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Tuesday 5 July 2005 - Career moves, Music and UltimateWell, as some of you know I started my new job last Monday...and I quit on Wednesday. Turned out it just wasn't such a good fit for me. But no worries, I landed on my feet and landed another job on Thursday of last week and started yesterday. It's for less money, but I think it will be a lot more fun. And if this one doesn't work out, we know I can always find another one. This particular one is working in a tanning salon, job benefits = free tanning. Plus there's a young and fun staff to work with. Unfortunately this week I won't be up to full time yet, because they have to do some rearranging to get my training in and the training manager is out for a couple of days, but hopefully next week I can be in there full time and finally make some money. I did get paid for the hours I put into my job last week, so there's a start and I already paid July rent so I don't need to worry abou rent again for another 26 days. This past weekend was awesome! I had free tickets to a couple of outdoor concerts that I got through some friends here. On Friday night we went to the B-live concert. One of the girls I used to live with got free tickets through her job for Friday night. When we first got there it was all rainy and drizzyly, but once the weather cleared up, it turned out pretty nice. It was kind of a latin thing, so they played some really high energy salsa type music and there were different performances of latin dancers. Plus I was able to just hang out with friends. Saturday was the really great day though. My friend, Anik, got us tickets to the Live 8 concert in Hyde Park. We were actually outside of the actual concert (but free tickets) watching on big screens. I don't know if any of you heard about it at home, but they were doing big concerts all around the work to influence the G-8 summit to do something about poverty in Africa. One of the biggest (arguably the biggest) was here in London in Hyde Park. Amazing acts. I saw Madonna, Elton John, Paul McCartney, Robbie Williams, Pink Floyd (playing together for the first time in 24 years!), Mariah Carey, U2, Cold Play, REM, Dido, Travis, Annie Lennox, the Who, Snoop Dogg, Sting, and more including some bands that I think are just more popular in Britain that I've never heard of. Anyway, what a great day of music. On Sunday I went to ultimate frisbee practice. I was literally the only girl. I also didn't realize how out of shape I was (or how much more men run) because my whole body is sore. That's good though, because it means I worked hard. I just wish there was practice more than once a week because I think just practicing hard one time a week won't really help me to improve that much or get in shape. Maybe I should start running...but I probably won't, let's be honest. 5:58 AM - 7/5/2005 - post comment
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