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I had a job interview at a new school today. I love my job now (ie the pay for the hours worked ratio is incredible) but some weeks I work 5 days and others 2 so I want some more stability. I applied for the job Thursday night. Friday afternoon I got a call from a seemingly edgy young man asking if I could have an interview on Saturday. I readily accepted thinking he sounded so needy that the job was guaranteed.

In the interview I managed successfully to avoid my monotone Dalek voice that creeps up on me when I am under pressure as well as not generating popping noises every other word from the side of my mouth due to a tongue drier than the Sahara desert. However I was talking a hundred miles an hour like a coke fiend. They didn`t seem to mind - one of the interviewers was an American and perhaps took it as eccentric English behaviour. They didn`t ask me any interview type questions like why do you think you are best suited for the post? Instead they breezed through the contract and who they were. I don`t find out until January 10th whether or not I have the job. I find out by receiving a phone call. If I don`t get one I haven`t got it. This seems a bit tight but there you are.

On the way there I was getting step by step directions to the school through the mobile and some crazy random American stopped me and asked me if I was Josh. Not the last time I checked I told him and walked on. Later on I found out that bloke was the American who would interview me and Josh was the bloke whose interview was before me. He gets a guided escort and I pay for a 15 minute random mobile phone walk through. It`s this ethnocentrism thing coming into play again…

After the interview we went to a Pachinko parlour where I lost ten quid at five quid a go. Then later we were at another part of Osaka and the temptation got the better of me and Reiko and we had some more goes. I spent about 5000 yen or 25 quid there and lost it there. If you win big there you can easily collect 500 quid. I am like an addict except you usually get addicted after winning big and failing to keep the wins coming. I have played lots of times and have never won anything. I`m not suited to gambling although Pachinko is so much fun. I need more practice and research. Read more about Pachinko through the link below.