Blog Love Omega Glee: Your Week Is A Weekend (14 January 2012)

"Did you get that job yet?" Jake's dad asks, leaning in the doorway of Jake's room.

"No, nobody's called, but it's Saturday," Jake says, trying to write a blog entry about why The Waffle Warrior would make a great champion ("a waffle iron shaped championship belt would be a big merchandise seller").

"Ach, that doesn't matter," Dad says, waving a newspaper in his hand, "I just read an article about how the business world is on a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 52 weeks a year schedule now. Did you use positive visualization like I told you to?"

"Yeah," Jake says, "It worked pretty well until I was in the actual interview and I got distracted when it wasn't anything like what I visualized."

"Ach, you have to anticipate that. That's why you visualize it in the first place. These subliminal things work. Why just look at the fact that we drive on the right side of the road in the United States and England drives on the left side of the road? It subliminally affects the country's politics. It's why they're more left wing and we're more right wing. We'd have had national health care decades ago if we drove on the left."

"Wait. Doesn't China drive on the right? They're communist."

"Well, maybe technically, but their economic system is pretty free market capitalism anymore."

"Well, what about most people being right-handed? I bet England has more right-handed people than left-handed people so wouldn't that make them more conservative?"

"Ach, that's natural. Nobody pays any attention to that. It's the artificial things that attempt to influence us. For example, driving on the right was a decision somebody made. Why not drive on the left?"

"Because you'd get in an accident when everyone else drives on the right?"

"Ach, that was a rhetorical question. The point is that the rule of the road influences the rule of the land. It's too late now to change things, but you should use those subliminal factors to your advantage in your job search."

"Like what, write 'hire me' on my forehead in invisible ink?"

"All right, all right, you don't want to listen. I'm just trying to help you though."

"I know, Dad, I appreciate it. It's just Saturday and I'm trying to relax here."

"Relax from what? You don't have a job! Your week is a weekend. You spend too much time on that blog."

Jake looks at what he was typing on the computer screen about The Waffle Warrior, and deletes it all, "All right, I'll go apply at some stores in the mall. Maybe I can get something to tide me over until I can get a better job."

"That's the spirit. Make sure you enter the stores from the right though."

"Why's that?"

"So they know you're the right person for the job!"

Blog Love Omega Glee is a novel by Wred Fright about two bloggers who fall in love while the world falls apart, which is being serialized on his blog. To start reading from the beginning or read another installment, please visit Blog Love Omega Glee Central on WredFright.Com. If you like what you've read, or you've read all of Blog Love Omega Glee and want more Fright, then please read his first novel, which is available in print and as an ebook.