This post has nothing to do with the title. So suck it,

It's that time of year again. My birthday. I'd like to say thanks to those who have wished me a happy birthday either through facebook or when they met me. Overall it's not been such a bad day, spent most of it giving my heart and soul to a black hole called "cover letters", more on that a bit later on. What I'm most surprised about is how many people knew it was my birthday and that have actually took the time to say happy birthday to me. I don't consider myself important but I have lots of friends, but the amount of people that have come up to me and said "happy birthday" has been utterly overwhelming. I'm moved, really. So I'd like to dedicate this post to those kind people, cheers everyone!

Now, on to the matter of the dark mistress known as an internship. Oh lordy, where should I begin? Well, let's begin at the beginning since I can't start anywhere else but also end at the beginning because I've yet to get anywhere. I'm tired, so if you want this post to make sense, f*** you. The actual application form isn't at all bad. You fill in your details, education, skills, work experience etc. That kind of stuff takes about 15 minutes tops for each place I'm applying to (think investment banks). Then comes those evil little things called open ended questions. Here's a little taster:

"Why do you want to work for [name removed], why that department and what skills you can bring to our organisation. [300 words]"

That's about the general sort of stuff you get. OK, not so bad, all you have to do is write something down that will look good to the employer. But then I hear that the HR department only takes 10 seconds to GLANCE at the statements and CVs. Students have poured their hearts and souls into these letters, well okay it's bullshit, but it's bullshit from our hearts and souls and all you do is take a glance at it, tell whether it's in the right format and then say or, god forbid, think yes or no. At least take 3 minute to read through some of the entire application. If you work for 8 hours a day, minus a 30 minute break for lunch, 2 x 15 minutes for smoking breaks (don't do this at home kids) and a 1 minute break once every 3 minutes, you can go through 93.333 applications in a single working day. I don't want any excuses saying that you have other things to do, your HR department is huge and your only job is to process/read these applications and to approve or disapprove (is that the right word here?) them. But then, these applications don't all come through at once, do they? They come through in a trickle at the start and then more and more. If you done your job right, this shouldn't be a problem for you, right? Forget it, I think this might just piss off some HR people if they read it. If you gotten this far without being so utterly disgusted and decided to start a satanic hate group against me, write a comment about how you're about to start a satanic hate group against me.

On the anime front, ladies and gentlemen, the London Expo is coming around again. My first time and hopefully not the last time. I'll keep you guys notified about it in my next post. As for the anime itself, Manabi Straight. Okay, I've honestly have had thoughts about someone coming into my room and seeing me watch this show and thinking I'm a paedophile. THEY ARE HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS. Blame the flipping animators making them look like bug-eyed midgets on crack. The plot revolves around one girl, Mikan Inamori, basically the only member of the school council. Due to falling birthrates and a failing economy, the Japanese children have been given the right to drop out of school after middle school to find work. Because of this, attendance at schools have been at an all time low and thus affecting the school council of Seioh High School, where Mikan is at. Then this energetic girl, Manami Amamiya, transfers in from another school, takes over as president of the council and decides to make everything more "fun". By now, it's beginning to sound like Haruhi, but it's not. As a show, it's OK, but it takes things a little bit too seriously. The lead characters are shown to be normal school girls with problems (no big surprises there) while the lead character was supposed to be Manami, or MANABI as she likes to be called, was suddenly switched to Mikan about halfway through. Overall, it's an okay show. Not something to watch with all-male friends, but something light-hearted to show to your sweetheart.

So there's the update and my moanings and groanings for this week. I'll be back later to slap you over the LAN.