Adventures in Reading...

What a waste of time at the job centre! After waiting an hour and a half to make sure I was the first in line, I would up being last due to my "situation" and had to wait over two hours to see anyone. And what a mean old woman I got! She told me "you probably don't even qualify because you've been gone so long." I actually thought I didn't anyway, but she was so mean, and what with the um... situation here with benefit fraud by... other people, I was more than a little anoyed. I have so see someone else, and one more person in another department. So I should have any money that I might be entitled to by about christmas... 2009.

I went to the dog track friday night with about £8, and at one point I had £20! But of course, I fell into the trap. I lost £10 on a long shot and thought, "ohh, I'd better get that back" and promptly lost again and left with about £3. So I look at is as if I spent £5 on a good night out. Although £20 would have come in more than handy at the moment. Lesson learned.

Job Centre

Moving on, I have to get to the job centre really early (like 9 a.m.) to be one of the first magic six people to get an interview, otherwise I have to wait untill september.

Oh yeah, anyone with a y chromosome needs to check out THIS!!

Jobs on horizon

I might get a job at HMV to keep me going. HMV is a movie/cd/games store in case you were wondering. If they give me some crap like "You're not qualified enough for this job with your seven years customer service experience and your degree in digital media" I'll bugger off the the T-Mobile shop, who is also hiring, and get myself a fancy phone.

Oh yeah!!!! VH1 classic over here has VH1's old logo, but that's not the best part! They have 'Pop Up Video'! Yeah!!! I watched it today and it had the "I Would Do Anything For Love" video my Meat Loaf, and guess who directed it? That's right! Michael Bay! Everyone's favorite something-needs-to-blow-up-soon-or-I'll-have-a-heart-attack Michael fuckin Bay! And get this! He's directing the live action Transformers movie! The script looks like it's going to suck balls, but who gives a crap! It's Michael Bay people! Yeah!!!

Yeah!!!!

Day out in Reading

I got lost about three times, but I found what I was looking for; a job at HMV. I asked the manager and he sounded very serious about hiring people and did I have a CV. Of course I didn't because I'm used to retailers having application forms, so he said to come back and give it straight to him or one of the team leaders. So now I havwe to make a custom resume for HMV, which I can also drop of at 'The' Megastore. That sounds interesting doesn't it? Eh?

Yesterday was... fun. I babysat the kids. The less said there the better I think.

Oh and the was an Aston Martin DB9 parked outside Clare's work. And and e39 M5 around the side. I wonder...

In Reading now

I'm at Clare's. It's all go over here. I've had tea spilled on me, wrestled by two kids, one of them nearly go run over, and the experience at the supermarket was... um, interesting.

Hopefully I will get a job soon and have money to buy things like the good bread at the shop, instead of the not-so-great bread, and shop brand butter. I also plan on buying 'Jake The Rapper' of course. I think 'Hoem movies is out on dvd as well, so I'm looking forward to buying that, and of course 'Killer7'. That's the future of gaming right there. Everything I could ask for.

Last day in Watford

It's my last day in Watford! I'm leaving for Reading tomorrow, after I watche Ministry of Mayhem of course!

I was suprised how much I could fit in my big case, but then I realised I still had washing in the machine. I'm going to look like Arnold by the time I get there as the cases are so heavy.

Let's hope part-time job prospects of there are better than they are around here. What is cool is that once I get on the train, it's not very far in London, so I won't be loosing that. However it will be waaay more expensive, as I have to take busses to the train station and the train ticket is about £8.

Ricky Gervais of 'The Office' fame has a new show out next week, which all will be watching. I hope it's not crap, but after reading interviews with him, I don't think it will be.

Last week in Watford

Where will I be by the end of the week? Sway? London? Reading? Your guess is as good as mine.

I went out with Lewis and one of his mates on saturday night for a 'pub crawl'. In case you were wondering, it's when you go to a pub, have a pint, go to another pub, do the same, and repeat. It's not something I'd do all the time, but it was fun. We met up with these guys Lewis knew from school who were really funny and we just jumped around to different pubs. I at one point I got out my long distance card to prank call the apartment in Orlando, only to find I had forgotten the number. And when I woke up I realized the number had been cancelled anyway. Ah well.

I'M ALIVE

Don't worry folks, I wasn't in central London when the bombs went off. I was watching 'Homes Under The Hammer' when it got interrputed with the news. All transport in London was shut down for a few hours, but luckily no one I know got hurt.

Props to the emergency crews who did a fantastic jobs of helping everyone calmly and with amazing efficiency. Props too, for Londoners who didn't panic and who worked with saftey crews to make sure everyone got to hospital.

What's interesting to note, is that even though all public transport was completely shut down, busses were working by the afternoon (except to the affected areas) and were free. In addition, landline trains also resumed serivice by the afternoon, even running a train in and out of King's Cross. This morning the tube is back up, except for the Circle, Hammersmith & City, and the Metro after Baker Street. It certainly makes you proud to see people returning to normal so quickly. The news said by mid afternoon, nealry everyone was back to normal and going to work, or going shopping. What did affect everyone though, was the transport, with roads outside London gridlocked and many people just getting a hotel room for the night. Heck, even the BBC News 24 coverage, which was showing on all BBC channels, switched back to normal by around 5 o'clock.

Take that terrorists.

Live 8 and more

Looks like my plans may change even more from the last post. I've almost given up planning.

According to the statistics, half the planet watched Live 8 on saturday, so I don't need to tell you about that. Needless to say, ours was probably better.

I've spent the day going to each and every recruiter in the high street. What's funny is this is one of the few times since I arrived here that I got what I expected. None of them could help me. One did recomend me to another agency somewhere on the other side of town, so I've sent my resume to them. I wonder how that will turn out.

I watched this reality program last night about these dudes who go through a month f basic training to join the French Foreign Legion. It was pretty cool as it was a reality show for guys. There was none of that stupid 'talk to the camera' crap, and it as narrated by one of the guys who also was in the Brtish Army. Tonight is 'at least your life isnt this crap' night on BBC1. They show documentry programs on people who's lives are very hard work, like mental patients and parents with autistic children. Then aften that it's a show about parents with screwed up teenage children. It's nearly always the parents fault.

It's that or the Trevor McDonald interview with Bush. The less said there the better.

Change of plans...

Rorey's here! That's Lewis's brother, in case you didn't know. Which you probably didn't. Now here's the change of plans. I din't get the job with the frickin pub becuase the bank account took too long and they had to give it to these kids who just came back from holiday. The dude said he wanted me to have it, and if I want, in about two weeks, kids go on holiday again. So I went to find other part-time jobs around here, but no luck.

So I decided to move back where I used to live. I'm probably gonna go in about two weeks. It will hopefully be easier to find a job down there, and I won't have to live Anne Frank style hoping to not get caught by the owners of the place. I will miss living so close to London though. And I will miss being walking distance away from town (I'll have to take the train everywhere down there). To be honest, I'd rather stay up here. I've gotten used to it, I know where everything is, and I don't need a car. But that's life I guess.