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Appletizing

This weekend was weird.

Friday I spent all morning cleaning so that I could allow a woman doing research into Men Who Like To Cook into my home. I capitalize that because that's the best way I can describe her study. At first I thought it was going to be all Gender based questions regarding my views of roles within the home but it turned out to be a lot more curious - the questions she was asking going into hour 2 were a lot more personal than I expected and at one point I had a revelation that I actually derive my pleasure for cooking from when I would come home from school about an hour earlier than my Dad and would start dinner. He would come home and complete the meal. Teamwork! Comfort! Valour! Effort! etc... Afterwards, I made SharkBoy a nice dinner of beef quesadillas.

Saturday we basically played it low key and took turns on the PS3 trying to plough through our games. I'm still on Mass Effect 2 and SharkBoy is eating up Uncharted 2: Among Thieves. I've never seen him so obsessed with a game - I've created a monster. Later we met up with GroveOfBlue and Fortress of Solitude and enjoyed Kick Ass and then the first two episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race. I wish I could download things from the web again. Dang Rogers and their silly DMA threats.

Sunday was dinner with Dad after a day of naps. Da is officially 78 or something silly. Doesn't act it, though. Happy B-day Da!

After dinner I high tailed it to the Apple store up at the Yorkdale mall where I sat in on a hiring seminar. A few days ago I applied for a part time job for the summer since I: 1) don't have any projects or plans for this summer and 2) want more money doing something I like doing - namely telling people what to do with their computers.

When I got there, I was the oldest in the room (of about 40 people). Oddly enough this didn't intimidate me at all, however the amount of scarves on these twentysomething hipsters in 17C weather was quite disconcerting. Thankfully I was wearing my big nerd eyeglass frames or I'd be seen as the totally non-hipster old guy in the room. I find out later this week if I got an appointment with the "People Leader" and then on to the appropriate store manager for training. Fingers sort of crossed. If I get it, great! If not... meh. Moving on...