My friend told me a story that had me in stitches today. He was on a bus, when two Australians walked on and asked for two tickets -

"Hey mate, can I have 2 tickets to Loogabaroo?"

Bus driver: What?!

Australians: You know, Loogabaroo?

Friends on bus: *Watch with intent*

Bus driver: I've never heard of a Loogabaroo mate...

Australians: *Get out leaflet* Nah, here you see, Loogabaroo.

Bus driver looks at the leaflet and tried to stop himself from laughing. It was a leaflet with information about Loughborough

In all fairness I pronounced it wrong at first, thought it was pronounced "Loff-bur-uh" Like cough, but it's pronounced "Luff-bur-uh". But definitely not pronounced Loogabaroo. My friend proper belly laughed when that conversation took place hahaha, I woulda been pissing myself too. I thought it was hilarious.

Yayyy

As the title implies I have a temporary job - the company estimated that I (And a hell of a lot of other people, about 60 new employees I'd say ) would be working there for around 4-10 weeks, maybe longer. They probably won't keep people on after that, but I don't mind. I'm glad it's temporary, because it means that I can get into doing loads of school work again soon. I have a lot to do, but we'll save that for another journal.

So, what do I do? Well I work for a call centre really, but it's not one the gives you outgoing calls, asking you if you want a boiler, or a really super state of the art hoover, or a cat, or something absolutely stupid like that, thankfully, I wouldn't like doing that. We only receive calls, from people who are worried or want information about their insurance policies/data, whatever. So, basically, I work in a call centre called TSC, but I answer calls for an insurance company, Zurich. The people who ring up are...well endowed when it comes to money, shall we say. More upper class people ring up, and celebrities too apparently...I don't know why they told us that though, I honestly don't care if they're famous or not. All I care about is getting paid

So, I get paid £6.50 an hour and I only work part time, in the day on the weekends. I earn a little short of £100 a week, which you know...pretty swish right Well I'm pleased with it, even if it is temporary. It's really good for a first job and for someone under 18 (17), plus it's a good job to put on a CV, shows good experience, been able to handle people when they're not in the calmest state, been polite, been able to handle awkward situations etc...so in all, I am very pleased! This is cool, though I am sure it will begin to wear me down after a few weeks of it...but that's why they call it work, right?

I feel the need to update this thing today, I'm not really active all that much around here anymore. I'm kinda busy doing other things, but I'm also never sure what I should actually put I have something I can talk about today though, so...


I watched Coraline today. I didn't have any great expectations of it from the adverts. I mean, yeah, it looked pretty cool, the animation and character designs were great - but it looked to me like it would be for the young teenagers of today who think they're cool wearing their Jack and Sally rucksacks that you probably couldn't fit a dead rat in - so I thought the producers were over compensating, making the visuals appeal to their audience to make up for lack of character depth and story line. There wasn't exactly much information about the story line in the adverts on the TV, just a blue haired girl talking to a woman with button eyes (Something else that would most likely appeal to all the younger teenagers around here). However, I was pleasantly surprised! They sure taught me not to be a cynic ever now and then, I really enjoyed the movie. The main character, Coraline (who would have guessed...) is really loveable I think, realistic too. I'm not sure how old she's supposed to be, but she really is a great character. Not perfect at all, loads of realistic flaws. Her parents are realistic, too. I think the younger teens will actually like it because they might be able to relate to their parents not having enough time for them, concentrating on their career, what with the current economical status of the world. The little cat sidekick is a nice touch too, shows up to give bits of advice to Coraline in just the right places, but doesn't give her too much advice, just enough for her to figure things out and gain independence through out the film. The story line is really good too, I understood it first time (which is unusual for me since I usually like films such as Donnie Darko & The Butterfly Effect - not the easiest films to get a grasp on), but it was so simple that it makes you bored, you do think about it for a bit.

I'd recommend it to anyone...but it's only just come out on DVD, so watch it online somewhere. That's what I did, now I've ordered the DVD, the novel and the graphic novel I'm looking forward to the graphic novel, I love comic books. If anyones seen this film or they have read the novel/graphic novel, let me know what you think

I've also watched The Butterfly Effect. I loved it so much, if you like Donnie Darko, or you like films that make you think, or films that make you want to watch them again, then watch it. It's about £4 from Play.com and I bet it's about £2 from ebay or preowned DVD shops like Cex Super awesome value.

I'm now watching Batman and Robin since I've never watched it before, or can remember watching it at least In all honesty I'm watching it because I love Poison Ivy...in the comics and the games, that is. I'm not sure about in this film, not got to a part with her in it yet, we'll see how that goes. I'm into around 8 minutes of the film and I've already come to the conclusion that Robin is a massive retard who should just shut the fuck up and go back to school. I'm glad you die so many times in the comics Robin, you're a retard.


That's all I have to say School in the morning, I love school, I love seeing my friends and all of that...lifes really good at the moment, maybe one day I'll update a journal telling you about that, it's a bit more important than random movies...to me anyway

Hope whoever reads this is also having fun with life Much love to you

But I do not mind They cancelled because...I don't actually know :S but either way it means I can both get some commissions done AND do homework...then I can...do whatever the hell I like tomorrow

I wonder if I will actually do any of the above I just mentioned, I hope so

Mature That's such a daft thing to do, I explained this in the previous journal, chill out and stop caring about this stuff, it's just not worth anything at all. Merely a petty internet feud between people who don't talk any more...btw I don't want to talk to you :S I dunno where you got that impression from...you'd think an adult would be above this sort if thing, no?

It's only quarter past 10 here in't t'old England yet I am tired because I ate take away pizza and chips...God damn I am gonna die so young if I keep been so fat I should lose weight I suppose...I'll start that up again this Monday since I'm busy doing Sixth Form work this weekend, and going out for tea tomorrow because it's some of my friends birthday, and also a few people in the group are going to University, so I won't be seeing them as often. It's sort of a good thing despite the fact I'll miss them, it means I have less people to distract me from work for Sixth Form...so then I can go to University myself...man that's going to be absolutely terrifying but also an amazing experience and one big long path of self discovery won't it I doubt then I'll be on the internet...or at least here, much, if at all. Need to go and...develop as a person and...live man I am so looking forward to it, I'll miss everyone though, especially my closer friends...I miss them when they're off sick never mind on the other side of the country Anyhow...I'm tired, so to bed I go