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williamjmAfter the delays of the journey up to Scotland last weekend I'm quite glad that today's return journey back to Cambridge was actually on time all the way - which means it only took 7 and a half hours. Back to work tomorrow and most of the next three days is going to be constant meetings/presentations so I'm expecting to be desperately wanting to be back on holiday again by about 9:15 tomorrow morning.
Yesterday I spent the day in Edinburgh. I met up with Alex and Dan (two friends from University). We went to the cinema and saw Pineapple Express (there wasn't a huge amount of choice), it was reasonably amusing although it's one of those films I'll probably have completely forgotten about a few days after I saw it. Missed most of the trailers, but did see a trailer for Death Race and I feel I have to point out that judging from the trailer they've completely failed to remake Death Race 2000 and have instead remade The Running Man with added cars.
I found out Dan has an impressive part-time job. There are a few companies in Edinburgh who run Ghost Tours around the Old Town in Edinburgh, the tours finishing with a visit to an underground street abandoned a couple of centuries ago where the tour guide will tell various cheesy ghost stories and then switch off their torch, whereupon someone will jump out of the darkness and yell at the tour party. Dan's job is to be the jumper at the end of the tours. Basically his job consists of sitting around reading books in the tour company office most of the time and every hour so jumping out and screaming at a group of tourists and for that he gets paid £6 per jump. It probably really stands out on a CV, although unfortunately he reports that the career prospects in the jumping-out-at-people industry are limited.
Yesterday I spent the day in Edinburgh. I met up with Alex and Dan (two friends from University). We went to the cinema and saw Pineapple Express (there wasn't a huge amount of choice), it was reasonably amusing although it's one of those films I'll probably have completely forgotten about a few days after I saw it. Missed most of the trailers, but did see a trailer for Death Race and I feel I have to point out that judging from the trailer they've completely failed to remake Death Race 2000 and have instead remade The Running Man with added cars.
I found out Dan has an impressive part-time job. There are a few companies in Edinburgh who run Ghost Tours around the Old Town in Edinburgh, the tours finishing with a visit to an underground street abandoned a couple of centuries ago where the tour guide will tell various cheesy ghost stories and then switch off their torch, whereupon someone will jump out of the darkness and yell at the tour party. Dan's job is to be the jumper at the end of the tours. Basically his job consists of sitting around reading books in the tour company office most of the time and every hour so jumping out and screaming at a group of tourists and for that he gets paid £6 per jump. It probably really stands out on a CV, although unfortunately he reports that the career prospects in the jumping-out-at-people industry are limited.
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Date: 2008-09-15 11:49 pm (UTC)Your description of Death Race is probably dead on. I still want to see it purely for the mindless entertainment value. That, plus Ian McShane.
I can think of worse jobs than those that allow me to read and have to stand up once an hour. Presumably the benefits are non-existent, however.
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Date: 2008-09-16 07:23 am (UTC)I was just about the say that! Prolly wait for dvd though.
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Date: 2008-09-16 08:20 pm (UTC)I suspect the jumping-out job probably gets a bit dull after the novelty wears off, and apparently all the yelling at tourists does lead to lots of sore throats.