Awww Whirly :( Like Mippio said , to me working in a record shop would be so cool , but NOT if u have to do other things than what your hired for...hope your gonna find something better soon. ((((Hugs))))



Well....just heard the bad news. I'm going home anyway. I dont work , maybe i'll have one more job monday , we will have to wait for the confirmation tomorrow...if i dont get this job i'll go home Monday.....so AT LEAST I HAVE ONE MORE WEEKEND HERE! I'm sad because i thought i could stay one more month but i cant :( And i just called my bank account and i am SO FUCKING BROKE and i sucks cos god knows when my next paycheque is comming.

ARGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Aw, you all are so sweet.



Mipps, I sent out resumes for a couple of office jobs doing general office work. I know it's not the most challenging thing, but it's a foot in the door to something larger maybe. And the pay. I know I shouldn't be motivated by money but the reality is, I'm 33 and I don't make enough money now to set up for a decent retirement plan. And our rent will either go up in October, and we might have to move. If we want to stay in the area we love where my son doesn't have to change schools, I need a better paying job.



My mother-in-law works for a media production company that provides the crew and supplies for advertising agencies and their clients when they go on shoots. I would really like to get in there, somehow, even if it means being a coffee gopher at first. It seems to be a stimulating environment with room to grow, and something I can learn a lot from.



Jeanie, I am so sorry about what's happening (or not happening) with your work. What a downer! It would be nice to stay in Japan, but also if you can't get any work you're probably better off going home, at least you are sort of grounded there, your family is there - maybe that sense of being grounded could be good for finding more work. Plus if you're broke, jeez, it would be horrible to be in Japan and be completely broke! Anyway, good luck with everything. I'm sure you'll be able to get work. Maybe Japan just isn't the right environment for you right now.

yeh i totally hear ya on the cash front whirly, at the end of the day bills are bills and theyve gotta be paid :( sometimes office work can be quite cool, it all depends who you work with - ive done some hideous admin jobsd in my time but the money was alright and the people were cool as fuck! ive also done jobs im really into, and becasue the people were such twats i hated it and had to leave.



the production thing sounds pretty ace, a good combination of interesting work and better pay, yeh give it bash dude!!



jeanie, i guess thats one of the downsides of being freelance or whatever, if the work aint there it aint there :( what a bummer! i kind of fear the same thing happening when i try and get music work, if im having to rely on it to pay the mortgage or whatever, what happens if the people im writing for decide that my musc sucks and dont give me anymore work :? shit, im gonna be 27 when i finish being a student and im gonna have to work from the ground up. gaaaah!



too much deep thinking for a tuesday!! X-D



still, since im gonna win the lottery next week, soon money wont be an issue, and ill throw a big party and your all invited!! maybe ill even get the chems to dj for us X-D

Jeanie Escribi�:

whirlygirl Escribi�:

haha! I just had amusing mental theater... face down... in a toilet... the ass spray comes on... hilarity ensues!

X-D

WRAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAA X-D X-D X-D Oooooow hhaahahahaa that was so funny hahaha. U know this one time i decided to check out all the buttons on our toilet. Suddenly this things starts spraying and i jumped up , the whole toilet wet hahahaa, i didnt know how to turn it off....yeah , that was hilarious ;)



And sorry , i tought Stash was being sarcastic ;)

TODAY ON PIMP MY BATH:



Hey X, We gonna put 15 17 inch monitors into the back



of Jeanie's Toto Bath then give her 4 playstation 2's



in her headlight. Then add a fog machine on the



inside so she can bust out with those dope beats



coming from her 12 subwoofers. This Bath is gonna be



bustin' !



X-D

MIPPS!!



I WANNA PARTY ON THE BOAT!



dude, that looked like a fricken blast.

mippio Escribi�:

is there anything in particular you fancy doing??

Yeah, she want's to work in a sex shop in Ibiza... hook a sister up!

God, thinking about "after school" is frightening. I'm just waiting on the Pharmacy admission news right now, and if I don't get in this year, I've absolutely no idea what to do. I'm broke as it is, but at least I can look forward to the big pay-day after 4 more years of school if I get in. If not, I have little to no career prospects unless anyone here needs a historian?



