This one's for Mungular in particular, but for also for the rest of the writers here (that's everyone I suppose), employed or not.
God don't you wish you could just disappear to a semi-tropical island, with or without your family or boyfriend/girlfriend (depending on the state of things), take a shitload of books and all those New Yorker magazines you never have time to read, your laptop (so you can stay in touch with OS), and plunk yourself down on a pristine beach?
There you’d lounge, looking out at the lapping waters, watching suntanned wind-surfers and snorklers, lifting your head to the occasional seagull…
Maybe you’d doze a bit, thinking about all those suckers in the frigid northeast U.S., all those folks trudging through a day looking at the same old McDonald’s and Taco Bells, the same old gray buildings, going to jobs where they’re under-paid and under-appreciated, or worse, trudging that same path, looking for work now that the policies of the U.S. president have come to full fruition. I mean sometimes don’t you just want to get away from the U.S. and go somewhere the mood is not so heavy and dark?
The only problem is how to make money? The only thing you really like to do is blog. How does someone do that, and make a living at it? Seems just impossible.
Job posting - spotted in the January 14, 2008 NYT. Application deadline: Feb 22.
Heading: "Temp Job In Paradise Pays $100,000"
Here’s the website: http://islandreefjob.com/
Here’s the article where I found the listing:
(http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/world/asia/15australia.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=%24100,000%20job%20in%20australia&st=cse)
Essentially heading over to Hamilton Island off Australia and lounging around in the sun, swimming some, drinking, going to bars, hanging in a hammock, reading every morning with your coffee in hand, fresh papaya juice on the wicker table. Probably some sex if you’re inclined.
Requirements: stroll beaches, swim in pool, and write about it. Don’t know if health insurance is included. Who the hell cares?
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Maybe we will see a mass Exodus from America due to this economy. I highly doubt it, but it's eye-opening for sure.
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But if your posts mysteriously come to a halt, we'll know where to find you. Just remember when you put on your thong bikini: Waist in the big hole, legs in the smaller ones.
Diving the GB reef has been a dream of mine for many years. I checked out the application. It was pretty vague. I can't even get anyone to look at an application in my own town. Still, I think I smell a dead fish in there somewhere.
Once I realized for three days my brain stopped.
All I did was watch clouds, seagulls, and beach bubbles.
Waves, sunrise, sunset, and then I realized my brain was at rest.
My first thought was:`I wonder if ducks ever get bored. Whammy.
Then I was sure my bra was pronounced:` Deceased. No Waves.
My God, or Whatever ... Why was I fearful ... Then I understood?
I can hardly explain it. The mind is not between the two earlobes.
My Fear? Vanquished. Dissipated. Ducks never are bored. Maybe?
Maybe if Ya take me to the beach, We count sea waves in eternity?
P.S.
Ya birthday is memorable. On September, 11, my son was married.
It was a date chosen to celebrate love and hope in horrible tragedy.
Maybe it's the cold air? Arteries, veins, toes,
nose, fingers, and the cold floor. Warm days!
Warn voices, Spirits, Friends with Happiness.
Intimate sense is it is the way it's always been?
Sorta. We built a city of Love. One individual,
One day. One step. One breath. One surrender.
Not in coward submission, but to what's Great.
I'm a boy with mild fat breast? No bra or brain.
It's 3 degrees outside, seriously.... where do I sign up???
gmgaston - If it's for real (and not some reality show stunt which in some ways it sounds like) it would be a total dream job!
LaurelNL - If I hadn't somehow got my underwear wrapped around the back of this chair, with me inside, I'd be laughing my ass off (at your comment)!!
Michael - yeah, there is something... mysterious about it. It was obviously conceived for the publicity it would generate, but still, there's an interview process, a job selection and then a contract, so I think someone will actually end up doing this. I wish it was me, if I didn't have to go through the annoying application process.
Arthur - Sandy beaches ROCK. I think that's what you're saying here...
nanatehay - (whenever I see your "handle" I always want to sing, "na na, hey, hey") If you get this job - can I visit you? Like for 6 months?
Science - For some reason, I seem to be able to put on a bathing suit without too much confusion... And yeah, I hear you. It's like 14 degrees here (you have it much worse!).
MJwycha - I'm sure you're qualified, but can you take the pressure? Sun beating down on you, waves crashing offshore, constant cry of seagulls, wind rustling the palm trees... hope you're a strong man.
at least your researching putting the dreams into action dcv .
I'm pretty sure I have all the qualifications listed in the
second to last paragraph . In fact , I would excel !
Denese - Can I be a subject in their research? can I do their research for them??
You might want to even contact this poster, Padraig - you'll see his contact info on his post.
I have followed Sri Lankan politics for years, mostly because the man and organization I honor above most, Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne and the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement, are there. I've spent a good 30 years of my life involved with that organization both because of their 'peace work' and 'development (model) work'. I did not know of this particular assassination of which you write, but I do know that a Sri Lankan friend very aligned with Sarvodaya posted the following last week on facebook (he is my friend):
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Of course, this is the same verse that Lasantha Wickramatunge wrote that was published postmortem. During various political eras in Sri Lanka Dr. Ari has been targeted for assassination by whichever person in power was unhappy with what he had to say at the time. He has never aligned himself with a political party either.
I recognize Wickramatunge's name as being Singhala, like my friend Dr. Ariyaratne. However, neither advocated for or against the government (Singhalese) or Tamil side (whatever that is, certainly not represented by the LTTE). Both were/are great patriots of their country. And it is a paradise, really, to which we are now afraid to return.