New Job

I got a new temping job. I've been there two days now. It's pretty cool. There's like a partition that blocks me off from the rest of the office, so no one can see me or my screen (which is a 22 inch flat screen), which is nice. I have a pretty big cubicle actually, with a window. There's art on the walls. The people are not mind blowingly retarded, which makes a change. It's £7.50 an hour which is badass. I pretty much get left to my own devices which is good and bad. Good because it means I don't get bored/frustrated, if I can decide what to do and when, I know what I need to do during the day and as long as it all gets done i can pace myself. When i have someone constantly handing out tasks to me and waiting for them to be done, I feel trapped and irritated and just cant wait for the day to end. Also it's audio typing mostly and I'm typing letters for this guy with an awesome south african accent so listening to that all day doesn't suck.

I realised today, that even in my nice office clothes, I always look somewhat scruffy. I just have an innate scruffiness about me.

Depressing

I just got hit on (in a kebab shop) by a guy who simultaneously had long greasy hair AND was balding, and looked about 17. And his chat up line was "Right, we're off now, you coming?" to which I mumbled that I had no idea who he was and he then rambled for 2 minutes solid about how I should go with him "because right, I think you're gorgeous, right."

Also, worse than that, I then came home and blogged about it.

Marketing

Just saw a commercial for some mens' wrinkle cream:

There's a guy, probably 30-40 years old and, shock, he has wrinkles.
A woman walks by him, they make eye contact and he watches her walk off with a smile.
The commentary:
"What you think are great lines, she thinks are the start of wrinkles" and you see that the woman is rolling her eyes as she walks off.

Translation:
"Happy with your body? You shouldn't be! Buy our shit please, and when it doesn't work, you too can begin your descent into self loathing!"

Comments

So I only just realised yesterday that I now have to review and accept comments before they show up. All this time I thought no one was reading or commenting and then meowza asked me why I hadn't accepted his comments, so I hunted around and found the "moderate comments" section.

Oops.