I wouldn't mind working in an Ibizan sex shop either, mind. :D



And mx, that bath actually sounds pretty cool. Subs in the tub. 8)

robot.mx Escribi�:

Jeanie Escribi�:

whirlygirl Escribi�:

haha! I just had amusing mental theater... face down... in a toilet... the ass spray comes on... hilarity ensues!

X-D

WRAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAA X-D X-D X-D Oooooow hhaahahahaa that was so funny hahaha. U know this one time i decided to check out all the buttons on our toilet. Suddenly this things starts spraying and i jumped up , the whole toilet wet hahahaa, i didnt know how to turn it off....yeah , that was hilarious ;)



And sorry , i tought Stash was being sarcastic ;)

TODAY ON PIMP MY BATH:



Hey X, We gonna put 15 17 inch monitors into the back



of Jeanie's Toto Bath then give her 4 playstation 2's



in her headlight. Then add a fog machine on the



inside so she can bust out with those dope beats



coming from her 12 subwoofers. This Bath is gonna be



bustin' !



X-D

HAHAHAHAHHAAHAHA Yeah that is so Pimp My Ride that language , ow i love that program hahahahaha X-D





So well today we'll have to wait and see wether i go home or not , but most likely.....yes. GRRR! yeah being a freelance has its downside's aswell!

Hey, everyone who's working at the moment, be thankful you don't have 4 exams coming up!!!



Aaaaand on that note, everyone who's working at the moment, be jealous that you dont have a holiday to Queensland coming up, for the total cost of $180AUD return ;-)



[That's right - i finally got paid for my services to DJing at the Ballarat Grammar School Ball! I got a rediculous amount of cash for playing top 40 to 400 school kids - not only that but they gave me a LIST of the songs to play. That was the easiest cash i've ever made in my life.]

No, I don't have any exams coming up - I don't intend doing any more for the rest of my life!!!!! :) ;-)

hah today i saw a car and it said





WE GALVANIZE YOUR FENCE!

8O 8O 8O 8O

Does it do exactly what it says on the tin? ;-)

My job is so fucking...unpredictable. Now i found out i'm gonna stay AT LEAST Until June 13....:D:D:D Cause i got two nmore jobs , one i for.......ahahahahaa........Hold Tight........



PRINGLES



Wrahahahaa and my friends used to call me the "Pringle Monster"



hahahahaa how funny is that X-D





ow and yesterday we had 4 eartquakes in 3 hours. that was , well i shouldnt say this :-// but it was pretty cool. No one got harmed and stuff so it's all okay haha. yeah it's weird u know when suddenly i start shaking!

so if you're working for pringles can u send me some free boxes i love sour cream and onion flavour

Jeanie Escribi�:

My job is so fucking...unpredictable. Now i found out i'm gonna stay AT LEAST Until June 13....:D:D:D Cause i got two nmore jobs , one i for.......ahahahahaa........Hold Tight........



PRINGLES



Wrahahahaa and my friends used to call me the "Pringle Monster"



hahahahaa how funny is that X-D





ow and yesterday we had 4 eartquakes in 3 hours. that was , well i shouldnt say this :-// but it was pretty cool. No one got harmed and stuff so it's all okay haha. yeah it's weird u know when suddenly i start shaking!

Hey congrats on the working gig! Now whenever I see Garnier products *and* Pringles, I think of that crazy Dutch girl who loves fucking excellent acid house!



Earthquakes freak me out! Where I am, we're due for a big one, a real house shaker. It's been years since we've have one that's jolted us out of bed in the middle of the night. They can be kind of creepy because there's different types of tremors, and even if it's a small quake, the closer you are to the epicenter the more powerful it feels. The rolling ones aren't so bad, but the ones that just quake like a giant has picked up your house and started shaking it around like a spoiled child does with a dollhouse - those ones are the worst. You can hear the rumbling and creaking and what sounds like dirt crumbling through the walls, and everything in your house starts coming off the shelves. And if it happens while you're asleep (which they usually do, strangely enough) it's hard to go back to sleep.



