Pisces,
You have no Signature. I just noticed. Whats amatter fishie, can't write??

Well guys, wish me luck. I'm going to leave to go to my interview in a couple minutes.

I know you can get it, you are Dantrag after all .

Now, let me see if he ever posted anything about shoplifting before

Doomed! We´re not running an ethics seminar...we´re just trying to keep this a nice place for all to visit!..

Danny: You really are a very mature young man.....I am so impressed ad I really hope my som will be like you when he reaches his teens!


A completely different thing: I am now sitting at my brand new lappy......nearly all the mainn functions are installed....what remains is the huuuuuuge content on the hd of my old and dead one! phew!

Glad to hear that news Minque! Hopefully that means Serene updates are somewhat on the way! No rush though, I can wait.

Hopefully yes! Now I´ll be on vacation the next two weeks.....camping in Germany.....ehh noo I´m not bringing the lappy! So we´ll see

Alright, the topic is up, back to talking about ourselves.

Minque, great news, I'm getting my laptop tomorrow on my way to SOU to register for classes.

I'm a little split, though, because I want to be a writer director and sort of follow in the foot steps of Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith, Robert Rodriguez and others by writing and making really short budgeted independent films until one of them makes a lot of money and I can get some fat budgets.

So, there's this directing class that I could take as a Junior after I've completed all the prerequisite Theatre Arts courses, and most of them are restricted only the Theatre Arts majors, meaning in order to get training as a director and work with actors, I'd have to have a Theatre Arts major. But... I want a Political Science major because I'd get the most comprehensive education, if I took Theatre Arts I'd become really good at something I don't really want as a career, just to get to a point (my junior or senior year) when I can start writing and directing my own plays, and with work in the film studies school, be able to bridge that into making independent movies.

So I'll discuss it with the college counselor there, I guess, but my experience with guidance counselors is they end up spending their whole lives searching for a perfect box of eggs, and I'm not sure how much help I'll get.

You could always do what I did Doomed. Do two degrees. I did a degree in Theatre Studies, then a degree in English. The only problem is you end up horrendously in debt

Not a bad idea. I'm going over the course listings really thoroughly to see if there's a way I can take a minimal amount of acting classes and still get to that directing spot.

Off topic slightly, but I wondered how many people were aware of this.

Irrepressible

It's saddening that governments are so hypocritical a lot of the time....

I was going to suggest a double major to Doomed as well. I know Pisces is taking two very different majors and he seems to be enjoying it. Between all the college courses I've had I have business and computer experience and supplies management and some art. So it doesn't hurt to have varied skills when job hunting, sometimes some art experience gives you an advantage when interviewing for a store supervisor position = for example. They figure you'll be more creative in your window displays.

The film writing sounds very fascinating. I'd think they'd emphasize English and Literature more than Theatre for that. I guess both are important to it though.

Screenwriting and Playwriting are both courses included in english as well as film studies for screewriting and theatre arts for playwriting, but I could take playwriting or screewriting as a course in itself, I think only playwriting has any prerequisites, and those aren't restricted to theatre majors, What gets me is the directing class is a very advanced class and a hard class to get to, and I understand why they'd make it so hard to get there, it's just a little hard to decide if it's worth it to get involved in theatre arts so I can eventually get director's training.

I know someone who's on the terrorist watch list for writting "anti-government" papers in high school. He went to the airport ticket office because he couldn't buy tickets to L.A (he was born, raised and living in Florida). The women looked very scared when he asked for tickets and sent him to the security check in. He was followed by armed guards and when he finally asked why they were watching him so much, and they finally told him he was considered a terrorist and that due to his papers and Anti-Bush blog, his travel was very restricted. Rediculous.

Well I knew blogging couldn't be a total waste of time.

