Sunday, December 14, 2008

I'm quite unimpressive on paper

I've finally finished my CELTA (Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults I think). The most friggin' intense four weeks of my entire life 'cept for that one time I took my gran the long way home.

I think I've lost weight from all the waking up and not sleeping and doing more work than humans are medically allowed to outside of China - which means I now look like Skeletor (who is surprisingly muscular for a skeleton).

http://media.comicvine.com/uploads/0/229/217496-134157-skeletor_large.jpg

Now I'm fully qualified to make more mini-me's overseas. Get all the Parisians to speak like me do and make them all clever like. I'm really quite tired but now have to rewrite my CV for all the jobs I have to convince people I was conceived to do, which I hate doing because I always seem so unimpressive on paper.

I'm 23. My CV is HALF. A. PAGE.

I'm beginning to think life isn't always like in the movies. Damn them. Watched The Dark Night 3 times. Today. It makes me feel gooey and pink inside and then I forget about all the jobs I need to applique for. Goodness. I'm going to watch Batman.

6 validate me-s:

po said...

Don't worry half a page is something. It should only be one of two anyway. Use bigger font. It will be fine.

JL said...

Po: Yeah bigger font. Good idea. And double line spacing. Perhaps even add a couple of illustrations or doodles. That's quite impressive by my liking.

mamastella said...

Congratulations on finishing :)

JL said...

MamaStella: Ah thanks! I'm quite relieved. And anxious to teach overseas. It's quite a difficult combination of emotions - like being microwaved with popcorn.

Noel said...

This is where you start pulling stuff out of your ass. Got a friend who has a zine or something? Use that as a publication. No one really checks them anyway.

I've padded my CV more times than...well, I had a tampon joke there, but it's late and I should be sleeping soon.

The Alterpenguin Superdork said...

Wow, I'm like, totally not alone and stuff, I also do applique when I should be applying for jobs, this one time [though unfortunately not at band camp, life totally isn't as much fun as movies] I appliqued my CV to a pair of converse...so not hot, so then I tore it off, scanned it and applied for some jobs instead. It was a good year.
Ridiculous blethering aside, congrats on finishing, and half a page is all good, it's all in the PR anyway, applique a christian bale felt figurine on the back and refer to it as time managed and concise ;)