image dump and boring life stuff

[thagandizzle]

This was another pretty interview-heavy week, though I'm pretty sure I won't know anything about any of these jobs until after the holidays. It's always a bit awkward trying to tell people how my interviews go because I am just one of those lucky bastards who naturally interview well. So, even if I don't think I'm super into, the interview tends to go well and I miss out on jobs more from lack of experience than from lack of charisma. So, the interviews all went well! But that just doesn't guarantee a hire for me!

I had a job interview today on Capitol Hill and since it was a nasty, windy, intermittently rainy day, I sat myself down post-interview and did . The place where I interviewed was also DANGEROUSLY near the Blick art supply store in Capitol Hill and, well, I restrained myself as best I could. I'm going to call my mom on Saturday and, when I do, I'm going to thank her for buying me all those art supplies when I was in high school. Shit's expensive!! I played with the Faber-Castell alcohol-based brush pen markers and... Dang... They were nice. But, like, I have never colored with markers! So it's not like I need them! I need to stop spending money on art supplies that I play with once or twice and then never use! (I'm looking at you, oil pastels.) I just want to learn how to do/use all the things!

Then, I came home and did .

In between, I decided to document my real experience with the wind and put my phone up against my face and took some pictures of what my hair was doing. It has not been easy to see all week! Only really fully expressed what my vantage has been like, so here it is.

J and I watched the Great British Bake Off holiday special and it was very nice, since GBBO is always very nice. J and I also decided not to put our tree up this year. We had our tree up for a REALLY long time last year and, well, it just hasn't been down long enough? We both were really carefully not talking about it as we were each hoping the other wouldn't bring it up. Once we finally breached the subject with one another we were both really relieved to know we were on the same page! We've only been together for, like, ten years so it's not like we know one another or anything. ;) So we have a pile of Amazon boxes that I've been referring to as our tree. At least it's less annoying if the cats knock it over than it would be if we had an actual tree up.

I'm hoping that J will feel up to seeing Mary Poppins this weekend. Fingers crossed! It seems like it's pretty charming and I'm kind of feeling like I'd like Emily Blunt if she did pretty much anything ever?

Comments

[aim_of_destiny]

hey, same hat hair! or rather, same hair issue when it's windy.

incidentally, i love those ice skating pose studies, they're very expressive :)

[thagandizzle]

The struggle is real.

And thank-you! I was recommended an ice skating video on YouTube for some reason--it's not usually something I watch--and was really feeling it. :)

[indefinable]

Hahaha that photo of your hair is amusing. It will take me years to grow my hair out to that length again. Got mine cut to a bob a couple of months ago because the dry ends were annoying me.

Aye, interviews. Unfortunately I suffer from both lack of experience and charisma. Oh well.

[thagandizzle]

It has been BONKERS all week! I feel really self-conscious when I have my hair up and won't go out at all unless it's down. Wearing an actual hat has mostly just resulted in my hair trying to force the hat off of my head. So I've just been a faceless hair monster whenever I'm outside.

Interviews are awkward! I don't know why or how I'm as chill about them as I am, so I'm useless at giving pointers. Interviews are like the only time in my life when I'm not like, "I suck at pretty much everything, lol!"

[indefinable]

Lend me a quarter of your interview-chill! :P

[zesty_pinto]

I envy your interview superpowers. For me, it's always awkward and I feel like I'm trying to convince a blind date to date me a second time whenever I do these interviews.

You live in DC? If that's the case, then I can understand why those art supplies would be so freaking expensive, hah. I've read about cost of living there and it always intimidates me at the scale of it.

[thagandizzle]

I live in Seattle - one of our neighborhoods is called Capitol Hill ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitol_Hill_(Seattle) ) so, thankfully, not DC prices, but definitely not inexpensive, either!

I've tried really hard to help friends and colleagues up their interview game but, honestly, I don't know how I do it! I feel like most people are really understandably awkward at getting interviewed (and even more people are really awkward at giving interviews!) and I have no idea why I'm not. I'm not an inherently un-awkward person, you know? it's weird and I am unhelpful about it to others!