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Story of my life...
Jul. 7th, 2008 07:56 pm... in the form of a conversation between me and the nurse taking my blood last night in the Clinical Research Unit of Thomas Jefferson University:
Nurse: "You sure do bleed quickly! It's nice!"
Yoni: "Yup, it's what I'm good at."
Nurse: "I'll say! It's practically jumping into the tube!"
Yoni: "Unfortunately, the only job I can get paid to bleed... well, you're looking at it."
::cue uncomfortable laughter::
And I'm barely even getting paid for it right now. I was an alternate for that study and they didn't need me and now I'm back home. Still, $100 for a couple vials of blood, eating dinner and a snack, watching two hours of TV, and a few hours of fitful sleep... I'll take it!
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In other "I'm broke and I don't want to work at McDonalds" news, tomorrow afternoon I'm getting paid $60 for a 45 minute interview about something or another that I know very little about. Thankfully, I'm a good bullshitter and I love a challenge. It should be amusing.
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My latest goal involves getting an internship at either the Philadelphia Weekly or the City Paper. That and/or getting some of my travel stories published somewhere. I'm a better writer than most of the crap that I see in the papers. Also, I'm more clever in a less obnoxious way. Well, that might not be the case, but at least I own up to my ego, right? Right!
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A secondary goal involves setting up a screening of Slingshot Hip Hop here in Philly. I e-mailed the folks a week or so ago and never heard from them. I want this to be a benefit for the group that I stand with every week in front of the Israeli consulate and thus I'm a bit wary of talking to anyone else about getting a copy of the movie, despite the fact that I know that there are people with far better connections than me. It'll all work itself out, I'm not too worried.
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A third goal involves learning Arabic and getting a job working with new immigrants.
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Computer Grandma from Japan!
Nurse: "You sure do bleed quickly! It's nice!"
Yoni: "Yup, it's what I'm good at."
Nurse: "I'll say! It's practically jumping into the tube!"
Yoni: "Unfortunately, the only job I can get paid to bleed... well, you're looking at it."
::cue uncomfortable laughter::
And I'm barely even getting paid for it right now. I was an alternate for that study and they didn't need me and now I'm back home. Still, $100 for a couple vials of blood, eating dinner and a snack, watching two hours of TV, and a few hours of fitful sleep... I'll take it!
---
In other "I'm broke and I don't want to work at McDonalds" news, tomorrow afternoon I'm getting paid $60 for a 45 minute interview about something or another that I know very little about. Thankfully, I'm a good bullshitter and I love a challenge. It should be amusing.
---
My latest goal involves getting an internship at either the Philadelphia Weekly or the City Paper. That and/or getting some of my travel stories published somewhere. I'm a better writer than most of the crap that I see in the papers. Also, I'm more clever in a less obnoxious way. Well, that might not be the case, but at least I own up to my ego, right? Right!
---
A secondary goal involves setting up a screening of Slingshot Hip Hop here in Philly. I e-mailed the folks a week or so ago and never heard from them. I want this to be a benefit for the group that I stand with every week in front of the Israeli consulate and thus I'm a bit wary of talking to anyone else about getting a copy of the movie, despite the fact that I know that there are people with far better connections than me. It'll all work itself out, I'm not too worried.
---
A third goal involves learning Arabic and getting a job working with new immigrants.
---
Computer Grandma from Japan!
