titusnowl: (all my possessions for a moment of time)
[personal profile] titusnowl
I have an interview at Staples tomorrow afternoon and I can't find my Interview Skirt. Will a pair of neat khakis and a nice button-front shirt be appropriate for an interview at a retail job?

I am doing laundry. Laundry Day is a wonderful thing. In our next apartment we will have washer and dryer hookups, so maybe we will luck out and somebody who is moving will give us their washer and dryer or sell them to us for like $50 and we will be able to do laundry all the time instead of hoarding it in the corner of my bedroom for months at a time.

I have no plans at all for the 4th of July. Justin has to work late so I can't even go with him to the fireworks (sure, he'll be there, but he'll be working, not sitting with me on a bleacher holding hands and watching the pretty explosions), and we can't have any fireworks of our own for the same reason - no time after he gets off.

Justin went to a church yesterday and they gave him two loaves of "fellowship bread" to thank him for visiting and hopefully welcome him into the congregation. That was very nice of them. I kind of feel sorry, though, because they wasted their delicious evangelism bread on the godless atheists and not on somebody who would actually go to their church. It is a yummy baked-thing, though, and yummy baked-things are always good.

I have no food to cook for lunch or dinner, and it is the 4th of July so there are no restaurants. I can't go out to eat, anyway; trips to Greenville and Dallas cost $15 in gas and $20 in food (since spending a day out necessarily involves eating dinner out) and we have to go again tomorrow.

Speaking of Dallas, here are some pictures from Friday's trip.



The porn.



The voyeurs.



Aren't penguins adorable?



And I am, too!



This is a Canadian octopus! He is from the oceans off British Columbia.



The ducklings on the Commerce campus. I touched one!



Sooooo cute!



The whole flock followed us around.



Bright lights, big city.



The Mobil pegasus atop the Magnolia building, built in the '20s or '30s as the offices of Magnolia oil, later bought out by Mobil (hence pegasus), currently a hotel catering to businesspeople, with reduced rates on weekends. We had always intended to take a trip to Dallas over a weekend and stay in the Magnolia, but it's kind of pointless now that we're going to be living right up the road, huh? I like the contrast between the 1920s building and all the huge glassy modern structures that surround and overpower it.



We stopped at Pioneer Plaza and looked at the 19th century cemetery. Victorian tombstones are works of art. I liked the carving on this one. It is very sentimental and the symbol of love makes the tombstone more personal than the carvings of crosses and weeping willows on other stones.

Date: 2004-07-04 01:44 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] akatsukami.livejournal.com
"I have an interview at Staples tomorrow afternoon and I can't find my Interview Skirt. Will a pair of neat khakis and a nice button-front shirt be appropriate for an interview at a retail job?"

I would say so. The key to dressing for an interview is to dress neatly, cleanly, but as though you already have the job.

Date: 2004-07-04 07:08 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chikkiboo.livejournal.com
I've been told you should dress one step above what you'd actually be wearing at the job. But then, since the job's got a uniform - black pants and a tacky polo shirt - khakis and a nice button-front IS one step above that, isn't it?

I usually wear a button-front top and a certain knee-length skirt which I actually bought several years ago to wear to an interview for college, but the skirt seems to have gone AWOL. I suppose I'll find it when I start packing for the move.

Date: 2004-07-04 07:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] akatsukami.livejournal.com
"I've been told you should dress one step above what you'd actually be wearing at the job."

Mmph. I've never been told that...but as you might guess from my picture, I usually dress one or two steps above how my colleagues do (why, yes, I am a dandy).

I was once chided gently on a "casual" day by being told, "You know, today is a 'dress-down Friday'". I replied, not entirely jokingly, "I am dressing down; this is an old tie."

I might have a deal for you.

Date: 2004-07-04 02:03 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lordjim.livejournal.com
In our next apartment we will have washer and dryer hookups, so maybe we will luck out and somebody who is moving will give us their washer and dryer or sell them to us for like $50 and we will be able to do laundry all the time instead of hoarding it in the corner of my bedroom for months at a time.

I have a washer and dryer that I'd let you have for $50. Just borrow a pickup and come to Dallas. I might even feed y'all and let you swim in the pool and maybe get some of the locals to come over too.

Let me know.

Re: I might have a deal for you.

Date: 2004-07-04 07:10 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] chikkiboo.livejournal.com
You've definitely got a deal. Not for several weeks, though. Possibly not until after the move, because right now we've no place to put a washer and dryer. First week or two of August? And we have a pickup and a Cherokee between us (and a '71 Chevy Nova, but since we're talking cargo vehicles it's not really worth mentioning).

I appreciate it and look forward to meeting y'all!

Re: I might have a deal for you.

Date: 2004-07-04 08:27 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] lordjim.livejournal.com
First couple of weeks in August will be fine. When you firm up a date, I'll see if I can gather up a few of the locals too.

Profile

titusnowl: (Default)
titus n. owl

January 2014

S M T W T F S
   1234
567891011
12131415161718
19202122232425
262728 293031 

Most Popular Tags

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Jul. 17th, 2025 02:53 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios