Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/07/2003 09:40 AM PST

I delivered papers for 2 weeks...I now know that I am not a morning person...at all.

And I too had a wake-up call you could have had, it was at 7, however, and EST, so I doubt you would have wanted it anyway.

Posted by Sarah @ 07/07/2003 09:42 AM PST

Worst job that I had was when I was a teenager and worked at Breslers 33 Flavors in Medford Oregon for one day. This was my first real job. I had about 5 minutes of training from the manager (at least she said she was the manager) and her assistant. Then they both went into the back room and for the next 4 hours I did not see them again. This was a Saturday and the place was swamped! I messed up every order, gave people way too much ice cream or the wrong flavors. It was a miserable experience! I was not asked back after my first day of "training" and I was glad...I didn't even get paid!

Next worst job was working in a retail establishment called Bi-Mart (only the Northwesterners will likely know of this chain store). Worked there for 13 years. The first several years were fun...but later I grew tired of the cranky customers and I myself was turning into a cranky clerk (and I hate those), and it was on the bad side of town. The last 3 years were spent working in the Bi-Mart pharmacy... "Good morning, Bi-Mart Lancaster Pharmacy, how may I help you." That was even worse then working in the other parts of the store (and in those 13 years I eventually worked in every department)...the customers were sick and cranky and after I had one guy pull a rifle on me I decided to get a nice safe job with the Oregon Judicial department. Have been fairly content ever since!

Posted by MBarnum @ 07/07/2003 09:58 AM PST

BK, maybe you should get an alarm clock or look into subscribing to a wake-up service.

Posted by Laura @ 07/07/2003 10:13 AM PST

Far and away, my worst job
was during the summer of
2000, when I worked at a
"family fun center." It was a
day job while I did my summer
stock gig evenings and
weekends. I have less than
fond memories of my time
spent as "bumper boat boy."
At only age 20, I was one of the
oldest on staff (one of my
"supervisors" was 17!!!). It
was a rather hot summer, I
was out there on a poolside
concrete slab, and the sun
umbrella by my chair was far
more functional for the folks on
the other side of the fence than
it was for me. And the
fershluganah bumper boats
themselves... it's simply
incredible how often those
things break down, usually
stranding some unsuspecting
soul in the middle of the pool
(or worse, under the fountain
on one side of the pool) while I
try to get them over to the side
where I could be of any help to
them.

Posted by Jed @ 07/07/2003 10:21 AM PST

So glad to hear that DR
Sandra has another class to
share stories from! If it's even
half as interesting as Career
Exploration, it's sure to keep
us all entertained!

Posted by Jed @ 07/07/2003 10:24 AM PST

I can totally relate to your bad ice cream job, MBarnum. I worked at a Baskin Robbins for about an hour. The training was similar to yours, about 1/2 hours worth. And, of course, it was packed full of people, and I did not know how to make half the things on the menu. Plus, the manager was a real jerk. If he saw that the scoops were too large, he would make you weigh the scoop on the scale (in front of the customer). The scoop ended up being so small (at $1.35 for a single scoop - what a rip off!), the customers would get very irate. Not to mention that I am a short girl, and could barely reach the super frozen ice cream. I had to hear wise cracks like, "Don't they measure your arms before they hire you?" The final straw was when a customer ordered one type of ice cream, watched me hand pack an entire quart of it, then preceded to tell me I packed the wrong flavor. That was all I could take - so I told him to take his quart of ice cream and shove it where the sun don't shine, and I walked out the door. Needless to say, I haven't worked retail since :)

Posted by JB aka JK @ 07/07/2003 10:28 AM PST

BK, you need to subscribe to a new wake-up service, one that is more reliable. This one, for example:

http://www.iping.com/mrwakeup_menu.asp

Try it. You may like it.

Posted by Susan @ 07/07/2003 10:36 AM PST

I'm off to my first day of Communications class. I'll have a full report of all my classmates when I return.

I just explained to my mother that the 2 a.m. "wake-up" call was really an obscene phone call.

Posted by Sandra @ 07/07/2003 10:54 AM PST

I need help please. I have been compiling a list of movies for a sick friend. Please tell me the names of your favorite, great, "feel good" comedies that don't involve death or dying.

Posted by Jane @ 07/07/2003 10:56 AM PST

Worst job... Hmmm...

I'd have to say the most "unpleasant" job was the five week period on my one and only temp job as a data processor. My typing speed has always been good, but I had no idea what true "key speed" was until I got to that office. Some of the employees had amazing "k.p.m." - keystrokes per minute. And, since we were part of a "project", we had certain daily and weekly quotas to meet. We even met once a week with the supervisor to discuss our progress. Luckily, I made my quotas - well, at least the low side of acceptable. What made it so hard to process the applications was that we had to enter data for various international addresses, and the "form" that was on our computer was "built" as generically as possible. Of course, sometimes this meant getting creative with how the various address lines were entered; and then, of course, we would find out that they had just changed the format of how to enter the addresses. -And this would happen weekly... of course.

However, the worst part of this job was that we had to dress in a suit and tie - preferably. I've only ever had one or two suit jackets at one time in my life, so I was able to get away with a nice cardigan every now and then. And we were even evaluated on our business attire during our weekly assessments. Of course, no one in the office had any contact with anyone outside of the office - no public to deal with, and the office was an interior one with no windows! And we had to wear a suit and tie for whom? for what? Thankfully, another gig came along, and that was the end of my one and only temp job.

But my worst job would have had to have been my two months with an amusement park. I took the job as a way to fill my days since I was doing a show at night, and wanted to make some extra cash. I got the job as kind of a fluke, and it really wasn't that bad when I started. Because I worked mainly days, my shifts were never really that busy, and my supervisor was very cool. I was even promoted from "associate" to "assistant manager" after 11 days on the job. Then I was promoted to "manager status"... Then "Park Manager" status which meant I was now a salaried employee as opposed to an hourly one. Consequently, my day job had turned into a day and night job, and during my last weeks on the job, I had one pay period where I worked 72(!) hours. -Of course, since I was now salaried...

Well, enough of that.. Now for some happier thoughts... A Day Off!!

-Sorry for the long post.

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 07/07/2003 11:02 AM PST

Never depend on a wake-up phone call. Get a clock radio or better yet a CD with a timer so you can choose what kind of music to wake up to.

Worst job? It was the first job I had the summer I was 14. My uncle knew the manager of the Brookfield Zoo (a large zoo in a Chicago suburb near where I lived) and arranged for me to get a job. I thought I would be working at a refreshment stand but I was assigned the Pony Rides where I had to walk the kids on the ponys, hold them still for the parents to take pictures, and clean up whenever "my" pony did what came naturally. What an awful eight weeks. I forget the salary but it was very low even for those days. However three months after I returned to school I got a gift certificate to Marshall Field's from the zoo for Christmas. I used it in the book department, and I still have two of the three books I got: Six Plays By Rodgers and Hammerstein and the libretto to My Fair Lady.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 07/07/2003 11:16 AM PST

LOL JB/JK...nice to know I was not alone in my 33 Flavors experience..it must be a chain wide thing! LOL! I forgot about the weighing of the Ice cream scoops...I eventually just scooped and forgot all about the size...!! I just didn't give a rip how big those scoops were after awhile...and since the supervisor had disappeared it didn't matter much.

Posted by MBarnum @ 07/07/2003 11:18 AM PST

I would never sleep if I had to rely on a wake up service. I have a satellite travel alarm clock and Keith has the clock radio with a back up battery incase the power goes out. Our children, who need additional assistance in waking up, set their cell phones. You can still buy those old style alarm clocks, I used as a teenager, with the very loud alarms.

Posted by Jane @ 07/07/2003 11:29 AM PST

Why is it that legends die within such a short space of one another? Buddy Ebsen has passed away....

Worst job? Though the people there were nice enough, it had to have been the telemarketing gig I had for a few months when I was going to school in New York. Even if I was starving and living out of a cardboard box one day, I would still not telemarket.

On the bright side, I have had some pretty cool jobs...I was a singing waitress at one time and a kitchen maid/tour guide in a Victorian mansion at another.

Posted by Maya @ 07/07/2003 11:34 AM PST

I am feeling so much better about my job today! Thanks, everyone!

Jane - PILLOW TALK!

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/07/2003 11:36 AM PST

Well, here I am, posting from
my new job. I'll have more to
say later as soon as we settle
on the money issue. The
money issue is key. Key is the
money issue. Issue the
money is really the key. But, I
have my own nice office, I'll be
going out in the field on
Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday to direct, and hopefully it
will be fun. First days are
always rather annoying and
intimidating, of course. Plus
the computer here is a Mac
and I don't know from Macs
except everything is in the
wrong place on the screen.
That is most unseemly.

Posted by bk @ 07/07/2003 11:40 AM PST

Sandra: The simple act of phoning someone at 2 in the morning is itself obscene.

Jane:

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure
Young Frankenstein (OK, so technically the monster is a reanimated corpse so you may want to skip it; but it's really funny)
Libeled Lady
Just about any Astaire/Rogers collaboration, but especially The Gay Divorcee, Top Hat, Swingtime, and Shall We Dance
Support Your Local Sheriff!
The Goodbye Girl

Hopefully at least one of these will float your friend's boat. :)

Posted by Lulu @ 07/07/2003 11:55 AM PST

OK, scratch Support Your Local Sheriff! - I just remembered it opens with a funeral. A funny funeral, but still...

Posted by Lulu @ 07/07/2003 11:58 AM PST

My worst job was in a corporate department at a rather well-known regional drug store chain. The people there were just plain dull and mean. You could pass someone in the hall, gain eye contact, and then do the normal human being sort of thing and say "Hello" to him or her from about two feet away and that person would just ignore you and keep walking.

The degree of "friendliness" at corporate headquarters was reflected in the stores, so it's no wonder this drug store chain had the awful reputation it did.

Posted by Jay @ 07/07/2003 12:27 PM PST

I'm sure I've pushed away the memory of my worst job, but one of the bad ones was working in an ice cream packaging plant.

Very cold. Put me right off ice cream in the convenient half-gallon size.

On the other hand, I worked an overnight shift, and my ride home in the morning was past a Krispy Kreme store...and YUMMY, hot donuts off the conveyor belt!!!

Posted by Ron Pulliam @ 07/07/2003 12:30 PM PST

Hey BK, so what kind of reality show is this? (me, who is addicted to reality shows).

I couldn't watch the BullShit one, because we don't get that channel in Canada :(

Also, re: the donut discussion yesterday. I rarely eat them, even though i love them. Isn't that weird!

Posted by Jennifer @ 07/07/2003 12:43 PM PST

Jane: great movie to lift your friend's spirits: On the Town. Hands down best movie musical in my book. NYC just looks so lovely and tourist friendly! And hey, they'll get a kick watching Frank Sinatra try to keep up with Gene Kelly in the dance numbers!

Posted by Lori @ 07/07/2003 12:45 PM PST

Thank you Jrand52 and Lulu for your suggestions. I only had "Shall We Dance?" on my list, the 1996 film from Japan. I will include the Gingers-Astaire movie as well. If you haven't seen the 1996 film, I highly recommend it.

Posted by Jane @ 07/07/2003 12:47 PM PST

And as we know BK, Macs make skinny postings on this here site.

Re Buddy Ebsen: I wonder how many of you are aware that even though Mr. Ebsen was replaced as the Tin Man in "Wizard of Oz" his voice is still on the soundtrack. They re-dubbed all the solo lines with Jack Haley, but not the songs when the four characters are singing together, so it's Buddy you hear in "We're Off To See the Wizard" and other numbers.

By the way I'm sure it will be a topic here - my favorite Buddy Ebsen role is as Doc Golightly in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".

