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| This is not Dave. |
To kill the boredom in class today I wrote a brief interview style piece on Dave, the guy sitting next to me, based on a short conversation we had at the beginning of the class.*
DAVE
Dave is a third year Sociology and Media Studies student at Victoria. He settled on sociology after a brief flirtation with psychology in his first year; which ended abruptly after he came to the realization that it would involve math; and has not looked back since. He’s not quite sure where this degree is going to lead him; but he has been considering applying for a teaching position in Japan, a country he has become interested in during his studies, because “they’ve got some crazy stuff going on there, man.”
When he’s not studying, Dave works at the new Wendy’s franchise on Courtenay Place, a job he believes has gone way downhill since the installation of multiple security cameras in the store which prevent him from sampling the ice cream between customers. His boss is a “total Nazi” and I get the strong impression that Dave will not miss his workplace if he does move to Japan.
Dave’s other interests include extreme sports such as long boarding, skiing and surfing- and while he finds these activities exhilarating and energizing; they do occasionally land him in some trouble. Just last week he was pulled over by a policeman while long boarding through a red light in Newtown; and subsequently charged $150. He believes this was unfair for three main reasons; first of all, there were no other cars on the road. Secondly, stoplights fail to register the presence of long boarders so he would have had to wait ages for it to change. And thirdly, and perhaps most significantly, the policeman had a “stupid handlebar mustache” and was “clearly just bored.”
Stay tuned for more Dave related news.
*Hopefully he never finds this blog. Would be more than a little creepy for him.
oh man frances, when you said he works at the new wendy's franchise i got so excited, like i thought for a minute there they had actually opened a real wendys and i could go there and stuff. but no. another ice cream wendy's. they're all the just like each other, they roll into town, and like, get all my hopes up and stuff, but it's always the same betrayal. no dave, no burgers, nothing. how disappointing. I don't suppose this matters to you seeing as you don't eat meat burgers anyway? :(
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