Stop searching, start texting.
"Stop searching, start texting." That's what the new billboard out the window from me says. Yes Toronto, your local phone companies just want to remind you this holiday season, that it is actually pointless to try to find an affordable phone plan with which you can actually use your phone for it's intended purpose (that is, to make voice calls), because it's just not worth it. You should just resign yourself to finding services offering cheap text messages. Welcome to the new Tokyo. GAR!
Last night I dreamed about exciting accessibility devices for seniors. An exciting new toilet bed, that allows you to use the loo in the middle of the night without leaving the comfort of your own bed (it was kind of like one of those water massager tube things, in my dream). And a very exciting bathtub that you could be plonked into directly after waking up through a series of exciting levers and dials. I also had a strange dream involving someone's cabin, but I don't remember most of it, just a sense of urgent need to change the sheets on a bed, for politeness sake, before sleeping in it.
This morning, before having my coffee, I caved in and took this "Tibetan Personality Test" thing, because sometimes I do stuff like that before I've had any coffee. Here is what it had to say about me.
In terms of life priorities, I value, in this order: pride, money, family, love, and then career. That sure doesn't make me a very nice person. I suppose deep down I've always known that I wasn't a very nice person though. I suppose the fact that I value money highly, but career last might explain certain life issues I have had too. Hmmm. Other entertaining tidbits from the test include the fact that it claims that I see Jo as sleek. I'm not sure how to take that. Does that mean that I think of Jo as being least resistant to fluid flowing? Is that saying something about how quickly he showers? Or maybe it means that I think of him as a magical beast from D&D? I'm pretty sure I don't think of him as smooth and shiny. The quiz results also declared that my enemies are smart (darn), that Ruth is my true love, my mother is my true soulmate, and that Jo is someone I'll never forget. (Possibly due to his sleekness?) It also said that if I sent the link to 23 of my dearest friends (like I have 23 dearest friends) that my wish (to be done with this confounding job hunt) would come true on Wednesday. Har har har. In case you are just dying to try the test now yourself (sucker) then it is at: http://memoriter.net/flash/test.html I should also warn you that the test plays really depressing music the whole time, and requires a pen and paper (fancy that!).
In other news, the job hunt continues. Yesterday, I got to be reassured that I can still do long division of ridiculous numbers on paper, even if it does make me very very grumpy. I am pretty good at doing approximate math in my head, which is generally quite useful, and I am often within very small degrees of accuracy when doing so. But exact math on paper makes me grumpy. Why was I doing this? Well, it was for this long test that they make you take as a pre-evaluation test to work for any of the SIR Corp restaurants. It is sort of a generic math / english competency test combined with a psychological evaluation thing. In case you are curios, SIR Corp owns a lot of stuff. Here is what their website says they own (but it also says they have over 40 restaurants, so there is probably more):
"Jack Astor’s® Bar and Grill, Alice Fazooli’s® Italian Grill, Canyon Creek® Chop House, Brasserie Frisco™, the casual Loose Moose Tap & Grill® and fine dining restaurants reds® and Far Niente®."
The only thing I've seen like this test before was the one at the Cheesecake Factory (don't know if they still make you take that thing) and it was freakishly similar. I wonder if they used the same company for the test or something. Anyhow, I went in to take the test the other day, and then threw around a few more resume's around Queen West after picking up a diode for Jo. I'm not feeling the Queen West vibe, but you never know. I am like, the resume' slut of Toronto. I think I've given out nearly 40 resume's so far, and more if you count email. Fortunately, there are a lot of restaurants in this town. Unfortunately, everyone really wants experienced help. Imbeciles! Don't they know I am the coolest person ever and would be perfect for any job?
Today I'm going further east on Queen than I did last time to seek out new venues to drop my resume by. The fun never ends. At least after that, I will have covered most of the areas that I'm interested in. I may be overlooking a few places, but then I'll just sit back and do all that accounting that I really don't want to deal with for it will be messy. My accounting software is horribly broken, and causing me much pain and suffering.
