H-h-Okay

If you're going to read this please read it all, even if that means you read 1/2 and then come back to read the next 1/2 later.

My mind, if I even have one, is about to run loose. *Stares at the wall with a blank face*

Whoa. okay. Yes, as I was saying.. anything I'm thinking or have been doing will probably be in this post. So if you want some good inspiration for the HSC or a short film or even something to do rather than sit on your ass, then here it comes (not 'cums', Blake) in random orders....


The Christmas holidays. The further away from New Years it got, the lazier I became. Occationally spending days on end inside the house. Sometimes getting so bored I would just sit at my computer for comfort. This was when I wasn't with Sarah or other friends like Chris L, Matt F, Paige, Tammy, Craig P, Craig T & Shezz (the main people that get upto fun with me and understand how weird I am, kinda).

But since school ended for The Class of 2004 I've hardly seen any of my grade. Which isn't what I wanted. We plan these wild missions to capture on video during holidays, but when the holidays come we forget or don't have time.

There's also people like Candace whom work alllll the timmme. I mean they'd be rich enough to afford an $82,000 car but there's time needed for socialism tooooo. I wanna be rich darn-garnet.
You see I've never, ever had a job like most other kiddies have. The legal, or whatever, age to begin working in Australia is 14yrs and 9months. Well it was when I was that age because everyone counts down to it. Just like counting down the days til our drivers licenses.
Moreover, I HAVE been out there over the years occationally putting job applications & resumes into stores but, sadly, I have not received any replies.
The second most recent job searching I've done was when I was just flipping through the Manly Daily (our local paper) and reading all the interesting articles until I came to the job classifieds which I proceeded to read. I came across a group interview for people whom could work during prime times (Thursday night - late night shopping, and the weekend) at City Beach in about a week from that day. I decided 'Hey, I'm going to this!'
At the interview there were about 40-50 people and I knew some of them. We were just told to stand up one at a time and state our name, cell phone number, and why we would want to work at a surf/skate store etc. I got a few laughs from the crowd which was a positive. :) I was called back for a trial. Yipppie! All signs led to I'd have this job. I did the trial and I cleaned up my section pretty damn good! After about 45mins into the trial I was asked to assist in rearranging all the caps into styles (flexifit & trucker) and brands (surf & skate). The guy, Stacey, who told me to do this didn't tell me anything else besides the requirements I just wrote.
I got stuck into it. After I while I got into a SLIGHT rut. There's brands: Independent, there's styles: trucker, and there's a model: (no idea. How good am I for the job, hey!)
I wasn't told anything about arranging models. I just put all the Trucker caps on one stand and the flexifits on the other stand, and a mix of both on the 3rd stand. I arranged them by brand and put all the models together on the stand.
Lets see if I can explain; If there was model A and it came in green, blue, and black. I would try and fit all the colours on the same pole-thingo. This is if there weren't enough for a colour-per-pole layout. This was fine. I could handle this. But when there's only ONE model R in the WHOLE cap area it's rather difficult to just put one cap on a pole so I'd just add it to a pole of the same brand. 9pm (closing time) came along and I was about 15mins from having a completely perfect cap area. But I was told to stop and fix some pants on hangers. Which was really simple and I made them sooo neat! I don't think Stacey was impressed by the way I did the caps even though I did an amazing job with what I had.
Also, my section had the girls bags in it. And how they're hung is the most stupid freaking design ever (and I'm not just complaining)! They have the same length poles as the caps and the poles are only slightly more spread apart than the caps. Thus, they are all squished up against each other and the poles should only hold about 4-5 bags maximum but on some poles there had to fit upto 10 bags! Which was impossible; I'd put one bag back on a pole and it would knock another bag down. I was beginning to think this place would need a major Derek-overhaul!
This was a paid trial, so that's good. It's been over two weeks since the trial and therefore I should be paid (I'll look and see if I have soon).

I was never called back or anything so I feared the worst - I didn't get the job. So I rang about 1 and a half weeks later to see what was going on and the person who answered said all the managers were busy and to call back later. But I couldn't call back later because I had my first day of Digital Media at TAFE (equivalent to university, but more hands on). To this day (7 days later) I haven't rung them again, but I should.

Before TAFE one day last week I walked around Warringah Mall (which is next to TAFE) and she wanted to get a job at a place called SugarFix which is a candy store which sells candy from all over the world. The Canadian manager said he needed someone for Thursday evenings (late night shopping) and weekends. Which is the only time I really want to work anyways, so I pondered about this job. Tammy has another job on weekends so she couldn't do it. I went in after TAFE another day and gave the manager my resume and we were going to book an interview in then and there but I didn't have my TAFE timetable with me so I didn't know when I was free because I have 20HOURS of TAFE a week, which I wasn't expecting when I enrolled for the Certificate IV course. I said to the manager that I would contact him over the weekend with a time. When I talked to him I made him laugh so this was a good thing. :)


My radio show on Radio Northern Beaches has been going ace! I don't stuff up anymore or leaving the mic on, lol. The only thing that hasn't been going as planned is listener feedback. I read out my e-mail and my website on every program but I haven't received any e-mails :( I suppose it's because, apparently, only the older people of the northern beaches listen to the station. OR it could be because the frequency can't be received at places like Frenches Forest & Belrose which are 1km from the station. But the reason for this is because they use low power transmitters which are located at each end of the Northern Beaches (Palm Beach & North Head - Manly), therefore in the middle the range gets very narrow and it doesn't reach the 15kms inland to the area where the actual station is.


There was two days in a row last week were I went and saw Candace working at the Fruit Shop at Forest Way. It's funny, because we don't catch up much on the internet seeing as she's working alll the time! Candace, you've also been a little behind on the humourous and intriguing e-mails. :( -- I know I know, so have I.. I don't think I've written one since last year. But I have this blog now which has pretty much replaced my fun e-mails.


Another thing which has made Sydney more boring is people going to uni; more specifically, people going to uni in faarrr away places like ENGLAND, WOLLONGONG, LISMORE, BATHURST, QUEENSLAND, DUBBO, CHINA. I might have made up those last two.. But I mean I'm doing TAFE 20mins from where I live and I'm getting higher Certificates than some. Mainly because I did TAFE in the last two years of school aswell.

Then there's Hayley. She's gone to learn how to make rotary engines in Sweden or something. Wait, maybe she's going to school there through a company called Rotary. Anywho, it can be boring with people like her. But weirdo's like myself can seem to manage.

One person who has been as much fun as all my friends mashed into a sugar cube is Sarah. She's one of the most amazing person I've ever met. Lets see who I've met; Mickey Mouse, Cameron Diaz - drunk, Donald Duck, Evermore, Pluto, The Gladiators, Sophie Faulkner, Bec Cartwright.. the list goes on. I'd say Sarah's the most amazing person I've ever met. The weirdness of us combined is enough to send people running for a taxi. She's so funny, so clever, so sexy, so funny, and so fun to be with, and so loveable. I don't know what I'd do without her! She's one of the first people who understands my weirdness because she's weird too. Most people think I'm a freak when I do psycho and rarely tend to join in. Whereas Sarah's always joined in.