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I should have mentioned that w/ the new job I asked how to proceed re:
A medical I need to take to get a legit employment pass.
Supervisor tells me: "Let’s have a chat when I have time and you have time".
She then legs it to Bible class.

There are three teams. I was taken on as the C-Team copywriter.
When I was young I used to watch this TV programme: the A-Team.
Mt.T was in it. He played a guy called "B.A.". Stood for ‘Bad Attitude’.
One of his lines was ‘"DON'T HATE THE MAN... PITY THE FOOL"

I got a B(A). I got it at a University in England.
But it doesn’t seem to count for much here.
Here I find my English is adapted into clumsy nonsense by Clients .

Slim Hope passes the hooch to Fat Chance.
They sing a blues number.

COMMERCIAL PORPOISES
Sign up for an international beer company's mailing list for music and there's a brief questionaire portion where the question is posed: "What kind of music do you like?"
Options to choose from amount to: "Chill Out", "Fake Jazz", "Lame Lounge" , "Boring House", "Vaguely European Coolster Funk", "Smooth Condo Soundtracks", "TV-Commercial Wallpaper Unit Shifters" or other such-like genres in that ballpark.

Grunge, Spunky Monkey Punk, Windypop, Fey Agit Jangle, Kinky Xinyao in English and The Old Blues don’t figure as viable consumer-choice considerations in their marketing stats. This may be a good thing. It could means these styles are still cool and untouched by commerce. Heaven knows that The White Stripes artisitc integrity will be intact so long as they never figure in the background of soccer hightlights on TV; that "Happy Together" will only be a good song as long as it isn't used in a beer ad; that John Lee Hooker is only legendary provided his "Boom Boom" isn't used to promote a product... and so forth. Some might think that, and therefore can wield accusations of "Sell-out" in many a-place - John Lee Hooker included. Luckily, music transcends.

Speaking of which...
I saw some Commercial Porpoises on the bus to work this morning. They wore kipper ties. Followed by tuna. Flippers meant they had difficulty holding their briefcases.

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On Tuesday: I get told that am 'always' late for work. told this by the supervisor who i sit next to. who often arrives at work after me.

On Wednesday: I discover that there's a card i have to swipe as i enter workplace. so my presence is registered. discover this *only* because i ask a colleage what they are doing swiping their card for a door that is already open.
Someone might have thought to explain when I started work.

In keeping with my supervisor to not register the discrepancy between: (A) the actual prescence of me, in person, at the desk next to her when she comes into work in the morning <-AND-> (B) what the machine told her.

(A) proves (B) is wrong.
*But* because (B) = machine info: Trust (B).

I wonder how many days off it says I have. I wonder how many bonus points the machine gives me for all the unpaid overtime.

MOURNING GLORY

Rumours of the aboutnow ten year anniversary reunion and/or reissue remaster activity of old band THE PADRES have been greatly exaggerated. By me.

A decade ago was the day the lipstick-applying grrl-covered, five-or-six track, Peel-played "What's Your Story" CD /cassette / debatably e-bayable item by THE PADRES was launched -- the Saturday day that Kurt Cobain's suicide was the tabloid cover story. There was a shoddy acoustic gig in a dusty Pacific Plaza - which stank thanks to a crap artists impression of artistic expression and had left the remains of dead chickens as part of an instillation in the unit next door. I was not amused. Instigated a dead slow cover of "Territorial Pissings" somewhere but I might have been the only Padre present at the time. Nigel Hogan - a Madre at that time - did join in though. He became a Padre later, after he'd ceased operations with another band: The Mother. Only just realised that might amount to a sex change.

Don't know if Odessey -the defunct record company that put out the Padres EP- considered suing Oasis for their later use of "What's The Story". Perhaps if my "Mourning Glory" backing vocals were kept...