The past few days
Perhaps my least ambitious post title to date, oh well.
Wednesday went to a job interview in vernon hills at a food manufacturer. I left a fair amount of time for getting lost and that's exactly what I did. Google maps steered me wrong replacing a left with a right and after 20 minutes and consulting a map that might be as old as me I was able to find the correct road again and proceed on. I then had another unfortunate detour when I mistook corporate woodlands parkway for corporate woods parkway. (they are separated by only about 200 yds) Seriously, who puts two streets with those names in even the remote vicinity of each other. It boggled my mind. Fortunately I was able to figure it out and arrived for the interview exactly 2 minutes early. Long story short, was offered the job, would be working in the Q + A lab to test samples coming off the line and also would work in and learn the operations side of the enterprise. Didn't sound like a bad gig, pay is ok, I may even take it.
Thursday Rachael had off from work and we decided to try for the Adobo Grill for lunch followed by a matinee of Tristram Shandy. Unfortunately the Grill isn't open for lunch and piper's alley wasn't showing that particular cock and bull story until 5. So we meandered around old town and had lunch at O'Briens, our decision being handedly made for us by virtue of that restaurant actually being open. We enjoyed some non-traditional irish food, (toasted pita chips covered with various cheeses, tomato, artichokes, and tomato in addition to sandwiches) and then headed over to cold stone for dessert. We were their 2nd customers in the 1.5 hrs they'd been open, though in summer you can't get into the place so I guess they're doing ok. We enjoyed some white choclate ice cream with heath and peanut butter cups: pretty good stuff. After conversing for an hour about the differences between American and European restaurant culture, we realized we were really close to a free zoo. So we walked over, passing near the spot where the last surviving member of the boston tea party is buried, I can picture him at the age of 115 knocking over cups of tea screaming "down with english taxation" and then promptly falling asleep mummering to himself.
The zoo was actually pretty fun. We checked out the ape house and watched several young gorillas at play for a while. At the monkey house I was enthralled watching an adolescent member of the Cercopithecus neglectus species (De Brazza's monkey) repeatedly run and jump onto to an elder's back before jumping again for a swinging rope, much to the perturbation of his trampoline. We also checked out the reptile house and the large predatory cats. The lions were especially active and rachael was a bit worried that they were eyeing her in particular as their future comestible of choice. All in all, how can you go wrong with a free zoo with no crowds when you happen to be in the neighborhood. After all of this we went and saw Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.
I had read several good reviews and was excited to see it. I was not disappointed, though about a 1/3 of the way through they almost entirely abandon showing the movie based the book and it turns into a movie about the making of the movie. I am sure that somewhere various postmodern enthusiasts are glad and aghast at this step depending on their level of pretension. Rachael liked it as well despite never reading the book and I think that anyone should be able to do the same, its just a very fun and funny movie. The dialogue between the 2 co-stars shown during the ending credits I found especially funny.
This afternoon I had another job interview, this time with a trading company in the loop. It went ok, I think I did fairly well, but my sense is that I didn't impress them enough to get the job. Oh well, I'll find out next week sometime. The high point for me was getting to take the Wonderlic Test, which is somewhat well-known from its use in the NFL combine. Last week I even spent a for minutes taking a gander at a sample test that ESPN page 2 had on its website. Well I was very amused when one of the questions from the sample test wound up on the real test. I got it right. I think I scored somewhere in the mid-30s, my guess being 33-34, out of 50 which puts me somewhat closer to harvard educated punters (50) than BCS Championship MVPs from UT. (6, supposedly) Tonight its off to test wine for a wedding and play some settlers.
Wednesday went to a job interview in vernon hills at a food manufacturer. I left a fair amount of time for getting lost and that's exactly what I did. Google maps steered me wrong replacing a left with a right and after 20 minutes and consulting a map that might be as old as me I was able to find the correct road again and proceed on. I then had another unfortunate detour when I mistook corporate woodlands parkway for corporate woods parkway. (they are separated by only about 200 yds) Seriously, who puts two streets with those names in even the remote vicinity of each other. It boggled my mind. Fortunately I was able to figure it out and arrived for the interview exactly 2 minutes early. Long story short, was offered the job, would be working in the Q + A lab to test samples coming off the line and also would work in and learn the operations side of the enterprise. Didn't sound like a bad gig, pay is ok, I may even take it.
Thursday Rachael had off from work and we decided to try for the Adobo Grill for lunch followed by a matinee of Tristram Shandy. Unfortunately the Grill isn't open for lunch and piper's alley wasn't showing that particular cock and bull story until 5. So we meandered around old town and had lunch at O'Briens, our decision being handedly made for us by virtue of that restaurant actually being open. We enjoyed some non-traditional irish food, (toasted pita chips covered with various cheeses, tomato, artichokes, and tomato in addition to sandwiches) and then headed over to cold stone for dessert. We were their 2nd customers in the 1.5 hrs they'd been open, though in summer you can't get into the place so I guess they're doing ok. We enjoyed some white choclate ice cream with heath and peanut butter cups: pretty good stuff. After conversing for an hour about the differences between American and European restaurant culture, we realized we were really close to a free zoo. So we walked over, passing near the spot where the last surviving member of the boston tea party is buried, I can picture him at the age of 115 knocking over cups of tea screaming "down with english taxation" and then promptly falling asleep mummering to himself.
The zoo was actually pretty fun. We checked out the ape house and watched several young gorillas at play for a while. At the monkey house I was enthralled watching an adolescent member of the Cercopithecus neglectus species (De Brazza's monkey) repeatedly run and jump onto to an elder's back before jumping again for a swinging rope, much to the perturbation of his trampoline. We also checked out the reptile house and the large predatory cats. The lions were especially active and rachael was a bit worried that they were eyeing her in particular as their future comestible of choice. All in all, how can you go wrong with a free zoo with no crowds when you happen to be in the neighborhood. After all of this we went and saw Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story.
I had read several good reviews and was excited to see it. I was not disappointed, though about a 1/3 of the way through they almost entirely abandon showing the movie based the book and it turns into a movie about the making of the movie. I am sure that somewhere various postmodern enthusiasts are glad and aghast at this step depending on their level of pretension. Rachael liked it as well despite never reading the book and I think that anyone should be able to do the same, its just a very fun and funny movie. The dialogue between the 2 co-stars shown during the ending credits I found especially funny.
This afternoon I had another job interview, this time with a trading company in the loop. It went ok, I think I did fairly well, but my sense is that I didn't impress them enough to get the job. Oh well, I'll find out next week sometime. The high point for me was getting to take the Wonderlic Test, which is somewhat well-known from its use in the NFL combine. Last week I even spent a for minutes taking a gander at a sample test that ESPN page 2 had on its website. Well I was very amused when one of the questions from the sample test wound up on the real test. I got it right. I think I scored somewhere in the mid-30s, my guess being 33-34, out of 50 which puts me somewhat closer to harvard educated punters (50) than BCS Championship MVPs from UT. (6, supposedly) Tonight its off to test wine for a wedding and play some settlers.
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