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I just finished a phone interview with Adrian Chamberlain who writes for the Victoria Times Colonist. 

So funny writing those words.  All of a sudden, I had a flash back to being a teenager, growing up in Victoria, seeing the Victoria Times Colonist being sold in the stores. 

My girlfriend in grade nine, used to deliver the paper on her bike.  How I admired her, getting up early in the morning, flinging papers, rain or shine.  I thought briefly about seeing if they’d be interested in hiring me, but then she told me that sometimes it was hard collecting money.  How people would get grouchy and slam the door, or some of the older ladies would have her come inside and give her cookies and milk while they rummaged around trying to gather up all their spare change and talk about how much they missed their children now that they were all grown.  And she then she told me how one dumb loser guy would always answer the door naked and try to get her to come inside. 

“How stupid does he think I am?“  she snorted.

Anyway, when I heard that it was the end of my fantasy of being a jaunty, hard throwing, perfect aim, paper girl.  My new career lasted all of 15 minutes in my head.

Funny, it didn’t seem to faze her much.  She had a much stronger exterior than me back then.  Nice arm muscles too.

Anyway, back to Adrian.  He was very nice and for much of the interview, I forgot that it was one.

Posted by Meg Tilly on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 in Chewing the Fat