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Mood: Splendid… This Cuba Libre really did the trick..or should I say those… *winky*
Listening to: A lot of things…
Culture Club – Karma Chameleon
Robert Palmer – Addicted to Love
Bruce Springsteen – Dancing in the Dark
Various Artists – Perfect Day
Those are the ones I just “fetched”… *whistles*

So yes… How you doing?
Oh, hang on… Cuba is calling…dang… Fidel just hit me… strong bastard… Cheers!

I wasn’t really planning on making a drunken rant… and I’m not planning to… what I mean is.. I’m not ranting…
I just felt it was about time I divulged what’s been happening this past week.
The course is over… yay… but now all those jobs I applied for that I didn’t really want has started to call back to bite me in the ass.. well, one did… And it was a clothes store… and she couldn’t guarantee that I would get full time… and seeing as I have to rely on public transportation, which is expensive here, I have to have a job which is worth while for me to work at to pay for the bus… and food.. etc…
AND! *80’s dances to “dancing in the dark”*
There is another job I applied for over two weeks ago.. He called me and was all =D because my application was good and unusual.  The day he called (a Sunday) he said that we had to get together and talk… and I replied that the following Thursday was good for me… and I didn’t hear back… so on Thursday I wrote another email and he replied later saying he was busy and traveling a lot… and not to use that email, but to use another… and not to call him on that phone number but to use this one… and to call his assistant to set up a meeting… and he gave me her email address… and I sent an email to her saying I’m all open… and I got an email back telling me I had a job interview last Wednesday…
So.. on Wednesday I got there and I have to say that I felt it went crappy…
The job initially is for marketing and sales.. traveling out in the district to businesses to ask them if they want a commercial thingie on the radio.. (I forgot to say that it was a local radio needing people) (from the application I couldn’t see what they really needed, but it looked interesting, so I applied…)
But yeah…. as we talked and stuff they got the impression that I wanted to sit in the radio seat.. like be on the air and stuff… and I have to admit, even though the thought scared the living shit out of me, it would be fun XD
but still.. anything doing with radio, be it behind the scenes, doing research.. whatever… sounds like a blast to me… :3
So yeah… I really don’t think I’ll be getting the job I set out to get… hehe…
And… I think I scared one of the interviewers… at the end he asked me “where do you see yourself in 5 years time?”
and I said, honestly: “I have no idea. I’m just along for the ride, enjoying every minute. I try not to plan too much ahead.” And he looked at me like I was crazy… Like seriously O.O WTF??!?!??!?!
I can’t help it I’m not a planner…. not for the far away future… If I go on a trip, sure I make a list of the things I need to bring… and it serves as a “remember list” for when I leave said place.
But it’s hard to make a check list for 5 years ahead…
So yeah… that was my Wednesday…
Well… except for me finding the coolest yarn known to man XD
So I promptly started to knit me a new scarf… Seeing as my mother made fun of my Dr Who scarf it got depressed and hit itself in the bag it came in… afraid to come out again… I have tried to console it, but it won’t listen to me…
So I’m opting for coloures… and I’m making a scarf…
and it’s coming along quite nicely, thank you…

I have to admit that I just LOVE the colours… and I can’t wait to make the matching, not quite matching, but close, wrist warmers… It’s going to be truly awesome XD

OH, and I’ve figured out what to do if I ever get the radio job.. like the on the air kind of job…
I know I’ll be scared out of my mind… and I’ll stutter and make a fool of myself…
So… might as well have a few drinks before I go on air… XP
Cuba Libre really liberated my tongue on this blog, I’m afraid… *drum crash*

What else?
It’s snowing again… Would be nice if this snow stayed till after Christmas… no… after new year…
So yeah…
That’s what happened…. kinda… there is more.. but wait for it till Sunday… or Monday.. depends what day I’ll remember to round-up… 😉

Anyways… that’s it for me today…
Tune in tomorrow at the same time for more Lene madness =D (no, not really..)

Lene

Mood: My head hurts… D=
Listening to: nothing, my head hurts…

It’s been a while since I wrote about our two boys in Congo.
Joshua French and Tjostolv Moland.
The appeal has started now, because they were given life for espionage, murder etc.
Lately both of them got sick with Malaria… and they had to wait a few days before getting the medicine they need.
Moland snapped, poor thing. When he was in court last week he had serious mood swings, laughed one minute and started to cry the next. And he tried to leave several times, but he was brought back by the guards or French stopped him. They, Moland and French, also had a fight in their cell, and Moland moved out after that. He also was taken away to the hospital to see if they could do something about his erratic behaviour.
The newspapers say he’s getting better, but I don’t know. I think he’s still in the hospital. And hopefully they aren’t making him sleep all the time.
We haven’t really learned anything new of late…
Well, that’s not all true.
The murder weapon the driver was supposedly killed with was found in Norway, in the National Guards possession. It has never left Norway, and even better, it’s a softgun. It shoots rubber bullets.
A letter was sent to the Foreign department naming three congolese soldiers for killing the driver.
My guess is that Moland and French might be MAYBE, HIGLY UNLIKELY get pardoned for the murder, but they’ll make sure the espionage bit, the conspiracy to commit robbery and whatnot… all of those charges will still stick. They might get a lighter sentence… however, I doubt it..
My other guess is.. they’ll blame it all on Norwegian spies and throw out any evidence that says the guys are innocent.
Heck, even Foreign Department guys are being accused of giving Moland a drug that made him crazy.
the judge ordered Moland checked out by three different doctors to figure out what’s wrong with him… and three different doctors are hard to find, I guess.
So the court is adjourned till the guys are well enough to come to the courtroom.