And on a completely different topic: Tab Hunter is writing his autobiography. Should be quite a gay tome.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 07/07/2003 12:48 PM PST

Yes "On the Town" is a good movie musical, but think how great it would have been with the complete original Bernstein score. If movie versions of Broadway shows are really coming back, then both "On the Town" and "Wonderful Town" should be filmed with the original scores.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 07/07/2003 12:51 PM PST

WEL, very interesting. I didn't know that. Thanks.

Posted by Jane @ 07/07/2003 12:56 PM PST

Two more suggestions, Jane:

The Muppet Movie
Amelie

Posted by Lulu @ 07/07/2003 12:59 PM PST

Have to admit that I saw & fell in love with the "On the Town" movie long before I got to hear the original stage score, so to me it's the "real" music! Funny how strong those first impressions can be.

Posted by lori @ 07/07/2003 01:06 PM PST

Bill - I must agree with you re:Buddy Ebsen in BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY'S...

I also think he gives a terrific performance in BETWEEN HEAVEN AND HELL with Robert Wagner.

See ya, Buddy. Y'all come back now, ya hear?

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/07/2003 01:13 PM PST

Lulu - Amelie is a great choice. That movie is so cute!

Posted by JB aka JK @ 07/07/2003 01:27 PM PST

DR Jane: I'm not sure if you were looking for "classic" movies, or just funny ones, but I recently saw "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days", and it was 100% funny...Kate Hudson is amazing, and not surprisingly, is almost exactly like her mother, which is a GOOD thing, :).

My Fair Lady is a good choice for a musical, it's just funny and cute.

Father of the Bride 1 and 2 are nice ones too...hmm...thats all for now.

Posted by Sarah @ 07/07/2003 01:33 PM PST

I have a friend who got the rights to My Fair Lady and he is going to adapt it as a staright play.

Posted by MDS @ 07/07/2003 01:38 PM PST

I rather have celebrities die in threes rather than have ariplanes go down in threes

Posted by MDS @ 07/07/2003 01:39 PM PST

Did you know that Buddy Ebsen can heard and not seen in The Wizard Of Oz. Whenever the Tin Man is not singing a solo, but as a group it is Buddy Ebsen.

Good old Buddy had three successful tv series. Davy Crockett, Beverly Hillbillies and Barnaby Jones.

And talking of Barnaby Jones whatever happened to Mark Shea who played his nephew/

Posted by MDS @ 07/07/2003 01:42 PM PST

DR and DF Jane, as you must know, I've a weakness for romantic comedies. My favorites are While You Were Sleeping, You've Got Mail, and Serendipity. Also, Princess Bride, Men in Tights, and, for non-stop laughs, What's Up, Doc?. These are all movies that leave leave me smiling. The list is much much longer, but this is a start.

Posted by Susan @ 07/07/2003 01:42 PM PST

Click on the on the linl below and you can see a 7 minute clip for the movie that recently played in LA. Sounds so interesting and can't wait for the DVD to see all the extras!!!

www.broadwaythemovie.com/flashEnabled.html

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 07/07/2003 01:50 PM PST

The actual name of "Father of the Bride 2" is "Father's Little Dividend." Liz and Spence are wonderful but it can't compare to the first.

Posted by William E. Lurie @ 07/07/2003 01:50 PM PST

Welcome, Lori! Back from
lunch. Isn't that exciting? Isn't
that just too too?

Posted by bk @ 07/07/2003 01:59 PM PST

Quite coincidentally, ON THE TOWN was last week's movie in the Last Remaining Seats series in downtown Los Angeles. Miss Betty Garrett appeared before the screening, and at the age of 84, she is still quite sprightly and more than a little bit dishy.

The film is great fun, but add my voice to the chorus of discontent over the excision of so much of Leonard Bernstein's wonderful score. With all due respect to Mr. Freed and his much lauded unit, what the heck were they thinking? There are two songs in particular that I really, really, really (that's three reallys) miss from the film soundtrack: "I Can Cook, Too," which has to be one of the best novelty songs ever written, and "Some Other Time," which is a magnificent, heart-wrenching rendering of the wistfulness that comes with untimely partings.

