Last night I was looking at classifieds and I saw one with the *perfect* job for me: 'operator of control chair at an Ancient outpost'. I even called the number and set up an interview, and I was going to try to get the rest of the team to apply too so we could stick together, but when I sat down to lunch Ronon was all excited that he'd finally gotten his dream job - he'd been hired as an accountant! - and he was going and on about bookkeeping methods, so I kept my mouth shut. Then my alarm went off and I remembered that I was *not*, in fact, John Sheppard.

*sigh* I suppose that means I should spend today getting really serious about a job search. Even if there's no way I'll find something as cool as that.

ETA: Whoa, I did find one as cool as that! If it was only paid, it'd be perfect! (And if I only had a resume, alas.)

(And then Mom came in and told me that during that lovely rainstorm last night I'd left the sunroof open on the car, so I went out to dry it, and when I put in the keys to open the windows, "Hotel California" was on the radio, and now I desperately, desperately want to vid that to Michael...)

This weekend, I need to write an essay for my Latin America class, on some topic related to changes in Latin American life as a result of the coming of Europeans, and then make a judgement as to whether those changes were beneficial or not.

My teacher in that class is an authentic Latin American doctoral student (from I believe Bolivia, although the fact that he shares his name with a Harry Potter 'ship makes him rather hard to google.) He is also a soccer fanatic, who has been publically counting down the days until the World Cup starts.

As for me, I don't even know the difference between a red card and a penalty box. However, I *do* happen to think that Hunahpu and Xbalenque are the awesomest ball-playing twins who ever shot out a macaw's false teeth.*

So now I'm thinking about ignoring all the actual important issues, and writing this paper on the decline of the Mesoamerican ball game (ulama/tlachtli/pokolpok) and the concomitant rise of European sports, particularly soccer.

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*also, apparently, by way of incestuous genderswitch mpreg, parents of the entire human race. How did I not know that before?

ETA: Somebody, make me stop reading Word Cup coverage before I start to actually care! Please!