I wrote this up for another site, but thought I'd share it here because... well, I have nothing better to do (edited slightly cos people don't like swearing here for some reason) - "How to benefit England by keeping a hippo"

The Hippo stage

Step 1 - Obtaining your hippo

The obvious way to obtain your hippo is to 'borrow' one from the local zoo. The difficult part is getting it out of the zoo without anyone noticing. There are numerous things you could try, but the easiest is probably to drive a van straight into the middle of the hippo enclosure and get one in the back of the van. It's proabably best to get someone you don't like to try to get it in the back of the van in case it is hungry. If anyone asks what you are doing, tell them they are having a bad dream and should go back to sleep. All in all, this is an incredibly stupid idea and it would be best to tranquilise one in the middle of the night and steal and steal it, leaving some fat kid in place of it, hoping no one notices the difference in the morning.

Step 2 - Where to keep your hippo

I was thinking the back garden would be a good place. Dig a large portion of it up and fill it with water and make sure it is fenced in well so it doesn't come inside and compassion on the carpet. It will stink.

Step 3 - Keep your hippo hungry

Reasons for this will be clear in a moment

The benefitting England stage

Step 1 - Preparing your house

Firstly, you need to go to your local job centre building and steal the signs. IF this proves impossing because the queue for benefits is so long you can't get anywhere near the signs to steal then, try returning at night. This is probably not safe as some chavs drunk on White Lightening (bought at the expense of the tax payer) will probably be there and shout things at you, before attempting to steal your wallet because you were "*cahv profanity* star'in'" and you are a "*chav profanity* 'ead". If events work out like this and you can't get the sign to put above your front door, just write "benefit office" on some paper and stick that above your front door instead. These people are very stupid and it won't take much to fool them.

Step 2 - ... whatever time chavs go to get their benefits on dole day

The chavs will be outside your house queuing because they want their free money. You will need to let them in and tell them the free money is out the back, where you are keeping your (hungry) hippo.

Step 3 - Mission Accomplished

The chavs will have walked straight into the hippo enclosure. You can watch through a window to see the chavs getting killed and eaten by said hippo. Some may try to start on the hippo. This will just be funny.

You have now benefitted England. Well done

Next Week - How to benefit England by... keeping Rattlesnakes

Yeah... so anyway, Looking for a job stinks. I keep applying but no one seems to get back to me about anything.

This post has been edited by Ramirez: Jul 27 2006, 08:31 PM

Blarghhhh *slurps his 2nd morning coffee with nervousness*
I've finished my 2nd lil' piece of prose yesterday, or to be precise, today mornin X| and now I can't find a decent bloody religious quote to finish it, before its sent to polishing and fixing *grammar errors & so).
I guess you'll all just have to wait a few more days. I'm sorry, Minkey.

Edit: Ramirez, LOL, LOL & 1000 times LOLLL ! You sound cheerfull, good buddie, inspite the fact that you're hunting jobs like me... keep up that spirit and remember that there are worse places for an unemployed person to exist - Serbia, for one (we don't own hippos, damn!). I just learned that the official number of unemployed people here is 18% (but it's more likely to be 22%, in reality).

Edit 2: I love this new Quick Edit option, it really makes a poster's life more easier Excellent Job, Guys !

This post has been edited by milanius: Jul 28 2006, 11:25 AM

Erm, hate to burst your bouble but there is a very well documented link between increasing poverty and the introduction of neoliberal structural adjustments. Exports in underdeveloped countries only support wealthy land owners, New York stock brockers, corrupt governments and fat multinational corperations while leaving the countries with enough farms to easily feed the entire country with no food, water or medical care, export crops use foreign hybrid plants which require loads of pesticides because they are not resistant to the local environment, pesticides leave the farm unusable in 3-4 years, requiring the destruction of local forest leading to erosion and release of rain into the atmosphere, leading to droughts, landslips, floods and hurricanes. Although it may seem like buying coffee, bananas and such is giving money to these poor people, they would be far better off poor with food to eat, rather than poor with no food and no hope, even better if you buy fair trade they can actaully support themselves and the community without leaving longstanding environmental damage.

Collective farming is mostly used in communist and totalitarian governments. Therefore, much of the money goes to that government. And if that government is communist, like China, then they have more money to distribute to the people, so each individual gets more money, then see my earlier statement. Besides, I doubt the people that work the farms complain. For them, it's a way to feed themselves where they had no other. What's worse, working for food instead of wages or starving? Neither are ideal, but for those people it's far better than what they had before.