I agree with dear reader William E. Lurie's suggestion that a new film version with the complete original score be made. Alas, the liklihood of that happening is probably somewhere between slim and none.

Posted by Jay @ 07/07/2003 01:59 PM PST

Well, DR WEL, you're partly right. The original films, starring Spencer Tracy are titled "Father of the Bride" and "Father's Little Dividend." The remakes, starring Steve Martin, are titled "Father of the Bride" and "Father of the Bride 2." They are also quite funny, in their own way, holding their own to the originals without trying to BE the originals (mainly because of the stylistic changes).

Posted by SWoodyWhite @ 07/07/2003 02:01 PM PST

father's little dividend and Royal Wedding and Words and Musis are three of the better MGM movies that some how slipped in public domain. So that is why there are so many shitty version on DVD out there

Posted by Michael Shayne @ 07/07/2003 02:14 PM PST

PILLOW TALK is a funny Doris Day comedy; probably her most sophisticated one, but I really love THE THRILL OF IT ALL. Of more recent films, I'd pick BEST IN SHOW as a hilarious comedy.

I have been really lucky with jobs. Even the job I had during the summers while I was in college, working in the proof and bookkeeping departments of a local bank, weren't really bad except at the end of the month when statements had to be sent out. Then, we'd be there until almost midnight. All this was in the pre-computer era, if you can imagine such a thing.

Posted by Matt H. @ 07/07/2003 02:20 PM PST

No, Michael it wasn't WORDS AND MUSIC that slipped into public domain; it was TILL THE CLOUDS ROLL BY.

Posted by Matt H. @ 07/07/2003 02:21 PM PST

Worst job - vacation job cleaning office ventian blinds and dusty walls in a legal office.
Funny movies: "The Producers", "The Twelve Chairs", "Silent Movie" "Young Frankenstein" & any of the "Carry On" movies.

I caught up with the Director's cut of "Cinema Paradiso" last night. Delightful movie and I don't thi nk it is oversentimental as do some critics - charming nostalgia.

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/07/2003 02:25 PM PST

Worst job - vacation job cleaning office ventian blinds and dusty walls in a legal office.
Funny movies: "The Producers", "The Twelve Chairs", "Silent Movie" "Young Frankenstein" & any of the "Carry On" movies.

I caught up with the Director's cut of "Cinema Paradiso" last night. Delightful movie and I don't think it is oversentimental as do some critics - charming nostalgia.

Any thoughts on a name for the "My Fair Lady" play?

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/07/2003 02:26 PM PST

How did that happen?

Posted by Tom from Oz @ 07/07/2003 02:27 PM PST

I got completely distracted, and forgot all about today's topic.

I worked for 23 years as a clerk for an insurance company. That should prove I've got a high tolerance level for pain. It also cuts down on my "worst job" experiences. I tended more to have "worst co-workers" experiences. Being a clerk is, after all, considered blue-collar work, and that's where the problem lay. All too often, a few of the claims representatives would decide that all their education allowed them to treat the clerks like insects, and life would become hell.

Mind, I too had a college education. I simply had found that I was a damn fine clerk, which like damn fine pie (a Kyle MacLachlan reference) can be a really good thing. And most of the claims people were very good, decent sorts. But there were exceptions, and they could be nasty nasty nasty.

For example, there was one claims person who would occasionally come into the file room, go into the stacks, come out again and loudly proclaim that she had "found a misfiled file." She made no attempt to show where the misfiled file was, but used her proclamation as "proof" that the clerks were all incompetent. She did everything she could to poison the well, and we clerks all sighed with releif when she finally left the company (it turned out she'd been shuffling her own files around quite a bit.)

