chris’ blog

i just sprayed a spider with aldi bug spray and he scuttled away. i don’t know where he went. but my room now smells like a urinal.

i went to the beach this morning. it was really nice, although i for some reason had a complete mental blank last night when told about it, and didn’t put beach and swimming together, so i was the only one without swimming gear.

but it was still fun. the beach is good this time of year.

i bought tube pants the other day, against all past sensibilities. i felt i had too, because i don’t have any black pants to wear when i’m on band in the morning, and people are getting shirty at me wearing jeans, but that’s another story completely.

but they’re very tight pants, so tight i didn’t even attempt trying to fit my wallet into the front pocket like i usually do. so i found an old wallet, from about 10 years ago; it’s the paper thin leather type. i was always opposed to leather wallets because i was a veggie, but i didn’t throw it out because my grandma gave it to me with my initials engraved on this flimsy piece of metal inside it. funnily enough, it was the first thing to go when i decided i’d use it.

so now i’m having to get used to the very manly “leather wallet in the back pocket” thing. it’s a bit foreign.

i think my most successful clothing endeavours lately have been when i haven’t been looking, in fact, any clothes i’ve found recently have only been because i was trying to waste time.

and today was no exception. i found a shirt in a style i think i’ve been wanting for 7 years. i think i saw it in a photo of the beatles somewhere, but it’s taken that long for the style to come back in so i can finally buy it, but it’s been long worth the white. i was thinking of getting a second one so i could tea-dye it, but that could be risky and ruin a perfectly good shirt. and it’s a rather hippy-ish thing to do.

i stayed home and worked last night at getting this banner ad thing finished. and on my way to go drop it in, they sent an email saying they wanted something “with less colour”, basically because it was cheaper for them. nevermind they get an banner designed for them for free. so i’m doing it again. if they ask me again, i’m not helping them anymore.

i have this funny feeling at the moment; i’ve been lamenting getting busy for so long, and now it’s actually happening, and it’s a little disconcerting.

it feels like i’ve been gigging no stop for the past 24 hours. not that it hasn’t been fun, but i’m very tired. and a shower wouldn’t go astray.

we played for joel’s 21st last night. i think we were expecting a really good response or a really bad one, but we got somewhere in between. but at least the three of us enjoyed ourselves. i never knew playing an instrument was so tiring. then joel gave us an ice cream maker for playing. naughty naughty man. but the idea of good homemade ice cream has defiantly grown on me since last night.

then i was on all three services today. so tiring. my hands are sore.

i enjoy these opportunities when they arise though. i still have a fair amount of doubt in myself musically that i wouldn’t mind be knocked out.

yesterdays interview was interesting. everything was going well up until half way through. it was a full time advertised position, but they were willing to take me part time (because of my internship at church).

then one of the two who were interviewing me sprung the question on me “would you be okay handling adult content”. i think i offered a very stuttered reply. i wasn’t expecting that at all. i know i didn’t have much to go on, but i nothing i’d read from/about them would have lead me to think that. the interview ended soon after, and i think they were probably serious about hiring me. after i left i put it to the back of my mind figuring i’d worry about it in the morning.

then i sent them an email this morning saying “thanks but, no thanks” as politely as possible.

i’ve got a job interview this afternoon. i don’t know i really want it. so i might try on my ultra-assertive interview skills. that way, if i’m successful, i’ll want the job, but if not i won’t.

meanwhile, i’ve just tried looking for them online for a little background info, and all i can find a suspicious looking website that tells me to get lost.

i got a call this morning from the employment agency i’m with, asking if i could design them a billboard. it’s not paid unfortunately, but presumably it’s going up on one of the big advertising spaces on hornsby station. which could be fun.