there.

it seems to me like nursing is a great field to get into these days.
that and engineering seem to be really big.

he thought that i was going to Toronto to start the internship today, so when i talked to him on the phone later on in the day and told him that i didn’t go, he was like, “good for you!”

haha.

he’s like outraged at the amount of money that the company would be paying a ‘university graduate.’

“for that amount of money you’d be better off staying home and sleeping!”

… “someone should report them to the government!”

lol!

basically every day from now on is going to have some kind of weather crisis.

today’s crisis: “Extreme Heat Warning”

as opposed to a regular heat alert.
then of course there’s a humidity warning, smog warning, fog warning, tornado warning…

granted, today was ridiculous. the actual temperature was in the 30s, but it felt like 40 (degrees celsius) with the humidity.

it’s days like this when i seriously consider moving to the Yukon.
or Nunavut!

so of course, i picked today to go dropping off resumes at random businesses.

actually, the whole thing was kinda pointless b/c i went to a couple of HUGE corporations that obviously have website with their job postings on them.
but i feel like, if some random manager on the 14th floor decides that they need a bit of help for the next 4 months, are they REALLY going to go through all the trouble of posting it online and then getting 100s of responses and having to sift through those?

i say, “no”.

heh, what they’d probably do though is bypass HR all together and hire their son/daugther.
or the kid of someone in the department.
oh well.

so i went into the Oracle office building.
it was BE-A-UTIFUL!! (that’s me, putting an emphasis in the word)

so, the whole reason i went out and did that this afternoon was b/c i had an interview downtown.
like, hardcore downtown Toronto… having to take the subway and all that.
well, first of all, the job was an internship.
and i had been blindly applying to these internships and then when the guy called me last week for an interview, i said ‘yes’ but then realized afterwards that the job pays next to nothing, and is all the way across town, AND isn’t even that good of a position!
well, i decided to go to the interview anyways, for the experience, but mostly b/c i said i would.
and then i made my way to the subway station bright and early in the morning, fighting traffic the whole way, and the parking lots were full!

and seeing as how i don’t know how to get to any of the other subway stations, i called the guy and cancelled the interview and drove back home.

boooourns…
that’s okay though.
i just have to remember the next time I apply to Bell Canada that i’m probably on their black list.

The Daily Show: I love Jon Stewart, but after seeing a few episodes, i can securely say that i don’t like the show. the humour is a bit too crude for my tastes.

Late Night with Conan O’Brien: HILARIOUS! even without saying a thing, this guy is so funny! i just sit there cracking up. outrageous.

The Late, late show with Craig Ferguson: I never thought I’d enjoy this show. but i heard that his intro monologues go on and on forever, so i thought i’d watch and see.
and i love it!
it might be his accent…. but everything he says seems to be hilarious!
or maybe it’s the way he says them. (like his facial expressions)
even though he seems to have the ‘worst’ guests, the show is still interesting/comical.

anyways, today was an “interesting” day.
i was miserable/upset for most of it.
sometimes i wonder how my parents put up with me. I mean, yeah, i’m upbeat the majority of the time, but when i get into those ‘downer’ moods it’s PRETTY bad! if i do say so myself. then again, maybe i just think they’re really bad b/c i’m the one experiencing them…
so all is good now though.

after church today i went to a lunch for ‘young adult women’
it was fairly awkward… definitely not comfortable.
i guess b/c i used to live with people who were around 26-28yrs old and so i feel like i should be able to socialize with other people who are around the late 20s - early 30s age group.
but perhaps it just doesn’t work that way.

or maybe i was uncomfortable b/c the first thing one person said to me was ‘i used to babysit you!’
that makes you feel uncomfortably young!
then again… i’m sure my presense there made her feel really old too.

it’s final!

I HAVE GRADUATED!!

was there doubt?

yes.
in my mind i thought it might not happen.
even after getting my final marks back
i thought, maybe there’s a hitch?

but my records now have a section that says ‘Degrees Awarded’ and my bank of montreal degree is there!
weeee!!!!

getting out of bed early in the morning is proving to be harder than i anticipated.
I have such good intentions when i set my alarm clock and go to sleep.
…and then the alarm clock rings and its just way too early.

i should probably start with going to sleep earlier…

so today’s thursday about i haven’t made a decision about the drop-in centre yet.
boo…

maybe i’ll ‘re-teach’ myself guitar this summer!!

so i remember talking to some people at school like 3 months ago and we were joking about how we’re not qualified for any jobs.
and one of the people mentioned how her mom had solicited resumes for a job opening at her company, and she got all kinds of people responding… people who were not even trained in the same area… or even a close area. (like looking for a receptionist and getting a response from a chef.)

well, the girl i was talking to said that her goal was now to be the best of the worst
and i’ve taken that with me throughout my job search.

i’m applying to a governement job right now.
the process takes FOREVER b/c there’s a bunch of questions you have to answer… questions asking you how much experience you have with basically every task related to the position, and when you last performed that task.

well, as i’m filling out this current questionnaire, i keep repeating to myself ‘the best of the worst, the best of the worst’ as my goal. b/c i have to keep putting ‘0 experience/ not applicable’ as my response.
and that’s kinda disheartening.

I don’t know why I do it.
i’m clearly tired and want to go to sleep.

…i guess it usually happens on days when I haven’t done a good ‘job search’ during the day and i feel like i should get something accomplished (job application-wise) for that day.

i think it’s silly though, b/c i tend to write differently. like i use sentence structures that I know I wouldn’t usually use, but i don’t see anything wrong with them.

anyways, for fans of old time tv, “Wings” is coming out on dvd!

funny thing about that name ‘Wings’.
I remember i used to watch the show a lot.
and my family used to vacation down in South/North Carolina and Florida etc.
There were stores down there named ‘Wings’ and I remember loving them b/c they were so random.

and then i remember one of the last times I went in one of those stores, there was a ‘KKK supporter’ type sticker on the front door.

hmmm…. memories.

hey, whatever happened to that Ally McBeal actress?
Is anyone else suprised that, that show isn’t out on dvd yet?!!
it seemed to make quite a stir back in the day.
haha, the randomness.
i liked the dancing baby.