One thing that's great about Japan is that their architectural technology in earthquake retrofitting is quite highly advanced and they've learned to adapt to quakes. The buildings withstand larger and more frequent quakes compared to the travesties that happened in Turkey or other less developed (architecturally) countries...

EXACTLY! U can really FEEL the difference! Like , last year we had MANY earthquakes , and mostly "rolling" ones and those are not so bad cause u kinda shake but not so fast , hard to explain. But 3 days ago i was in the car waitng for the other girls to come back and the car was kind off bouncing...! That was more freaky...! And if i'm in the appartment , ( This is freaky ) FIRST i hear the walls kind off....ticking or cracking kind off sound and than 5 sec's later it starts to shake. The only thing that freaks me out is the sound BEFORE the quake!

dint realize japan had so many tremors. guess it makes sense since they're on a big fault line.



whirly: how close are you to those houses that caved in on the coast? dunno how big laguna is really. looks like too many houses and too little land.

Ugh, that creaking, ticking sound you hear in the walls when the building starts to rumble... it's very unnerving, like it keeps you wondering if the building is going to fall down on top of you.



I've pretty much grown up in California so I've been through a lot of earthquakes. I remember one of the scariest ones was back when I was in high school. A section of my school was in an old building, not up to code. By European standards of course the building wouldn't be old, but for us in California, a building made in the 1920's is considered ancient. And the windows were pretty old as well, and they had a sort of warped look to some of the really old ones. So anyway. That was where my English class was. I'll never forget, we were having quiet reading time with Grapes of Wrath, and with no warning it felt like the room started to jostle on its side. There was a massive rumbling sound and everything started shaking like wild. I've never seen people move so fast - everyone including me was under their desk in a split second and the kids sitting by the windows went into survival mode and got the hell out from under them. This went on for a good minute or so - the building just swayed and shook and you could hear the desks bouncing up and down and the chalkboard shaking on the wall, and everyone was dead silent. I kept thinking, "Oh god, I don't want to die at school!!" X-D Finally it ended and the alarms went off, so all the kids and staff at school had to go outside while the fire department came in to survey the damage. Not a whole lot of damage, but some stores in downtown Laguna Beach had their windows blown out. It was strange, because it felt like the biggest quake - but it was about a 4.0. The kicker was the epicenter was only a few miles away and that's why it felt as strong as it did.



Earthquakes may freak me out, but I really love talking about them!

Yeah me to....!



Well we dont get them that bad here , or actually we do , but i think it's cause of the architecture that we feel it less. The biggest one i felt was 7.8 , and it was 250 KM west of us....that one we felt pretty strong but i never hard stuff falling of my shelves. This is weird cause the 7.8 one , the door started smashing but nothing fell of the shelves...isn't that weird. But yeah , we have earthquakes everyday here cause there a 3 ehm...plates ? Earthplates ? comming togheter underneath Japan.

And Typhoons aswell. And last time there was a Tornado but that was in the north of Tokyo and i live in the south...Tokyo is big! It was just extremely windy and rainy here...!

f(n) Escribi�:

dint realize japan had so many tremors. guess it makes sense since they're on a big fault line.



whirly: how close are you to those houses that caved in on the coast? dunno how big laguna is really. looks like too many houses and too little land.

From where my home is, we're actually a 10 minute drive from where the landslides were - we live a bit more inland and away from the water, and the affected area is in one of the many canyons that surround the coast.



Laguna's more like a narrow strip of a town that runs along the coast about 8-10 miles from north to south, and it reaches anywhere between 1 and 3 miles inland depending on where you are. There's a lot of rough canyon terrain that overlooks the ocean, and over the years it's become a desirable place to live so the houses are built mostly with a couple things in mind: to take advantage of the view or incoming ocean breeze, and build as much house as possible on very little land. Architects will do anything to achieve this, even if it means building houses where only half of it is on actual bedrock and the other half is on steel pillars jutting out from hillsides. A lot of newer homes are more structurally sound and most have foundations on solid bedrock - which isn't a problem usually even if the houses are built close together (pretty much the norm here in S. California.) The problem with what happened in Laguna the other day is the areas affected were not bedrock. It was really just dirt (and fill from a previous landslide) that's subject to the whims of nature.