I'm shifty on the metaphors today. I can't decide if job interviews are like auditions or like gong shows. The latter is funnier but makes more of a joke out of me. Take Monday, for example.* Or take two Mondays ago, when they put me on the spot like a traitor to the crown and later, after I declined the second interview, asked me to model for their media kit.**

A friend of mine, who's been working on his screenplay for a year, is putting it into the hands of someone who wants it. I gave him the URL of a job board for screenplay writers and he was off.***

My next "project" (if you'll call it that) is to get my abs into shape for Halloween 2004. I need to get another use out of the Hula Girl costume, something akin to last year's Anarchist Hula Girl. What could it possibly be. Ideas and suggestions are, of course, always welcome.****



Notes on the Above:
* Monday: I realize on writing the reference to this job interview that I don't really want to tell the story. But just so you know, I had a gong show of an interview that day. This is a literary device called, teasing, and then alienating, the reader.

** model for their media kit: being paid cash to hold a paint roller or pretend I'm at a barbecue with my equally-diverse circle of very happy friends and well-wishers? Deal.

*** a friend of mine: Good luck Noah. I hope something good comes of it.

****ideas and suggestions: Do not suggest Slutty Hula Girl.