English Bodies

From "Table Talk" by AA Gill, The Sunday Times, Style section (July 31, 2005):

"What is it that makes English bodies so spectacularly repellent in the daylight? It isn't simply the clammy, adipose, maggoty-white flesh, with its zits and lesions and dry, scrofolous craters. It's the distribution that so noisomely offends. The softly curdled lumps that hang like fungus on beech trees, the swaying underarms, the double nuggets of cheesy flob behind the knees, the exhausted, stretched, who-cares haggis of gut, the shuddering, horrified backsides, with their wrinkled, slippery clefts and creases, the thighs pitted like rain on cold sand -- all of it shaped and moulded and bulged by waistbands and straps that were hopeful three years in the past."

Nervous, nervous, nervous for my job interview on Monday!!

~K

Slowly rolling again

I gave my two-weeks notice yesterday at the ol' Monk. Was a little nervous about it especially since another kitchen porter quit/walked out last Thursday. Despite this, they were supportive and really appreciated that I had given two weeks notice as opposed to just not showing up all of a sudden. They must have really had some irresponsible people coming through there to feel that way! Anyway, I'm going to work through August 6th and perhaps a couple of days the week after IF they are in a bind. Seems like they're well on the way of replacing the other guy who quit, though. Four or five applications came in already.

Tomorrow we're going to drive down to St Albans to check it out. Next week we'll go to Bournemouth and check out Winchester on the way back. Then it's just a bit of a waiting game to see if K gets the job. I'll get a room in London and come home on the weekends. Hopefully, by the end of August we'll have been able to decide which city to move to and have found a place to move into. Looking forward to it.

And I'm definitely looking forward to not doing dishes or cleaning mussels, though I definitely will miss the people in the kitchen. Good bunch of blokes.

-RP-

Next...

We had just about recovered from the shock of Rich's job offer on Monday when we got a wrench thrown in the works. Yesterday I received a request-for-interview letter from Bournemouth University regarding a job application that I had sent them several weeks ago. The job is a researcher position in the Centre for Creative Media Research (http://media.bournemouth.ac.uk/ccmr.html). The excellent thing about this job is in addition to the salary they also will pay tuition for a PhD if so desired. I had sent my application in nice and early and hoped that I might hear from them. Well the closing date came and went. Two weeks went by and no news, so I assumed that I was not on their shortlist. I moved on mentally, not thinking about it anymore and looking for other interesting possibilities. Then on Monday Rich got the London job and our attention was immediately focused on figuring out where we wanted to live, giving notice to our current employers, etc. The letter's arrival on Thursday was a HUGE surprise! The interview is scheduled for August 1 at 1:45. The complication now is that we don't know where we should be looking to find a place to live. If I get the B.U. job, then we need to look southwest of London and we'll both have a 50 minute commute. If I don't get the B.U. job, then we need to be northwest of the city to allow for the easiest possible commuting for Rich. So we are now on hold until after my interview - hopefully they will make a quick decision. With Rich's job starting August 15th and my last day of work at the theatre on August 26th, we don't have much time to get ourselves moved before our lease ends on August 31st.

When things happen, they sure seem to happen all at once!

~K

Survey says...

I participated in a survey about blogging a couple of months ago. It was undertaken by the Nanyang Technological University. They just sent out the results and have also created a blog to display them. If you're interested, go here:

Weblog Ethics Survey Results

-RP-