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by Tara on February 5, 2013
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Delightful
by Tara on January 30, 2013
Clyde and Ivy on the ski lift at Sierra at Tahoe
Okay so I still don’t have a job. I am still having interviews and getting better at interviews and getting CLOSE to getting a job. I had a recent round of interviews at a company that told me I was fascinating and delightful, but not right for the position. Which was disappointing. One can, after all, learn job-required skills. Being delightful is something you are born with.
In any case, I am not feeling delightful, but am feeling somewhat hopeful after an interview that I had yesterday for a JOB I WANT SO BADLY.
Arun hasn’t had much more luck than I have, so we are both on unemployment. I said to him yesterday, what if neither of us ever get jobs ever again. And all his solutions were really not that helpful or delightful.
I took the kids skiing over the weekend and that was mostly enjoyable, save for one run when Ivy surveyed the too steep slope of the intermediate run we mistakenly took her on, promptly sat on her ass and said “I’m not doing this.” Two hours of her sliding down sideways, while trying to avoid snowboarders and we barely made it to the very last ski lift run of the day. By then it was snowing hard and the only place the lift could take us (in order to get us down) was an intermediate run aptly named “Escape”. Sometimes you have to put the fear of God in your children in order to give them a sense of urgency. So I told her that we had to go down the mountain and that this was a hard run but also the only way down. I added that the alternative would be to sleep in a snow cave and possibly freeze to death or be eaten by bears. Ivy likes to imagine disaster, so I knew it would work. She nodded, made a swipe at her goggles to clear them, and down she went.
In other news, this morning some kid pointed and laughed at Clyde’s sweatshirt: “That’s a pink sweatshirt! You’re wearing pink! You’re a girl!!” and I went up to the kid all flustered and said something like, “We don’t do that in Northern California! We’re all tolerant and kind and accepting. Plus, it’s not pink it’s light red!” When what I wanted to do was kick him in the nuts. But I can’t, because the kid is 7 and as you know, I am delightful.
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Candy Cottage
January 22, 2013I’m going to be posting some flash fiction once in a while. I’m trying to get it so it appears on another tab instead of front page, but my wordpress skills aren’t good enough to figure that out yet… ……………….. Candy Cottage Days like today she has an irrational fantasy, a delicious wish as she [...]
Second Prize in a Beauty Content
January 16, 2013I’m still job hunting. I got very close on a job I wanted very very much, but in the end after countless interviews, did not get. I had a recent interview (phone and in person) for a great company and we’ll see where that goes. I never give up hope until that last email comes. [...]
Protected: Orange
December 1, 2012There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
October
October 29, 2012Things are the same. Slightly worse, but mostly the same. I still don’t have a job though am renewing my 30 day sub certificate which allows me to be a substitute teacher. This is work I did 15 years ago, so to say it feels like I am going backwards is an understatement. I am [...]
I’m on a (really old) boat
October 16, 2012I spent Sunday evening on a historic ship docked in San Francisco as part of a fifth grade field trip. Though it was only an 18 hour trip, I am spent. Every fifth grade class in our elementary school takes this trip up to San Francisco, up to Hyde Street Pier where they board the [...]
Protected: New Job: Part 4
September 27, 2012There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
Apres l’Ondee
September 4, 2012We went and saw the Cindy Sherman show at the SFMoma. Sherman has been photographing herself in various guises for 35 years. In her photos she uses prosthetics, makeup, staged backgrounds, costumes. Her photos are beautiful and alarming and sad and above all…odd. She has a series I really like that is made up of [...]
Protected: Part 3
August 27, 2012There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
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