Finally

Ok, here we go....for those who don't know, here's what I'm up to these days:

I've found a job through another temp company, and have been doing work in the finance department for a big Canadian food supplier. It really is my ideal work for the moment, which is to say, maximum payment for minimal responsibility. The duties of my job pretty much consist of me sitting in front of a computer and punching numbers into an excel spreadsheet all day long. I have little interaction with others, and can listen to my MP3 player all day, enjoying music, podcasts, audio books or whatever tickles my fancy. It pays pretty well, and my supervisor(s) are really nice to boot. As I've said to folks before, if I had to do this for the rest of my life then I would probably rather kill myself as it is extremely monotonous work and really does very little to make the world a better place, however currently, as a means to greater ends it does the trick just fine. Yes, it takes up a lot of time, I have to get up early and I still come home tired after work, but it beats the coffee shop job, where I would be there til 9pm sometimes, sweaty from having to mop up, and run down from people complaining about too little or too much milk in their tea.

Hopefully this will see me through until the end of April, when I plan on attending Coachella. The big reason for the trip there is, of course, the Rage Against the Machine reunion. I absolutely love Rage and thought I would never get a chance to see them after they broke up in 2000. So far it is being billed as a 'one-off' performance by them, but I've read interviews with Tom Morello who says he hasn't "ruled out the possibility of future activities" for the band. So even though it's likely there will be more shows in the future, you never know. However, Rage isn't my only reason for going...the other two headliners (The Chili Peppers and Björk) are also performers whom I love but have never seen live. And that's in addition to the 100 or so other bands that will be there. There's a bunch in that list that I am big fans of as well, so combined with a trip to southern California at the end of April, it didn't seem like such a bad idea. To top it off, I found out a couple days ago that my buddy Ryan and his wife are planning on going too, so I'll have folks to camp out with! Score.

Well that's about it really. Sorry if I got your hopes up for something huge. I'm supposed to find out in May whether or not I got into the program at the University of Oslo, and so I should have a better idea of my next move after that. Until then, it's simply work followed by Coachella....