Handling the situation

Interview one at Gaba corps. down, two more to go! And I feel good about it to, although it was freakin' stressful as hell! Which is odd for me, because I usually don't get stressed out for interviews, I just go in and do my thing; if they like it, they like it. They don't, they don't. No big deal. And thus far in my life I have had very few turn downs. So why was this time different? Was it perhaps because everyone you saw working there looked like a bunch of stiff backed office workers in suits? Partially.

Two reasons:

I couldn't get my damn lip stud out. I tried and tried after I got out of the shower. Tried again before I left. Tried on the train, tried in the bathroom at the office. No luck. The little bugger just wouldn't come loose! So I had no choice but to go into the interview with it in, knowing full well that this would be major points docked off the first impression scale. I think I explained the situation well enough though, and repeated that I could take it out; it was just wanting to ruin my day today. I think they understood. I hope.

Second reason: I don't have a suit. Knew that the dress code was suits from my friend that works there but didn't want to go out and buy one. The nice lady that interviewed me (and what I mean by interview is that it was more like them checking to see that I have all the correct documents, i.e. valid visa, work permit, etc) commented on it and told me to buy one for the next interview (if i'm so lucky) so as to make a better impression. Great, thanks. Get right on that (I caved and bought one right after I left...way to stick it to the man, Jamie).

All in all though, it wasn't that bad. They gave us a little power point presentation about the company, how schedules work, pay rates, etc. Then the documents check/interview thing. Then they had us do this little "test" in which one of the questions was about grammar and turning the word "TEACH" into it's various forms, i.e. present perfect, past perfect continuous, etc. Good things for an English teacher/ Linguistics major to know, right? Yeah well...I haven't taken any grammar classes yet. And by the looks of the other contestants they hadn't either so, i'm thinking I'll be okay.

Thank you officer, you're so
helpful and not intimidating!

Tomorrow I have another interview with a different English teaching company but I have no idea where they are located. The guy on the phone failed to do his job and send me an email right after we hung up that had all the details I need to know. And of course I can't find an email address for these guys anywhere and of course I forgot that I have their number logged into my phone until after office hours today. Sigh...oh well, I'll ask at the Koban (police station) tomorrow for directions. Those guys are always so helpful and not intimidating.






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Braaaaains 

In other unrelated news, I just got done watching "The Walking Dead" and OMG what took them so long to make this!? I know i'm a little slow to hop on this band wagon but hey, it came out after I left the country so I had to wait until the series was over in order to download it and watch it in all it's glory. But only 6 episodes!?! What is this, the UK?! Jeez....

But seriously, this show blew my mind. They had just the right amount of gore; not to much to make it seem fake/ridiculous, but just enough to make you go "ewwwwwww". And the story line isn't that bad either. Started off a bit like 28 days later with the whole waking up in the hospital to find the world infested with zombies (well I guess in 28 days they weren't so much zombies as just rabid human monster things), but it took off after that. I really want to know what happened to that father and son he met. And those "gangster" nurses were priceless. Zombies look just like they do in my dreams (what, you don't have dreams about zombies?). I thought the plot was going to fail though when they got to that research building. I thought "oh no, is it going to be a Biohazard type thing?" but no, it wasn't and i'm glad. I look forward to the second season (they are making a second season right?!)

I'm interested in the comic though, has anyone read it?













Oh, and by the way, I got my lip ring out. I cut the mother off with wire cutters FTW.

PEACE
Jamie