Interview in the Morning

Tomorrow I have an interview for a job. The interview is all the way in Melbourne, which means that I have to get up nice and early to be there at 8:30am.

That's going to be a nasty shock to my system, seeing how I'm so not a morning person and probably won't be able to get to sleep until a couple of hours before I'm supposed to be at the train station.

But nonetheless, this isn't causing me any undue concern.

I function pretty well on no sleep ... and I usually function a hell of a lot better on no sleep than I do with little sleep. So I'm seriously considering just staying up all night and when it gets close to getting ready time, I'll just pep myself up on coffee.

I'd take sleeping pills, but I'm pretty sure they're placebos; they don't actually do anything to help me get to sleep.

But anyways, considering the ungodliness of the hour that I have to leave for the train station, I decided to show some forethought and look up the venue today so I know how far away it is from Spencer St (turns out two blocks).

Naturally I used Google Maps for this so that it could clearly highlight my destination on the map for me. It left me wondering why does Google Maps always insist on giving you directions for the most convoluted way there? Why can't it just give you directions for the most direct route?

I know this is a bad example, considering how short my trip is, but ...

When I could easily walk up Colins St!

How much easier is that?

So now that I have simplified my walk to the interview, I'm basically all set for the interview tomorrow, sleep or no sleep!

Hooray!

The Dangers of Living in Suburbia

If rewatching season one of Desperate Housewives has taught me anything (besides I watched a lot more of it on TV than I thought) is that suburbia seems to be one of the most dangerous places to live.

Ok, well, that may be a slight exaggeration. It's not like people were breaking into their houses every other week and murdering the inhabitants of Wisteria Lane ... hmmm.

So there were break ins every other week. And there were even a couple of attacks as well. But this was mostly done by the lovely, righteous people of Wisteria Lane.

Suburbia isn't as safe as people like to believe it is!

It seems that people in suburbia have to lock all of their doors and windows, and even that's not quite enough to prevent nosey neighbours breaking in and snooping around. It's a good thing that most of the time they intruders are only after some juicy piece of gossip to share with their neighbours.

Now I don't exactly live in a fantastic part of town (I'm pretty sure there's a gang hq nearby). And yet, I don't really feel the need to tightly lock up the house with motion activated laser guns all over the house. And yet, there has been no break in ... as far as I know. Maybe there was a break in by a nosey neighbour who wanted something to gossip about.

Maybe it's Hollywood exaggerating the rate of break ins in suburbia. Or maybe Hollywood isn't. All I know is that suburbia is a dangerous place to live, which Desperate Housewives clearly shows.

Last Night's Dream

Donna, Eric, Jackie and Fez were at a theme park, arguing about what ride they should go on next. They couldn't decide, so they decided to go to the beach and sit in the waves.

The surf was actually really strong, and required a lot of attention to avoid being knocked over and swept away.

Some celebrity chef and I joined them and looked out across the coast line. The celebrity chef kept suggesting how perfect all of the waves were. He clearly didn't know how to spot a rip. He kept on yammering about the whole thing and refused to listen to us when we kept trying to point out one of the multiple rips that were easily visible.

Just to get away from him I suggested that we go on the roller coaster, which, for some reason, required us to wade through the surf and around the bluff to get to the line for the roller coaster.

The roller coaster ride took us out to an island. Halfway there, we got thrown out of the roller coaster when it hit a sandbar and broke.

We swam the rest of the way to the island and found ourselves at Hogwarts. Naturally this meant that we had to explore the castle, which we did.

At some point we heard some loud bangs and the castle walls started to shake a bit. But we just ignored it and continued exploring. I ended up on the athletics field, checking out some of the old tin sheds. It was the smoke that alerted me to the danger.

I raced back to the castle to find the others and warn them. I found Fez lying on the floor of a room filled with mechanical gears and clogs.

We couldn't find the others, or a way out of the castle for that matter. We were starting to get really worried when we heard Eric shouting at us. He, Donna and Jackie had made a hole in the wall for us to wriggle through.

From then on it became a race against the lava to get off the island. It wasn't easy. Most of the castle was crumbling down around us. But somehow we managed to get out off the island and float safely back to the mainland where we had a prefect view of the island quickly disappear in a hot red, steamy lava-ee mess.

From the mainland the island didn't look big enough to have a house on it, let alone Hogwarts castle with a couple of massive athletic fields.

End of Ballarat?

Clear blue sunny skies. Not exactly an omen of impending doom, right?

Well apparently here in Ballarat that's exactly what they mean. Well, if all of the sirens I have been hearing all day around town mean anything.

Why else would there be so many sirens going off today?

The world is ending for Ballarat!

The sudden clear skies and warmth has proven too much and the place is tearing itself apart from the inside.

Disney Stars

The Disney singing stars are only that in name. Their songs are so auto tuned, that these so called stars are really only lip synching dancers in their music videos. Disney may as well just come clean and admit that what sings the songs is nothing more than a very smart computer, and that they get a star from whatever Disney show is popular at the time to pretend to sing.

Pizza Hut Sticky Fingers Ads

So Pizza Hut has brought out a new product; their sticky fingers stuff.

I always thought that ads were supposes to make the products advertised look appealing to as many people as possible. That's how they generate sales. But this ad doesn't do that. It doesn't even succeed in making the food look good to eat!

Sticky fingers looks like the kind of food that drunk or high annoying wannabees who are so cool (or so they believe) would buy. So that's a limited percentage of the population who's being targeted ... actually, considering the ad, I guess it's just about every hot blooded sports fan. So maybe not quite so limited number of people being targeted, after all.

But how the food looks on the ad has got to turn off a lot of those hot blooded sports fan wannabees. It does not look at all appealing. And everyone knows that the food in ads looks a thousand times better than reality. So the sticky fingers range has got to be very foul looking.

It looks like this sticky fingers ad campaign is a complete fail all around ... at least it would be if so many people didn't go to Pizza Hut while intoxicated and any kind of food, especially a new untried kind, looks good and must be eaten.

Insurance Ads

I remember when insurance ads were just the domain of late night TV. Now, unless it's prime time or a children's channel, you can't have an ad break without some kind of insurance ad coming up at least once.

But what's worse is that when these ads were just late night ads, you could forgive the extremely bad acting in them, because, well, it was late night TV. There's nothing good on, so why should the ads be an better?

So you'd think that with the rise in the number of insurance ads, the people behind them would want to make sure that the acting is much better. But no. Apparently they don't care about this. They're just happy to let the acting in them get worse and worse until you're left wondering who would actually believe that the insurance is any good, since there's no effort in actually trying to sell it.

Although I am curious as to why insurance ads have suddenly surged onto our TVs all of a sudden.

It's almost as though the insurance companies are trying to cash in on people's fear of the world ending next year. Doesn't surprise me. After all, big companies are completely heartless and only focus on the bottom dollar.

What does surprise me is that there's probably is a huge number of people who are thinking about the end of the world next year and have decided that they should probably cover themselves and their families just in case something happens to them. Then, at least their families don't have to worry financially after the end of the world.

That's really the only reason I can think of why there are suddenly so many insurance ads on TV.