Then there was the claims adjustor who volunteered to work with my supervisor and myself to review work proceedures. For several weeks we worked on our report together, going over everything that was done, agreeing on some changes and showing why other changes weren't possible with the staffing we had. We then went to a meeting with all the office supervisors and managers AND THE DISTRICT MANAGER to submit our report. The adjustor promptly stood up...and read a report that claimed that the clerical team had agreed to all the changes that we actually had agreed were not possible. AND THE DISTRICT MANAGER TOOK HER REPORT AS FINAL AND REJECTED THE REPORT MY SUPERVISOR AND I HAD WRITTEN WITH THE ADJUSTOR! Needless to say, my supervisor started looking for another post with another company, and soon left.

This is typical behavior among some people. Look around, see how they treat the clerk behind the counter at the pharmacy, or the waitress and the busboy, or anyone else who is "blue collar." There are nasty people in the world, and a lot of them have earned their degrees.

Bleh. I'm SO glad I'm retired.

Posted by S. Woody White @ 07/07/2003 02:29 PM PST

Ah Bi-Mart, I know it well. Been in my hometown for a long time.
Worst jobs...a toss-up between my two high-school summer jobs. The first being working kitchen/janitorial at a summer retreat center. The kitchen stuff wasn't so bad, except for the ungodly hours (had to be up there by 5 for breakfast, and it was a half hour commute) but I never wanted to clean a shower or a toliet as long as I lived after two years of that...it was awful. The second worst had to be the job I had the summer after, respite care for a seven year old downs syndrome boy. Now, I work with disabled kids a lot, I enjoy the work...but this child was absolutely horrendous. His mother hadn't bothered to even try discipline, so he thought he could get away with anything, his older brother taught him how to fight...not a good thing, and his favorite thing in the world to do was run away and hide from me, and he was a fast runner for his age. The job basically sapped me of all physical and emotional energy, and I became a rather unpleasant person to be around. My boyfriend was very glad when that job ended.

Posted by Ann @ 07/07/2003 02:47 PM PST

Dammit, I already wrote a "straight play" version of MY FAIR LADY and I called it PYGMALION!

Posted by G. Bernard Shaw @ 07/07/2003 02:48 PM PST

Jeesh. A dead playwright posts a comment here and everyone disappears.

Posted by Jay @ 07/07/2003 03:46 PM PST

Yes, that is what always
happens when a damn dead
playwright posts here at
haineshisway.com. Damn
them, damn them all to hell.
Let's get a rally going on - I
need posts to read every now
and then as a moment comes
up when I can log on. Today
and tomorrow are mostly catch
up days for me - just viewing
shows from last season and
waiting to hear where the
locations are for the shoots so
I can do a little prep work. The
money issue worked out just
fine, the paperwork is signed
and I guess I'll be here for a
few weeks.

Posted by bk @ 07/07/2003 04:06 PM PST

I have mostly been a mom for the past 21 years, so I don't really have any bad job stories.

I was a court reporter BC (before children) and the worst thing I had to listen to was a young woman being forced to describe being raped in detail, while the defendant sat there and smirked. Ever felt like spitting on someone?

The stupidest thing I ever heard was a divorcing couple, fighting over everything, including the spices in the spice cabinet.

Posted by Laura @ 07/07/2003 05:00 PM PST

Three more feel-good movies:

Auntie Mame
My Favorite Year
The Solid Gold Cadillac

Posted by TorontoDan @ 07/07/2003 05:35 PM PST

Another feel good movie is "Little Voice"

I'm sure Maya will agree :)

Posted by Emily @ 07/07/2003 05:49 PM PST

I haven't seen the whole movie (if I'm remembering the right movie and remembering correctly, this is a spoiler), doesn't "Little Voice" end with her dying in a fire? Am I wrong about this? It didn't seem like "feel good" movie to me from the parts that I'd seen. But correct me if I'm wrong.

Otherwise, Jane, I second "The Muppet Movie," "Auntie Mame" and "What's Up, Doc?" I've also liked (in a totally different direction) "The Quiet Man."

Posted by George @ 07/07/2003 06:14 PM PST

There is a fire, but she gets saved by Ewan Macgregor's character in true dramatic fashion. The movie ends with them escaping her evil mother and taking care of pigeons.

