it's a dell

Hey yellow there, i'm not very good with updating this blog at the moment, nor am i with writing emails actually. I think i'm going through one of those out-of-it phases when days just seem to fly by and I don't have time to realise what is happening in the mean time, crazay stuff!!!
Anyway, I don't believe I have written about last saturday yet and well, it deserves an entry in the free-money-for-nothing category of casual jobs, not that i know of any others mind you...
So yeah, last saturday, Caz, nikki and myself were paid to be extras in an american ad for dell so we won't get to see it here but we will always remember those great times at the Seymous centre in Sydney.
We got there around 12:30 only to realise that it wasn't the intimate experience we were hoping for and joined what seemed to be the never-ending line of random extras. It turns out that there was 500 of us there, all being paid to do nothing... sweeto.
We went through the process of waiting in line, a wardrobe check, and a portrait of us holding up our names loud and clear.
After that, we got a feel of the real life and sat around for about 4 hours... on wannabee mies van der rohe couches please.
We had to wait until our batch of extras was needed for the shoot, so around 4 o'clock we went into the "studio" which was set up as a fake talk show, david letterman style, but this one was called the something something power hour (can't believe i forgot already, must have been the emotion). Our role was to be part of a fake audience so we chearfully contributed our clapping and chearing abilities to this worthy cause and in 1 1/2 hours or 2, we were out of there. No need to say that our little trio wasn't even close to the field of vision of the camera.... Oh well, celebrity and glamour will have to wait a bit longer....
By 6 o'clock, we had our bags and jackets and were ready to go home. So just to recap the facts, we were there for 6 hours, sat around for 4, clapped for 2 and we're getting paid for 8 hours (that is, if it ever happens because that's a whole new story that won't make it into the blog, not yet anyway) and about $21 an hour.... if you take the invaluable time to do the math on this one, it's about $150 after tax to do .... NOTHING!!! isn't it awesome!!! well, some might argue that the time spent being genuinely bored shall never come back, but i believe i can live with that idea. I don't think i will turn that into a carreer but that must only be personal because there were some pretty old folks there too, not just desperate-to-do-nothing uni students... all in all, it was a pretty fun experience and shall be considered for future plans... maybe... definitely if i never get a life, which is more than likely from my present perspective...
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