Darn swine flu…
it’s taking the focus away from the guys…
I hope, if they are given lighter sentences, that they are allowed to serve the time in Norway.
I don’t think the environment down there is good for them… if they are to serve their time there, they won’t last long…

Mood: HAPPIE!!
Listening to: Nothing…

So yeah…
I wrote yesterday that I was going to look at shoes today… shoes and slippers…
I found some really cool shoes I wanted to try, and did so today… but they were a little pinchy, so I decided not to..
And then I looked at slippers… I wanted some that I had seen on the shoestores website.. but they didn’t have them..
Instead I got the same I had before… pink and fluffy.. =D

They are really lovely and fluffy and pink ^_^
My old ones are sad… they got holes in them and look pretty tattered. It’s about time they get retired.
Retirement is here, guys… You have been lovely and all, but it’s time for me to say thanks and goodbye…

I think I need to look elsewhere to find winter shoes…

Lene

Mood: Great
Listening to: Nothing at the moment.

Is there seriously any contest?
Wizards vs sparkling vampires??? Seriously???
1. Harry Potter has much better gathering of actors/actresses (no, I don’t mean Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson (dear god. The actress that lets her eyebrows do all the acting) and Rupert Grint (the only one I see that will have a solid acting career after the whole Harry Potter thingie is over with) like Maggie Smith, Richard Harris (rip), Michael Gambon, Robbie Coltrain, Julie Walters, Emma Thompson and not forgetting Alan Rickman.
2. There are no sparkling vampires…
3. There are NO sparkling vampires…
And then there’s Twilight… and as for actors they have… The only one I recognise is the guy who died in Harry Potter. The one who’s full of himself.. But the rest…. Bishonen… and Bishojo… basically… not not all that, either.
And no, I’m not saying that th young people in Harry Potter are all that either. They aren’t. But at least they don’t sparkle.
And I’m not saying that I’ve ever read Twilight… but I doubt it oh so very very much that sparkling vampires will manage to hold my interest for very long.
So… In conclusion… Harry Potter rules, Twilight drools… End of discussion..
And in other story…
I should seriously NOT have watched the Paranormal Activity trailer yesterday… Just the trailer scared the shit out of me.. so yeah, I’m pretty tired right now… I didn’t sleep well, or at all, last night.
At least I know I won’t be watching that movie when it comes out… never ever…
There was one more thing, but I can’t remember now.. so I guess I’ll be maybe adding something later.
But for now…

Don’t sparkle, it’s lame…

Lene

Mood: TOPS!!  XD
Listening to: Sweeney Todd – A Little Priest

Yes, I am at the course, but it doesn’t stop me voicing my opinion.
On October 23rd the Norwegian population was urged to get vaccinated against swine flu.
I still don’t think I’ll get vaccinated. There are numerous reasons why… Shall I? *hand gesture*
1. In Norway between 1000-1500 (yes, there are more people than that in Norway) people die of your regular, garden variety flu every year.
2. I hardly ever, or I have never, to my knowledge, been sick with the flu. Heavy colds, yes, but I hardly get those either.
3. I HATE NEEDLES!!!!!
4. The chances of me getting swine flu are slim at best.
Usually young people get ill. This is usually because they hug, kiss, drink from ach others bottles etc. They all huddle in herds and the illness flourish like mad in these small groups. Which is also why illnesses have such massive outbreaks in kindergartens etc.

The thing is with those who have died… Some of them were oldish and some were young… some had underlining illnesses that didn’t get better by getting swine flu… and those who had seemingly no underlining illnesses… well… Usually the Norwegian press don’t put things like this in their articles. And it’s sad because it only adds to the hysteria. I believe that all of them had some kind of underlining illness.. something they might not even have known about.
And no, I’m not saying that I’m the perfect picture of health, far from it… but I refuse to join in on the bandwagon, joining the hysteria, getting sick from the vaccine and maybe dying from IT instead of surviving swine flu. Because that’s the thing… If you get swine flu, it doesn’t mean you’re doomed. It doesn’t mean you’ll even stay in bed, sick, for 14 days. Who knows.. maybe I’ve already had it and it didn’t let me know.