Who could ask for anything more? (ooh... Gershwin reference)

Posted by Emily @ 07/07/2003 06:19 PM PST

Isn't it amazing? I can't remember what I had for lunch yesterday, but I can remember every stinking detail of the worst job I ever had, even though it was thirty-five years ago. The summer after high school graduation, I got a job working at a fish processing plant here in Tacoma. The hourly wage was some totally unheard of amount, for the time, but I soon found out why. Twice a day I had to pull the kippered salmon pieces that had been cooking for twelve hours on the racks and wrap each one of them, and then fill the racks with new pieces of salmon that would then cook during for the next twelve hours. There is nothing better than starting your morning at six a.m. by grabbing chunks of raw salmon out of a container of fish and brine and slopping them onto racks for kippering. Some of the pieces of fish had, shall we say, problems, but I was told to put them on the racks anyway, because the temperature of the ovens would kill everything.

In the afternoon, my time was spent scrubbing down the room where the fish were cut and cleaned. If you have ever tried to peel a label off of a piece of glassware, then you can you imagine a little of the frustration of trying to peel fish scales off of a cement floor.

By the end of my first week on the job, I began to experience terrible pain and stiffness in my hands. It got so bad that my Mom had to massage my hands for twenty minutes every morning so that I could go work. It wasn’t until my last day on the job that my co-workers told me that the pain and stiffness I had been experiencing was from the fact that I was suffering from fish poisoning from having my hands in the brine twice a day. Apparently, all the kids they hired for that job eventually suffered from the poisoning, but they didn’t want to tell me because they were afraid I would quit. DAMN STRAIGHT!

Gee, working for the State of Washington doesn’t sound nearly as bad as it did first thing this morning........... And no, I do NOT eat salmon to this day.

Posted by TCB @ 07/07/2003 06:36 PM PST

DR Michael Shayne - Thank you so much for the link to Broadway, The Movie. I can't wait to see it. How incredible?

Posted by TCB @ 07/07/2003 06:38 PM PST

Jane,
I hope that your friend's illness is not anything terribly serious. It is very nice of you to try to collect some fun stuff to watch.

I have seen the Japanes film SHALL WE DANCE...and it is wonderful! Very amusing and touching. Another film I would highly recommend to bring a smile to anyones face is THE PARENT TRAP (the original version) and the Lucille Ball film YOURS, MINE, AND OURS!

Posted by Mbarnum @ 07/07/2003 06:52 PM PST

Well well well (that is 3 wells) - The Jeepers Creepers photo page is now up. You can get there by click on this:

http://www.haineshisway.com/jeepers

Enjoy!

Posted by Craig @ 07/07/2003 07:17 PM PST

So many wonderful responses. Thank you all very much. You have reinforced many of my choices, such as Amelie which was one of my top choices. Others I was hesitant to include are now on the list. You have reminded me of wonderful movies I had missed such as "Father's Little Dividend." which I preferred to "Father of the Bride".

Posted by Jane @ 07/07/2003 07:40 PM PST

I absolutely love Amelie--I've seen that movie about ten times and I still don't get tired of it. Audrey Tautou is soooo cute.

Craig--loved the Jeepers Creepers photos and the new Juliana's Journal.

MBarnum--I wanted to see the original Japanese Shall We Dance, but somehow never did. I've heard some pretty bad news about it though--they're remaking it with Jennifer Lopez, otherwise known as J-Ho. Sorry if I sound catty but that woman gets on my nerves.

Meeoow.

Posted by Maya @ 07/07/2003 07:54 PM PST

Don't know what on earth took
me so freakin' long, but I just
now finally read the entries
thus far in Juliana's Journal!
Quite delightful... and, my oh
my, she's quite lovely. Now I'm
gonna have to see the Millie
tour when it hits Seattle!

Posted by Jed @ 07/07/2003 08:23 PM PST

Well Maya I am in agreement with you about Jennifer Lopez. I don't understand her popularity and she seems like a very unpleasant person from what I have heard. And I think I will avoid the remake of SHALL WE DANCE...it couldn't possibly have the charm of the Japanese version.

