set me free, leave me be I shouldn't whine about it; it's the system. But you get the call, the one opportunity you're still holding out for, because nothing else seems to be happening, and the story they tell you seems unbelievable somehow.

"You were are our star candidate, and you were aces in the interview, but since you didn't score high enough on speaking french we can't offer you the job."

I did the French oral assessment yesterday and it wasn't pretty. I knew it didn't go well, but it still kinda takes the wind out of your sails to hear something like that.

I think the universe is telling me something, and it goes something like this: Ottawa can suck it.  | ¶ 11:53 p.m.