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Courtesy of MetaFilter: The Best Job In The World.

Perks of the job:

• Get paid AUD$150,000 (approx. USD $102,000)
• Live without any housing costs for six months in a three-bedroom two-bathroom villa on the most developed island in the Great Barrier Reef

Requirements:

• “Explore the islands of the Great Barrier Reef
• “Discover what the area has to offer”
• “Report back on your adventures to Tourism Queensland headquarters in Brisbane (and the rest of the world) via weekly blogs, photo diary, video updates and ongoing media interviews”
• Feed the fish that live in and around the Reef (if you like)
• Clean the automatically filtered pool
• Collect the mail (or help deliver it by plane for a day)

Submit video applications before February 22nd.

A funny comment from the MetaFilter post:

It’s all fun and games until the snapping turtles attack.

Also, is it just me or does this whole thing sound like the set-up for an old Scooby Doo episode?

“Gee, Daphne, we sure are lucky your dear Uncle Walter invited us to stay on his island resort for six months. If it weren’t for all the rumors about that spooky Witch Doctor, this would be just perfect!”

“Rooky ritch roctor?” *whimper*

“Like, don’t worry, Scoob, there’s nothing to those silly old stories.”

“Right! They’re just a load of superstitious island mumbo-jumbo. Now let’s to take a look at that abandoned fishing village!”

Little do they know that someone is watching them through the eyeholes of a nearby portrait! *SCARY STOCK MUSIC*

It just stopped snowing again… but it’s supposed to start again tomorrow night.

Forecast for Wednesday (when I supposedly fly out to Seattle):

Snow. Blowing snow in the afternoon. Several inches of accumulation possible. Highs 12 to 16. Wind chills as low as 10 below to 20 below zero.

Googling yourself can lead to some weird findings.

Apparently, I am a cat.

My hair still looks the same.

Does anyone reading this know how to skin TinyMCE really, really well?

If so, please contact me. It’s urgent, and you’ll be paid.

Tired.

Too much work.

I need to build up an archive of “real” posts to use in this situation…

Seven days of straight blogging! Woo-hoo!

This is another “no time to actually post an entry of true substance” day. I technically started my day by taking Andrew to the urgent care center at 7:45 AM, where the lab results confirmed what we suspected: he has strep throat. I say “technically started the day” because I went to bed at 4:30 AM. After taking my sick boy home, I worked at H&R Block from 9 AM to 3 PM, then came home and read textbook chapters all evening and watched a lecture. I still need to work some more on the big freelance project, spend time with my husband without getting sick, and then, you know, sleep or something.

I’m mentally working on a “knitting manifesto” about my plans and goals for the new year in my major hobby. Maybe it’ll be complete in a day or two… or three. Maybe it’ll even have photos!

Maybe.

On the twelfth day of Christmas, my task list showed to me:

12 hooks to be hung on our new pot rack

11 loads of laundry

10 items to take to Goodwill

9 knitting projects in progress

8 days until I fly out to Seattle to visit Sarah for a week

7 thank-you cards to write

6 possible names to choose from for our new Roomba

5 people to e-mail at Penn about my bachelor’s degree (again)

4 days before the latest (and last) deadline for the big freelance project

3 choir songs to add downloads and/or lyrics to

2 publications to order from the IRS now that tax season is here

and 1 successfully activated DePaul University student ID.

One bad thing about posting a blog entry every day: some days, you just don’t feel like talking writing.