A New Hope

Things have been looking up the past few days, having survived the plague and finally found a good hostel in Brisbane. If your ever backpacking around these parts I recommend Brisbane Palace Backpackers its a really nice place. For the first time since I arrived I unpacked and it felt good, my mind breathed a sigh of relief that if had found somewhere that it felt comfortable to call home for the next few weeks.

Yesterday I talked to Claire on the phone for a while. Shes been lucky enough to find her dream guy complete with cottage, white picket fence and his own horse. She seemed very happy and almost ready to settle down. I'm happy for her and wish her all the best. I'm starting to wonder just how many amazing women I was going to let slip through my fingers - I'm estimating at least another couple ;o) . As much as I have enjoyed my perpetual search I was starting to feel starting to feel the loss as another of my X's settles down/gets married with someone else.

I had a job interview today with a young and very big profit making company wotif.com they seemed like a really good bunch of guys. The had a sense of humour and where very smart. I loved that their stock symbol was WTF! I had a phone interview yesterday with them and they where bringing me in today for the real one. It looked like it would be a really good job, the recruitment consultant was going crazy that I had managed to get an interview with them, saying things like they are very picky about who they employ so be careful what you say. The interview went very smoothly here's my favourite extract:

'So we noticed on your CV that the last time you worked was over a year ago, what have you been doing?'

'Nothing'

'So what have you been doing to keep your IT Skills up to scratch?'

'Nothing'

There we go, with two perfectly congruent and amazingly honest answers I had just explained the year gap in my job history to the panels satisfaction.

Later that day they asked me back for a second and final interview tomorrow, I explained that I couldn't make it as I was going to the Zoo tomorrow so we scheduled it for Thursday afternoon instead.

After the interview I had a shopping trip come date with Lauren, not wanting to be late I turned up in my suit and jokingly scorned her for turning up somewhat under dressed. One of the best things about my hostel is that It's only one block from the center of town so I could quickly pop back after we meet and slip into something more comfortable.

The shopping, then drinks, then lunch, then drinks, then dinner then more drinks with Lauren was very enjoyable. We found two great pubs that actually sold nice tasting beer! One was a micro brewery place and the other specialized in Belgian beer It was so nice not to be drinking XXXX or Victoria Bitter for a change. Near the end of the evening talk turned to whose place we should head to. Since I had my room all to myself it was the natural choice. Things where starting to get interesting when ...well ... here's a sentence that I never thought I would say:

'Unfortunately that's the moment when three Swedish girls decided to move into my room'



Sadly that's where all similarities with porn films ended rather abruptly. Shame :o(

It's been pointed out to me by Gabe that as this trip is a social experiment that I shouldn't be showing the people I interacted with in Australia this blog as I would corrupting the experiment. I work on the idea that you should just tell everyone possible the truth, but showing people a blog containing entries about them and some of my recent explots was proving increasingly unpopular with the ladies.

So in a debate between scientific method and ethics I have picked this compromise, I will reveal the blog to them in it entirety but only after my interaction with them has come to an end. This seems a good balance.

Just think of the blogortunities!