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| Start! |
Got an annoying letter last week saying that the government wants a copy of my birth certificate. That I mailed them near to a year ago. Fantastic. So I did that on Monday. Very surprised to get my own letter back on Tuesday. Turns out my dumb ass as always had a moment of spatial dyslexia along with my regular dyslexia and mixed up the sender and recipient address placements. This is so dumb! I always think, man, I should really just double-check in case and do I ever? Obviously not. Good to know that if I ever want to send something to myself from the post-office a 100 meters from my house that it will likely be next day delivery. Anyway, had to send it again on Tuesday, a perfect 3 euro wasted.
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| My cat being dumb. |
On Wednesday I took the 9 AM train to a nearby town for the job fair. It was mostly full of employment agencies that get you some part-time/seasonal work. I think the job market in my department could very well be fucked. It wasn't the usual assembly on middle-aged folk and immigrants (like me) who are fumbling through the bureaucratic job searching nightmare that is French work options. There were also a bunch of people my age or younger too. Things are fucked.
I also didn't expect there to be that many booths so my dumb ass only printed 3 CVs. I mostly printed them for just in case, like if they wanted to read them over but every booth's representative actually took my CV and kept it. So 90s, I love it. Every job I've ever gotten with a CV before has been online so this was pretty fun, I guess. It will be fun if anyone calls me back.
I had so long before the train that I had a whole two hours to just wander. Went to see one of my fave buildings first. It's very retro-futuristic and I love buildings like it. Bring this goofy architecture back!
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| She's perfect. |
I also went by the cultural exchange bell this town shares with a Chinese town. I've not heard it actually ring which is a shame, because apparently it's supposed to do that when the horoscope signs change. The overall translation of all the info boards into English was good with some minor mistakes, repetitions, and one hilarious instance of direct translation.
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| Is your zodiac sign The Beef? |
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| A nice way to live. |
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| I'm the wild orchid. You? |
Some good news on that front actually. Half-good anyway. We are going back to work for the kiwi farmer-friend for a few days. When I say I work on a kiwi farm I mean that very literally, I'm not talking about the harassment website. Anyway, he's looking to plant some new saplings/trees as his last batch died due to some calcium-rich water. We got there just before 8 AM, work consisted of this: dig up some shallow holes about 50cm in diameter, plant the kiwi plant, move on. Wanna know how many there were to plant? 1000 female and 100 male trees. I didn't know that apparently it's got to do with the type of flowers the kiwi tree has. Woke trees with their pronouns, ugh! Am joking.
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| Struggling to get that Lily Chou-Chou shot on a budget. |
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| It rained and it was gross. |
There was a highlight to my day though. The mother of all highlights! We were allowed to drive a tractor up and down the rows, on the account of we're not gonna carry all those plants by hand. Anyway, I was kinda stressed to try at first but I did drive it just up and down the row a few times and then did some turns as well...guys, tractors are fun. I kinda get what all the hillbillies are on about now.
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| Get in loser, we're going farming. |
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| They call me a killer, a monster, a terrorist... I'm all of these things. |
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| View from hill not too far out of town. |
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| I feel powerful!! |
Anyway, on Friday my brother almost took out an entire barn wall backing the tractor out of a real narrow spot. He moved the bottom brick's beneath the wooden wall... significantly. We thought we were truly fucked and we still couldn't get the tractor out. Anyway, the boss sent a farmhand who said it wasn't a big deal and that we'd just help fix it later. Phew... Anyway, here's a POV video: we are slowly going to run my brother over with a tractor for his crimes.
But yeah my brother will never live this down and anytime he brings anything up it will be followed by 'and then you wrecked the barn wall, right?'. He was pretty traumatized by the events sadly and refused to drive the tractor all day. Here's just me tractoring on his behalf.
On Saturday it was just me and my brother as my mum had to take my sister to some open door events at local high schools. She's starting high school next year likely, unless they will hold her a year back. I do have some fond memories of that time for myself but I'd hate to go back so I don't totally envy her.
Sure was sore by Sunday but it still felt better than any service job I've ever done. Maybe a little better than teaching. Mostly on the account of the fact that the boss just let us work in the field and wasn't hovering.
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| And I live by that. |
But yeah, digging all day by hand with a shovel and constantly squatting down to plant shit is exhausting. No surprise that farm work is hard work but does make me think. Every kiwi I never finished... yeah, if you've ever went and bought kiwis and you let them rot away... think about me toiling the fields, man. I won't be mad, just disappointed. Finish your kiwis!
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| End of week 13! |
This Week I'm Excited For...
Excited to get paid, baby. We're scheduled to work next week too so it will be pretty neat to make a little cash. Most of it will go to house renovations. We got holes in the roof, man. And the windows are shit, letting all the warmth out in the winter and letting all the heat in in the summer. But I might put about 100 away for the Huion I'm trying to buy.
Song Of The Week...
I will stop talking about GTAV one day, I swear. But there's no denying that this made-for-the-game song has been stuck in my head. I try not to include songs from my 365 playlist on the SOTW playlist but when a song is a song of the week, it's a song of the week, man!
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