Did you look at any Canadian jobs during the weekend? If you land on up here you can take lots of time off due to the great unions which are around here, get free healthcare, and sprinkle free medication on the homeless! It's a dream, I tells ya.

I knooow, I do provoke Totoro, but it's hard to resist. She gets so bizarrely angry and can't express her frustration properly! It's adorable.

See I think most designers will do custom shoes if you're in the know, but otherwise it's hard to arrange it. I've never heard of cordwainers, I will look into them.

They never did get back to me. It's BUGGING me! One way or the other I want to know! I can take not being hired, my current job is great, but it'd be nice to have some closure. I haven't called them because I imagine the process is complicated, what with having to confer back and forth with the people in Qatar (H.R. is in Canada, so there are logistical problems to take into consideration),

I know I don't need a house, but at one point I want to have a wife and kids, and I'd just feel better if I were able to provide a house for them. Maybe it's the one manly thing about me