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Saved! is finally opening in Lund, a year or so after its original release. I consider going to see it even though I have the DVD, which is very strange of me.
The only review quote in the ad was from Christian Spotlight: "Extremely offensive." This amuses me, but it also worries me, since I'm not sure the people attracted to that quote would actually like the film - I've seen several reviewers complain that it's not offensive enough: too sweet, too middle-of-the-road. They were expecting a rant against Christianity and got a Kumbayah.
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The employment exchange (ha!) website has some old versions of högskoleprovet - a test you can take before entering university in Sweden. You don't have to; applicants are divided into quotas where grades are one, the test is another, previous academic experience is a third, and so on. Since my grades were so good, I'd never taken the test before. Being unemployed and bored, I decided to try it out.
I got 1,9 on the first test, 2,0 on the second. (1,0 is the average for each year.) Even though I haven't done maths in six years, I did pretty well on the maths questions, and my reading comprehension was nearly flawless.
It was gratifying, but also extremely annoying, because wtf? I can get top scores on a test in maybe a third of the time I'm supposed to spend on it, but I can't get a god-damned job in the field I was educated for?
It sounds like bragging. It is bragging. But then, I'd much rather think that employers are idiots than that I'm no use.
The only review quote in the ad was from Christian Spotlight: "Extremely offensive." This amuses me, but it also worries me, since I'm not sure the people attracted to that quote would actually like the film - I've seen several reviewers complain that it's not offensive enough: too sweet, too middle-of-the-road. They were expecting a rant against Christianity and got a Kumbayah.
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The employment exchange (ha!) website has some old versions of högskoleprovet - a test you can take before entering university in Sweden. You don't have to; applicants are divided into quotas where grades are one, the test is another, previous academic experience is a third, and so on. Since my grades were so good, I'd never taken the test before. Being unemployed and bored, I decided to try it out.
I got 1,9 on the first test, 2,0 on the second. (1,0 is the average for each year.) Even though I haven't done maths in six years, I did pretty well on the maths questions, and my reading comprehension was nearly flawless.
It was gratifying, but also extremely annoying, because wtf? I can get top scores on a test in maybe a third of the time I'm supposed to spend on it, but I can't get a god-damned job in the field I was educated for?
It sounds like bragging. It is bragging. But then, I'd much rather think that employers are idiots than that I'm no use.