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		<title>Employment Agency, aka. The Land of Smiles</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first thing you will notice about employment agencies is that absolutely everyone is so painfully cheerful that it&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The first thing you will notice about employment agencies is that absolutely everyone is so painfully cheerful that it&#8217;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&#8217;m surprised how amazingly few hospitals there are in Oxford Circus to accomodate for this.</p>
<p>Okay, so I&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;s mighty impressive.</p>
<p>The other day (Friday, I am tempted to say&#8230;) Mike and I headed to the V&amp;A (Victoria &amp; Albert) Museum, which is a pretty amazing little museum, it&#8217;s stuffed full of interesting, but less famous items. Like, you won&#8217;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&amp;A I neglected to mention, it&#8217;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.</p>
<p>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&#8217;m considering upgrading to something bigger once this job thing hopefully pulls through. I can&#8217;t fit anything in it.</p>
<p>One thing I am going to start kicking people about is my friends and replying to my entries&#8230; all my mom&#8217;s friends, and my friend&#8217;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 &#8216;Comment on my posts or die&lt;3&#8242; To the parents replying to my blog I thank you&#8230; at least I know some people love me.</p>
<p>And to commenter:</p>
<p>Crystal&lt;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&#8217;s deceased &#8212; Try the priest!</p>
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