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So for the time being it appears that noon is my library/internet time. Hello again. I don't know how depressed I still feel but I'm expecting a call today from a place (discretion prevents me from naming names) that will either say, "You are hired" or "You are not hired". I had to pick now, of all times, to move to a tourist town. The end of fucking summer when no one needs any help. I am even branching out into retail stores. I mean a place like Office Depot wouldn't really need seasonal help, would they? Office Depot? Come on. Um. And Wal-Mart. Look, I'm fucking desperate, okay? Sheesh. Don't look at me like that!

If it wasn't for my class schedule I'd even go back to office/clerical work, which lord knows I have plenty of experience in. But it just wouldn't work with a M-F, 9-5 type job. No way I'd be able to work enough hours.

So, because things have been crappy, I don't have tv and I only get an hour a day online, I went ahead and against all better judgement checked out some books. I promise I will not read them when I should be job hunting, and I won't stay up late to read them and then not get up and look for work the next day. They are The Mage Hound by Elaine Cunningham, (who was a contributing author to the Sails and Sorcery anthology), and Baudolino by Umberto Eco, historical fiction.

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*hands out TimTams*
Sorry to hear you're still having trouble finding stuff - here's hoping something turns up soon.

And enjoy your books!

Oddly enough, something did turn up.

And what are TimTams? I am guessing they are delicious and/or fun, whatever they are.

Tim Tams are iconic Aussie biscuits made by an iconic Aussie biscuit company called Arnotts (that was bought by an American? company some 15 or so years ago, which is our own fault really), they make loads and loads of biscuits that are famous in Australia that you don't get here, like Monte Carlos, Kingstons, Iced Vovo and so on.

Tim Tams are chocolate, of course, rectangular, coated in chocolate, and with a chocolate praline filling. They come in different flavours these days, and there's the "Double coat" ones too. They're delicious and decadent and if you bite the corner off one end and the corner off the opposite end, and dip it in your coffee or hot chocolate and suck, you get a yummy drink and it melts the biscuit and it just melts in your mouth! (if you catch it before it disintegrates into your mug, that is!)

Sadly, you can't get them in North America.

Now that's just mean! Tempting me with chocolates that I can't have. *pout*

If it's an American company that bought it then why don't they export it?! Duh! I am such a chocoholic, I am pathetically unable to resist.

I suppose I'll just have to make brownies instead. Um. And eat half the batter before I actually bake them.

If it's an American company that bought it then why don't they export it?!

I don't know, I've often wondered that myself. Maybe it's too far to export, and if they make them themselves in the US, they wouldn't taste the same anyway.

Ha ha! I love dipping into the mixture too! Especially uncooked choc chip biscuit mixture! Is it true that in America you can buy this and eat it like that - I mean, that they deliberately sell it to be eaten uncooked? I think I saw something like that in a movie once...

Mmmm ... brownies...

Well, they could just make them here then instead of shipping them from the other side of the world.

You can buy premade cookie/biscuit dough, but the general idea is to bake it, not eat it raw. Be that as it may, you can buy chocolate chip cookie dough flavored ice cream in most stores.

I was going to buy stuff to make brownies, but the bakery had chocolate dipped doughnuts on sale because they were about to go stale...hhhm, buy ingredients to make brownies and wait for them to bake, or buy doughnuts and get instant gratification. Dilemma. Ha, right, no question there. I just popped 'em in the microwave and they tasted fresh again in fifteen seconds. :)

Gah, sorry, I totally forgot that they don't have TimTams everywhere else on the planet (they really should). I sort of assumed that you'd be able to find them overseas since you can get Vegemite around the place.

*sends TimTams your way*

And you found something! Hooray!

Have you read anything by Umberto Eco before? I tend to think of him as an author like Gabriel Garcia Marquez - a bit of a slog, really, and very "high brow", but I'm curious and wondering how readable he is. I'm too scared to try ;)

So far it seems to be okay. Then again I'm only halfway through chapter two. I've already ditched Magehound. Bleh. Not good.

Thanks for the tip, I'll avoid Elaine Cunningham :)