Watching People

Job interviews are painful. Don't worry; I didn't have one or anything. I just witnessed one and it made me cringe. I was on my lunch hour at Tim Horton's and there was a woman there interviewing a man for some job. From the bits I heard I couldn't determine what kind of job, but I recognized all the boring, horrible questions. "Tell me about a time you worked as part of a team". "Describe a situation where you acted in a leadership role". I hate these questions so much. I'm always thinking, "I'm bored. Are you bored? Can we talk about something else?" I think I'd rather be asked inappropriate personal questions. "Have you accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Saviour?" "On average, how much alcohol do you consume per week?" "You're not planning on getting pregnant, are you?"

Anyway this particular interview was interesting because after the interviewee left, the woman at the next table, who was sipping tea with her elderly mother, leaned over and started asking the interviewer what she thought of him as a candidate and the interviewer actually told her, and then they discussed him briefly, and then the woman started pitching her own daughter as a more suitable candidate. Can you do that? Is that something my mother might do? Just another thing to add to my list of worries.

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Fun Activity: Going to a corn maze! Last week I went with my parents to the Valley to visit my grandparents and other relatives. The definite highlight of the trip was a visit to an adorable farm in Wilmot with an incredible corn maze. It was a beautiful sunny day and I had a blast racing through the corn. We split up into two teams. Team A, my mother and my cousin, completed the maze quickly and enjoyed fresh apples and blueberries at the exit while they waited for the far less successful Team B which included me, my father and my aunt who took turns arguing about following the direction of the sun. Once we all finished the maze, there was a wagon ride around the farm. It's the most fun you can have in the country. The owners said they were planning on having the maze open at night leading up to Halloween. Can you imagine how fun that would be?! If you could deal with the fact that running through a corn maze at night almost guarantees you will be terrorized by a homicidal scarecrow, you'd be fine.

Crimewatch

So the South End Sleep Watcher is still on the loose. For those not familiar with this infamous case, there's some weirdo (see photo) going around the south end of Halifax sneaking into women's bedrooms and watching them sleep. When they wake up, he runs away. Based on this police sketch, I suspect Ben Affleck. So far, he has sleep-watched at least 14 people. He is becoming quite famous. People are planning to be him for Halloween (the Sleep Watcher, not Ben Affleck). One night last week I woke up three times to check and make sure there was no one watching me sleep. It's just so creepy! A&E runs Criminal Minds marathons on the weekends so, of course, I watch every episode and imagine that the South End Sleep Watcher has evolved into the South End Strangler. Hopefully he'll be caught soon and punished for his crimes (the Sleep Watcher, not Ben Affleck).


Today's Good News/Bad News

Bad News: I bought some chips from the vending machine in the staff room but after eating a few, I decided they were poison because they smelled like paint.
Good News: I was still hungry so I bought a chocolate bar and the machine gave me two!
Bad News: I feel sick now, possibly because I ate some of the poison chips, possibly because I ate both the chocolate bars.
Good News: I kept the remaining poison chips as evidence. They're in my locker at work. If I don't make it, please avenge my death.

Summer into Fall

I keep meaning to update the ol' blog, but it's just that I'm so busy doing important, interesting things. I'll write soon. In the meantime, enjoy these photos from my vacation home.


Krista and I having an algae fight at the beach.


Here we are frolicking in the surf. Clearly one of us misinterpreted the photographer's directions. Krista's doing "Baywatch Barbie" and I'm doing "I just stepped on a razor clam and then got struck by lightning."

Now enjoy these photos from my new house. This place would be great if it weren't for the four other people who live here. I've lived here three days now and there doesn't seem to be any stand-out assholes, so I'm sure we'll all reside here happily together.