Job interviews and Heidegger

I was going to bitch about how much my weeks have sucked, especially today. But I'm not. No one wants to listen to that. I don't even want to type it. Perhaps the idea of venting online was cathartic enough.

But I do have a story.

I went out to dinner the other night with one of my roommates. We sad next to a couple. Well, there were a couple of people. A man and a woman. The man was in his early 30s perhaps, his haring starting to fall out, his clothes neatly pressed, a bit too much cologne, and generally very fidgety. The woman, early 20s, no older than 23, fashionable dressed in muted colours and uber tall boots. At first I thought that they were boyfriend girlfriend or something along those lines. She came a little late--he had already ordered an appetizer. Well I start to listen to tidbits of their conversation...it sounded like a job interview. She was telling him about her classes and all that she does, what her career plans are, those kind of dry facts. He really did not add anything to conversation except for a few "umm hmm"s and "neat"s. It sounded exactly like a job interview. They were going to leave that restaurant with the job interview picture of each other, him more than her and she knowing little about the other guy. It was amazing. Such a dry and morning way to lead one's life. No probing questions, no laughing, no chatting about music or movies or art or the experiences that make us who we are. It was a listing of disjoint events. The things that make us who we are are not those silly resume facts. If they are, then I don't want a job (aka a girlfriend). People are much richer than that. Perhaps our culture has become so business like that even dinner dates become means to an end. But I don't even think that end was going to be empty sex in the case of what I observed. They were too busy and superficial for even empty sex. Yikes.

IS it fast food culture, is it information age culture, is it internet culture, PayPal culture, monster.com culture? I dunno. Those monikers are too facile too.

I normally don't eavesdrop like this, I swear. I just have really good hearing...

Anyways, on to "Question Concerning Technology." One of my least favourite essays. There are a great number of essays that are much more interesting, but these rhetorics kids want it...