Posted by MBarnum @ 07/07/2003 10:04 PM PST

-Just checked out Juliana's latest entry, as well as the Jeepers Creepers pics. Fun! Fun! Fun!

-Has anyone else had the Edy's Apple Cinnamon Sorbet? YUM!!!!

-And, DR MusicGuy - Your package was waiting for me when I got back to Richmond earlier tonight. Thank you! I'm sure I will enjoy them!

Posted by Jose C. Simbulan @ 07/07/2003 10:09 PM PST

I've got ya' all beat!

The worst job I've ever had is the one I have now . . .

LOOKING FOR A JOB.

Posted by Sigerson Holmes @ 07/07/2003 10:54 PM PST

Today I got home and there was a plethora of packages waiting for me in my mailbox. (Does three count as a plethora?) Anyway (even though it's not Friday), I have to share one of the purchases: I just received a solo video/audio DVD from aixrecords.com of Cheryl Bentyne from The Manhattan Transfer. What I had forgotten is that the one and only Grant Geissman is playing guitar on the DVD! Although the website hasn't been updated (so it's not on it), Grant also has his very own video/audio DVD. Actually it's the Grant Geissman Quintet and it's called "Later On & All Around." Cheryl's is called "Among Friends." As soon as I finish this post, I'm going to watch Cheryl's DVD.

About jobs: I've only worked at two places in my life (but have had various jobs with each. My current place of employment, the administrative headquarters of a 27-branch library system based in Olympia, WA; and the music library of Western Washington University when I was in my 4th and 5th years of college (I transferred to Western as a junior and went to college for a total of 5 years). I've loved both places. There were, of course, moments that were not too pleasant, but overall, I've thoroughly enjoyed the various jobs that I've had. But then again, I have to admit that my standards are fairly low and have been able to put up with pretty much anything (so far, anyway).

Posted by George @ 07/07/2003 11:02 PM PST

Sigerson - That's my current
profession as well.

Posted by Jed @ 07/07/2003 11:08 PM PST

DR Jane:
How about these Feel-Goods:
GREEN CARD
PRETTY WOMAN
KISSING JESSICA STEIN
MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING
ARTHUR
FRANKIE & JOHNNY (Pacino, Pfieffer)

Posted by KT @ 07/08/2003 12:31 AM PST

Worst Job: Driving all over town, 7 days a week, doing Life Insurance physical exams...going to strangers' homes, driving 35 miles sometimes to make $11 or so, having big guys faint dead away when I drew their blood....

Second worst job: doing treadmill testing in a Wellness Exam Center, having someone go all arrythmic or v-fib (pre-cursor to heart attack)in the blink of an eye.

Posted by KT @ 07/08/2003 12:37 AM PST

Morning, all!

:)

Posted by Lulu @ 07/08/2003 05:02 AM PST

Morning, Lulu (and everyone else)

Posted by Ben @ 07/08/2003 05:12 AM PST

Craig -thanks for the links to the pics! What fun...I can hardly wait.

DR Susan IS a Puppet Person!!!

And Michael thanks for the BROADWAY MOVIE link...I had heard about it, but didn't know any details! Psyched out now!

Bill - do you suppose Tab was inspired by Richard Chamberlain's book?

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/08/2003 06:33 AM PST

Reading Juliana's Journal is truly like "being there."

What a treat! She is living the dream of so many people, and she appreciates her opportunity, is working so hard - and sharing it with us! YEA!!!!

Thanks again to BK and Juliana. I am so hoping TMM comes close to Indiana!!!

Posted by Jrand52 @ 07/08/2003 06:39 AM PST

Good morning all! Those photos are great - thanks Craig! That Brent guy doesn't look so bad either :)

Posted by JB aka JK @ 07/08/2003 07:06 AM PST

BK--The JEEPERS CREEPERS photos are great BUT where are the Joe Allen reunion pictures?

Posted by Arnold M. Brockman @ 07/08/2003 07:34 AM PST