Of course it’s all up to you, but I’m taking all this hysteria with a grain of salt.
In my eyes it’s basically paying to die.
And of course not everyone dies from getting the injection of vaccine. But you might get ill from it… Even more so than from the flu itself…

Lene

Mood: Tired
Listening to: TV.. that English dog lay is working her magic..
Personally, when I die and get reborn, I want to be reborn as a dog in Cesar Millan’s pack… Perfect balance… =3=

Oh, hang on.. gonna get me some more pasta before I go on..

Yes… Thank God It’s Friday!
I’m tired today… even though I slept like a big sleeping thing. And the course… so boring today…
And dear lord.. some people can be so… I don’t know… We’re all adults at the course… yet.. a grown woman there.. I don’t know.. she’s late 30’s maybe? Passing notes… O.o
And being all *whisper whisper* with the guy she’s passing notes to… Of course they could have a thing going, however, he’s like 65 or something… and of course that could be her turn on’s… however… Passing notes like that.. like we were in high school… please…
On Monday I helped the same guy maneuvering the Internet.. and the computer. He had no computer know how what so ever, and seeing as I have my CV together, I know how to write an application etc. I decided to help him.
And we talked.. all the time.. and loads… and none of it had one thing to do with finding a job. And the course dude didn’t seem to mind.. I told him that I can do all this at home.. Of course I look and do what I have to, but I can help him all the same. I can multitask. And I told the old guy that if he had any questions at all, just to ask… But he hasn’t. He’s been all quiet and looked kinda scared, really.. well, not really.. but visiting the same site over and over again… I don’t think he can get out of it… lol
But, if he doesn’t want help, I can’t force it upon him… And.. he did have a talk with the course guy.. he might have told the old guy not to bother me with his trivial computer questions. And that if he wants to learn about computers, to do it on his own damned time… but of course I’m only speculating…
But it does make you wonder… Oh well.. not my problem.

And G… your site is down… again… :'(
And I was so looking forward to movie night tonight… D=

Lene

Mood: Pretty good..
Listening to: Some 60’s music thing…

So yeah…
Yesterday… woah.. what a day.
The day started off great. Like they always do… I went to the street and waited for the preggers lady…and she came. After we went to the course she left to see the doctors. At the course we learned about interviews. Yeah, I don’t know naught about that…
Then she came back from the doctors.. She got sick leave for the rest of the course… so bang goes my ride. So.. I asked the sweet sweet lady from Finland is she could drive me up the long winding hilly road to where I live, and she said sure.  I also discovered that the unemployed office hasn’t given me the money I should get for attending the course. So.. I called them and the guy I talked to said he could see I hadn’t gotten any money, but that I had to talk to my caseworker to sort it out… but.. my caseworker was gone yesterday and today.. so… I got put on hold for one of his coworkers.. the lady I talked to seemed like a scatter head… and she said she’d call me back in 10 min. she needed time to figure things out.
I waited for 10 min. 20 min. 30 min. 40 min. And by now I was getting even more pissed than I was before.
About 30 min or so before the course was over the Finish lady said she couldn’t drive me after all. So, in desperation I turned to the crowd and asked if there was anyone else… Luckily there was.
When he dropped me off he got all “Oh, I can pick you up AND drop you off every day if you want”… a little to eager for me. So I’ll try not to if I can help it. I mean.. I’m willing to walk down, that’s not a problem.
But for tomorrow my Jan can drive me and pick me up, so no worries. Hopefully the other guy will forget all about it.

Well home the unemployment office lady finally called me back… like a few minutes before the unemployment office close (at 4pm) and told me that the people who decide if you get money had decided that my money would be payed next time I send in a card thingie… So I have to wait 14 days.. yay…

After I had talked to her my Internet went down, and I struggled to get it back up. When I finally got it back up I finally got on the movie site.. and it seemed I couldn’t say anything right.
Ed, WHO CAME CRAWLING ON HAND AND KNEES, BEGGING FOR MY FORGIVENESS FOR THE WHOLE UGLY CHARLTON HESTON INCIDENT, got upset because I hadn’t mentioned that he had COME CRAWLING ON HANDS AND KNEES, BEGGING FOR MY FORGIVENESS FOR THE WHOLE UGLY CHARLTON HESTON INCIDENT… and I called him a drama queen when he was struggling to get the knife out of his back that I figuratively stabbed him with.
And then G got upset because I said I didn’t like PeeWee Herman.

But yeah… even though I got pissed of and things didn’t really go well yesterday, I don’t mind it. There are good days and there are bad…

Speaking of days..  Today I went out to hand out open applications…. I only got to hand out one. All them others were all full up with helpers and stuff… so yeah… I don’t think they’ll be too happy with me, but they can go fuck themselves if they are unhappy with my work. I did what I was supposed to do today. It’s not my fault they don’t need people.
I guess the only thing for me to do is start my own business…
Bra Heaven… sounds nice XD

Lene