Employment Agency, aka. The Land of Smiles
The first thing you will notice about employment agencies is that absolutely everyone is so painfully cheerful that it’s scary. I mean, the agency is cheerful to impress the client, the people looking for jobs are cheerful to impress the agency and the agencies clients are cheerful because they know that for a small fee they are on top in this particular establishment. Everyone smiles constantly, post-agency-face-pain is likely a common side effect of being in too many of these places. I’m surprised how amazingly few hospitals there are in Oxford Circus to accomodate for this.
Okay, so I’m registered at the agency, the smiling agent would like me to know that with my skill set I should be looking at a job before the end of the week. I hope she didn’t take the twitching eye of smiling discomfort as me being an escaped lunatic. I snuck a look at her notes on me as she left for a glass of water. She wrote me a rave review, fooled another one Daddy! I type 46 words per minute apparently, that is when I’m copying out a passage about American commutes, which I pretty much fell asleep while typing. I also, for those who have never had the pleasure of watching me type, only use two fingers (well, and one on my let hand to press shift). She that’s mighty impressive.
The other day (Friday, I am tempted to say…) Mike and I headed to the V&A (Victoria & Albert) Museum, which is a pretty amazing little museum, it’s stuffed full of interesting, but less famous items. Like, you won’t find the Rosetta Stone, but you will find some amazing Renaissance artefacts, the Medici are not mentioned very much though(!) Are they a Zimmer hyperbole(!)? Regardless, Mike finally learned the true extent of my museum addiction and cut me off before I got too carried away, and showed me Hyde Park (Yes, I did think of Sweeney, so shoot me) From there we headed back to Milton Keynes. I highly reccomend V&A I neglected to mention, it’s a low key museum with a lot of sculptures, and everyone except me seemed to be running through it which was disappointing because there was a lot of cool stuff.
I have finally experienced British rain, this is the first I have been out in the rain since coming here believe it or not. And, of course, the only day I did not pack an umbrella in my purse, which I’m considering upgrading to something bigger once this job thing hopefully pulls through. I can’t fit anything in it.
One thing I am going to start kicking people about is my friends and replying to my entries… all my mom’s friends, and my friend’s parents are replying, but none of my chums seem to be able to find it in their hearts to reply to me. So, loves, expect some nasty e-mails involving ‘Comment on my posts or die<3′ To the parents replying to my blog I thank you… at least I know some people love me.
And to commenter:
Crystal<3 I hope Sweeney and Jack join me, we can dance around in happy hippie circles until the sky goes out. You should come down and visit, by now I feel like a regular Londoner. Love! No, you see the trouble with poet is how do you know it’s deceased — Try the priest!
Tags: employment agency, impressions, london, milton keynes, mood, museum, rain, sweeney todd
3 Responses to “Employment Agency, aka. The Land of Smiles”
March 12th, 2008 at 12:20 pm.
Ooh. A rave review, that’s great! It is only a matter of time before you infiltrate the British market!
How is the British rain, by the way? Is it any different from Canadian rain? I don’t recall it raining on my trip to Canada until RIGHT AFTER we crossed the border back into the U.S. and New York. And that came POURING down, could’ve easily drowned. People laughed at me for being drenched, but I shook my fist at them and shouted “ONE DAY!!!!” Ah, good old rainy, murderous weather.
Anywho, I love you muchly. And now I don’t have to say “LOL GOOD LUCK ON GETTING A JOB” now because you’ve totally won them over! Hurrah, huzzah and make sure the smiley people don’t turn you into a crazed beast.
- Amber
March 13th, 2008 at 11:18 am.
Just wanted you to know that you made me laugh out loud today. I have a very surreal mental image of the employment agency
very John Cleese. I hope it went well anyway and something great comes your way. Aunt Mo
March 11th, 2008 at 3:48 pm.
hey,
so I’m in Canadian history and we’re talking about food history. I’m starving…
anyway sounds like the job search is going very well. I hope you get something great! I’m supposed to hear if I get the government job for the summer by the end of this week too. Fingers crossed!
I made gael!!!! So excited its going to be freaking awesome!!!
ao… the V&A museum sounds fun. The Medici’s are overrated anyway XD. The Rosetta Stone on the other hand, that would be pretty amazing to see.
ahh British rain, that’s almost poetic too bad you didn’t have an umbrella though. You should definitely invest in a larger bag.
Call me sometime and tell me if you get a job!
Love ya Ange xo
p.s. I think the smiling sounds nice ^^;;