Sorry I haven't really been spending much time online and haven't really been keeping up with people or interacting with them. At least I acknowledge the fact and apologise, unlike many others who just assume they are the centre of the universe and they don't have to bother with anyone else. Therefore I know I can't expect anything more of anyone else with regards to me - I've just not had the same time or enthusiasm for being online.

A few funny things happened at the Scottish Training Foundation this week. First off, some guy wandered in looking for someone and he was a complete dead ringer for the "who dear, me dear, gay dear, no dear!" character from The Catherine Tate Show (which coincidentally I've been watching again this week). Second, you can borrow their mobile phone to chase up job leads and keep a job log to show the jobcentre what you're doing to find work. So one of the guys saw an advertisement for male escorts in The Sun and decided to phone it up and was encouraged to put it in his job log. Apparently a lot of business women get dates this way and it pays 150 pounds per hour (and sex costs extra), so not bad work if you're up for it. There is some payment you've got to make of nearly 200 pounds to register though which sounds a bit like a take the money and run play on their part (where you'll probably never hear from them again afterwards). Lastly, one of the men who was finishing up his time this week, got a joke letter (supposedly from the jobcentre), telling him that because he hadn't had a placement in all that time he was being forced to do another 11 weeks. Hook, line and sinker! I was there when it was pulled on him and he was taking it very seriously with the guy in charge of us pretending to arrange an appointment to see the jobcentre about it. Alas I wasn't there when he got told at the last minute that it was a wind up (arranged by his friends the day before, also while I was there).

Less amusing for me was my interview with a contact centre yesterday. I got two afternoons off from STF so I can't complain there (once to see my advisor for a travel warrant, the other to use the voucher I got for interview clothes from Burtons). But it was lucky I left early for the interview in Paisley (place of my birth) as it took me an hour or more of wandering in circles to find the building (and even knowing now where it is, it's not my idea of pedestrian friendly - a real bitch to get to). Won't know the outcome of the interview until next week but I know I wouldn't enjoy being one of those annoying nuisances who phone up people to sell them something, the travelling and the office clothes for most of the week (Fridays and Saturdays allow casual dress) and I know I'd prefer part time hours to 30 hours or more a week (what's the point of money if you have little to no spare time to enjoy it?). Visited a few pubs in Paisley including The Anchor which I remembered going to with my uncle on a visit to Paisley in the mid 1990s. I fancied the barmaid at the time but she's probably moved on by now (thankfully as most of you know how these things turn out for me - I'm much better off only having eyes for Paris). It's changed a lot since the old days anyway.

Saw another early Paris role in the movie The Hillz this week. It's marginally more entertaining than the horror movie Nine Lives. But on the minus side it's still a pretty shoddy TV movie type production with nothing to write home about in the writing or acting stakes. Paris only has the occassional couple of minutes here and there throughout the film (at least in Nine Lives all her scenes were in the first twenty minutes making for a quick viewing when I want to see the scenes again), which means there will be a lot of fast forwarding going on when I want to see Paris's scenes again. Also, the scene where her asshole boyfriend in the movie grabs Paris by the face and hits her, makes me want to jump in the TV and rip the bastard limb from limb (I'm guessing this DVD won't be enjoying a second life as an anger management tool then *g*). Someone else in the movie gets him killed for it but they don't even bother to torture or dismember him first!

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