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i think the sign is there for a reason
The funniest thing I saw today was a person standing outside of the services Canada building, underneath the no smoking sign lighting up a cancer stick. It just hit me; this is the building that the people of Cambridge go to find jobs, apply for employment insurance, retirement information etc. and now we have a person who seeming can't read the sign, or simply doesn't care. It just boggles my mind. Now, to be fair she very well might be an employee of one of the many institutions in the building but then should she not be more aware of the signs? In this case, she simply doesn't care. I don't really know where to go with this now, as I don't really know how to find the right words to express the shock I had upon seeing this.

They weren't kidding when they said that looking for work is a full time job in itself, especially when your field doesn't seem to be hiring entry level positions. FRUSTRATING!!! I am glad that I was smart enough to be thrifty while I was working, and as such I am not broke; not rich, but not broke and should be able to hang in there for a while.

This past weekend was a really good one. Jay slept over Friday night and we were able to spend most of Saturday together as well. after an unsuccessful attempt at seeing 'the queen' on Friday night we went out for dinner with the Guitard clan to king's buffet (yum) then headed back to Cambridge so I could drop my baby bro off at his friend's house. We took Kaya for a walk (with jay actually walking the new puppy!) and when we got home jay had a workout while I cleaned up a bit for my parents' return from Germany on Saturday. We watched a couple episodes of 'arrested development', hung out chatting for a bit then hit the sack (there were some 'extra curricular' activities in there as I’m sure you can imagine:) Saturday we got to visit with our very own Kalin, after which we headed back to Guelph to see 'the queen', this time we successfully got in. Aside from jay's various geriatric comments, the movie was actually really, really good! I went with the jay b/c he needed to watch it for school, and figured it would be mediocre at best; I went to keep Jay company more or less. I was pleasantly surprised with the quality and the film as well as the captivating story line. I recommend it! It was great! While we were watching it from a PR perspective, the English geek in me couldn't help but emerge to take in all the allusion and metaphors (very obvious at some points, which is fine) that were present. There was one scene particularly powerful; during the story, prince Philip was constantly taking Prince Harry and Prince William out to stalk a 14 point buck (a rare deer specimen of highest quality which hadn't been seen in the country for many, many years). This is one of the allusion to Princess Diana, as she was considered extremely beautiful and rare, the 'people's princess'. earlier in the story, the Queen gets her 4x4 stuck in the river while trying to catch up to ht hunting party; while stuck in the river waiting for help, she begins to cry and the buck appears. She is amazed by the animal, saying 'you really ARE a beauty'. A few moment's later, she here's gun shots and hounds; clearly frightened that the buck will be shot, she shoos it away (bad form to interrupt a hunting party), but the buck runs off and all seems to be well. Later in the film, news comes that the buck was caught on a neighbouring estate and was shot by a commercial resident (Dianna was killed in France). The Queen goes over to the estate, to see the dead buck. In the killing room, we see the buck hanging upside down with his head cut off, blood dripping into the drain in the floor. The owner of the estate comments 'isn't he a beauty. The Queen looks to the counter where the bucks head is sitting; there is bullet wound in his cheek. noticing this, the Queen comments 'he was wounded'; the owner then comment that they had to follow him for (now I can't remember the exact distance, but I believe it was a half mile) before they could get another shot in to bring him down. The important part here is that they had to follow the buck for the same distance that the paparazzi followed Diana on the night of her death, from her leaving the dinner with Dodi, to the point of her crash. After a moment of silence, the Queen says 'let's hope he didn't suffer too much' (Diana did not die on impact, she later died in a French hospital). While I found it to be a fairly obvious allusion to Diana's last few hours of life, I know it was not so obvious to others. However obvious it was or wasn't, it was a beautiful moment that allowed the Queen to appear remorseful of the death of her ex-daughter-in-law. By the prince's not being able to bring the buck down themselves, it also brings to light that they were nowhere near their mother, or even aware of the perilous situation she was in on the night of her death.

Sorry, the English geek in me needed to get that out :)