"Farby's: Back Home" and My Phone Interview

Today I had a phone interview with the VP of Finance with the company I'm applying to. It went rather well, and we had a friendly conversation focused around my travels, my language skills, my career interests, and his background. Remarkably he seems to have been in the same position as I am now. I'm really excited about the prospect of working with this company, especially because they are international - global better term that he used - and the position will include interaction with their other branches.

I'm supposed to hear from Jill, the recruiter I'm working with, by the end of the week regarding whether or not they're going to make me an offer.

L&D are secret shoppers for Arby's, so we had to go there for lunch so they could check that the fries were hot, the sandwich alignment was good, and the bathrooms were clean. We were super secret spies. They told me there's an Arby's in Van Wert - where Danielle works - and I guess it's surrounded by corn, and from a certain angle looks as though a nearby silo is attached to it. Therefore it was dubbed a "Farby's."

We watched 28 Weeks Later this afternoon - pretty good, though much gorier and action packed than 28 Days Later. I think the first movie was a little more thought provoking as opposed to "Zombies are everywhere, killing everyone!" theme this one had.

We also watched Babel, which I wasn't overly impressed with. I'd compare it to Crash or Magnolia, and Danielle and I decided both those were more interesting and had better actors. From a preview that ran right before the DVD started though, we made a little trip to the local Family Video - home of the creepy tower of light - to get a newer release called Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, a film following a post-revolution Frenchman who has an uncanny sense of smell, and "accidentally" becomes a serial killer in a quest to preserve the essence of beautiful women he encounters, trying to make the perfect perfume. I thought it was very good, though it did take a dive into absurdity toward the end. In a write up I read on Wikipedia about it, Stanley Kubrick, of all people, is quoted as saying that the book the film is based on was "unfilmable."

There seems to be quite a lot of rain going on back home in Cleveland - I guess some parts of the East side got up to 5 inches in just a short period of time. It rained here in Toledo too this morning, though I seem to have slept through it.