Enough about all this though, I promised that I'd post more about the exciting hat rack that Jo made. So, without further ado,
I was going to write a sonnet, really I was, but I have to get going now, so maybe a sonnet later. Also, Jo put up a shelf for me in the office, which the cats are now using as both a display platform, and access to my dried flowers (they're really tasty).
Last night I dreamed about exciting accessibility devices for seniors. An exciting new toilet bed, that allows you to use the loo in the middle of the night without leaving the comfort of your own bed (it was kind of like one of those water massager tube things, in my dream). And a very exciting bathtub that you could be plonked into directly after waking up through a series of exciting levers and dials. I also had a strange dream involving someone's cabin, but I don't remember most of it, just a sense of urgent need to change the sheets on a bed, for politeness sake, before sleeping in it.
This morning, before having my coffee, I caved in and took this "Tibetan Personality Test" thing, because sometimes I do stuff like that before I've had any coffee. Here is what it had to say about me.
In terms of life priorities, I value, in this order: pride, money, family, love, and then career. That sure doesn't make me a very nice person. I suppose deep down I've always known that I wasn't a very nice person though. I suppose the fact that I value money highly, but career last might explain certain life issues I have had too. Hmmm. Other entertaining tidbits from the test include the fact that it claims that I see Jo as sleek. I'm not sure how to take that. Does that mean that I think of Jo as being least resistant to fluid flowing? Is that saying something about how quickly he showers? Or maybe it means that I think of him as a magical beast from D&D? I'm pretty sure I don't think of him as smooth and shiny. The quiz results also declared that my enemies are smart (darn), that Ruth is my true love, my mother is my true soulmate, and that Jo is someone I'll never forget. (Possibly due to his sleekness?) It also said that if I sent the link to 23 of my dearest friends (like I have 23 dearest friends) that my wish (to be done with this confounding job hunt) would come true on Wednesday. Har har har. In case you are just dying to try the test now yourself (sucker) then it is at: http://memoriter.net/flash/test.html I should also warn you that the test plays really depressing music the whole time, and requires a pen and paper (fancy that!).
In other news, the job hunt continues. Yesterday, I got to be reassured that I can still do long division of ridiculous numbers on paper, even if it does make me very very grumpy. I am pretty good at doing approximate math in my head, which is generally quite useful, and I am often within very small degrees of accuracy when doing so. But exact math on paper makes me grumpy. Why was I doing this? Well, it was for this long test that they make you take as a pre-evaluation test to work for any of the SIR Corp restaurants. It is sort of a generic math / english competency test combined with a psychological evaluation thing. In case you are curios, SIR Corp owns a lot of stuff. Here is what their website says they own (but it also says they have over 40 restaurants, so there is probably more):
"Jack Astor’s® Bar and Grill, Alice Fazooli’s® Italian Grill, Canyon Creek® Chop House, Brasserie Frisco™, the casual Loose Moose Tap & Grill® and fine dining restaurants reds® and Far Niente®."
The only thing I've seen like this test before was the one at the Cheesecake Factory (don't know if they still make you take that thing) and it was freakishly similar. I wonder if they used the same company for the test or something. Anyhow, I went in to take the test the other day, and then threw around a few more resume's around Queen West after picking up a diode for Jo. I'm not feeling the Queen West vibe, but you never know. I am like, the resume' slut of Toronto. I think I've given out nearly 40 resume's so far, and more if you count email. Fortunately, there are a lot of restaurants in this town. Unfortunately, everyone really wants experienced help. Imbeciles! Don't they know I am the coolest person ever and would be perfect for any job?
Today I'm going further east on Queen than I did last time to seek out new venues to drop my resume by. The fun never ends. At least after that, I will have covered most of the areas that I'm interested in. I may be overlooking a few places, but then I'll just sit back and do all that accounting that I really don't want to deal with for it will be messy. My accounting software is horribly broken, and causing me much pain and suffering.
Enough about all this though, I promised that I'd post more about the exciting hat rack that Jo made. So, without further ado,
I was going to write a sonnet, really I was, but I have to get going now, so maybe a sonnet later. Also, Jo put up a shelf for me in the office, which the cats are now using as both a display platform, and access to my dried flowers (they're really tasty).