Tosh. O/ job search/ Mike Wood

Jul. 1 Tosh.O: I was annoyed that the show isn't on tonight, but then I went on Youtube, and they put up the latest ep. Here's the first 9 min. of the show. There is a guy who put the movie The Love Guru illegally on the internet, and he is in prison for 6 months. They said that if it wasn't up on the internet, the movie would have made more money. 85, 000 downloads.

D: Even this chipmunk video got 14 million views. 20 are from me. The point, people will watch crap as long as it's free. Well not everybody, I was in The Love Guru, and I still haven't seen it.

Then they showed a clip of it where D is wearing a cowboy hat and a plaid shirt.
D: Looks like I have to shove these love beads someplace special.

Cut back to the show.
The audience cheers.
D: Holy cow, someone's got range.
lol.

Job search: Daniel totally cheered me up. Earlier I was feeling down. Last night at the River Cree Casino, Silvia asked me a good question.

Silvia: So have you got a call back about that call centre job?
Me: No, I haven't. Actually come to think of it, no one has ever called me back since I've been applying for jobs since January of this year.

I then went through the list of all the places I have passed my resumes to. Banks, hair salons, office buildings, call centres, magazines like Avenue. I have applied to a lot of banks at multiple locations. That's how I got that last bank job. My friend Michelle followed my advice, and she got a bank job to that pays $18/ hr. I then counted all the places on the list, and I have passed out 94 resumes in 6 months.

I probably passed the same amount of resumes last year in 2008 after I finished school. Well I passed them out to what my dad calls "garbage jobs" like stores at the mall. I thought this 2009 job search was better because I wasn't looking for a garbage job. I was going for the banks and administrative jobs. I didn't pass any to retail stores. I also passed out the revised resume that my friend Angela edited.

Writing: I also passed out some resumes to TV production companies when I was pitching my script. I may not have call backs from jobs, but I do get emails from TV productions companies regarding my script so that's good.

Crazy news: I was watching Tyra today because it falls into one of my two categories for watching this show, teen pregnancy and prostitution. It was about prostitution. This 22 yr old woman is going to auction off her virginity for something like $1 million. It's so that Natalie can pay to do her master's degree.

Her sister Avia was a prostitute for 3 weeks at the Moonlight Bunny Ranch in Nevada. There is a show called Cathouse on HBO which is a reality show about working there. Avia only worked there so she could make a lot of money really fast because their stepdad stole their money. Fortunately, he was prosecuted.

Tyra did give a final word to the audience that you shouldn't do something you're not comfortable with. Sheesh, I'm 23 and I wouldn't auction off my virginity. Sure, Natalie does her background checks like criminal checks and get to know the guys before she decides. I still find this uncomfortable. I was kind of cringing throughout the show.

Tyra did say her show was for 18- 34 yr old women, but she knows that there are 12, 13, 14 yr old girls watching so it was good that she told them they shouldn't do that. Natalie argued it was her choice to do what with her body. She did 2 unbiased lie- detector tests and she passed proving she is a virgin. She is willing to do a physical body exam too.

Jul. 2 The Listener: I saw the show today. It was interesting, though it's kind of been done before. The ep is where Toby finds a homeless boy named Daniel, and he tries to help him. He resists his help. Then later it's revealed that Daniel had killed a girl named Lisa Greyson. Toby does a lot of investigating.

Then they find Lisa's mother, and she meets Daniel The big reveal is that Daniel is Lisa. He didn't want to be a girl anymore, and his mom wanted her to stay as a girl. I saw this on Veronica Mars. A kid wants to find his dad, and then Veronica finds out that the dad has become a woman.

Lookalike: Oh look, I found another lookalike. There is this twenty- something year old white guy who comes in the restaurant a few times. I was handling his cash, and then I decided to go and tell him who he looks like.

Me: Do you know who you look like?
Guy: No, who?
Me: Kyle Gallagher.
Guy: Oh really? That's a new one. A lot of people tell me I look like the guy from those Dell commercials.
I got a quick flash of one of those commercials.
Me: Oh yeah.
Guy: Well have a nice day.

I don't know if he really knew who I was talking about. Kyle Gallagher was on Veronica Mars and he played Beaver. He was on Red Eye as one of those teenagers on the plane.

Coincidence: Now I noticed a coincidence of an actor from Veronica Mars, and a storyline from The Listener is also like the one on the show.

Jul. 3 Mike Wood: I was at the Edmonton Street Performer's Festival and ended up watching this guy Mike Wood perform. He had a girl from the audience be his assistant.

M: I would like an assistant. She has to be female, 18- 35 years old, single, with her own apartment.
Well I did fit the criteria, except I live with my parents. lol.
He says he has a degree in engineering from the University of Toronto. He is to has the girl Tyra pull on this catapult he created and it will throw the cabbage into the air, and he will catch it with his football helmet that has spikes on it.

He did catch the cabbage. We were to donate $5 to his show, at the end of it I gave him $3.62 because that's all the change I had. It's better than nothing.

Me: Excuse me, but do you have a website?
M: Yeah, www.mikewood.ca.

I checked it out. He looks quite different from the photos.

News: I went to City Centre mall and I saw that the Sunglasses Hut permanently closed down since June 29. You can still go to West Ed mall and Kingsway mall for that store. I saw a sign that said it. Culture Craze closed down too. Throw in Art of Style that closed down. It sold paintings, supposedly for charities. Maybe it's supposed to be only open temporarily. Four Rooms restaurant closed down.

I read in the Journal that there was this McDonald's building in Abbotsfield that closed down last November. Someone had recently started a fire in a dumpster, and then it burned down the building. Well at least no one was hurt because nobody was even in there.

Kingsway: I went to Kingsway today and it looks like Garage finally renovated their store to make themselves look the other stores in their chain. There was a lot of renovations that were done and they moved Coles and Shoppers Drug Mart around. The mall looks great. There is still more construction, but it did look better than the last time I was there which was last year.

Overdose: I had 3 days off this week which is the most I ever had since I started working last year. I overdosed on daytime TV. I probably watched 2.5 hrs of it this week. I saw some Tyra today about how to pick up guys. Have a wing- woman with you to talk you up as how cool you are. I saw a Oprah ep where Tyra guest- stars and they discuss abusive relationships. Throw in some Young and the Restless.

It could be worse, I remember the days of 2006 when I was addicted to Dr. Phil and saw 5 hrs of that show every week. I also overdosed on shopping. I went to Bonnie Doon the other day and I haven't been there in a year. Did you know that there is a store called Hype there? It's like Soular at West Ed where they sell hip- hop clothes.

Good news: There is this one producer who finished reading the script, and he said he's coming to Edmonton next week. He wants to discuss my script with him. Now it has just sunk in, that I am going to meet up with a producer in person for the first time to get my script produced.