June 21, 2001
Interviews and Clothes
Okay, so I skipped my water aerobics class last night. I feel like I haven't stopped running all week. It's been a good week though. I had an interview yesterday for the job in tech support -- and I have a second interview today with the vice president of our group. I'm really trying not to get my hopes up, but things look promising. Incidentally, I didn't get offered the position I interviewed for last week. I didn't really expect to, and it's really better that I didn't. School would have been very difficult with that position.
As part of my interview yesterday I listened to one of the support reps take phone calls. It was really interesting! I've been here for four years and this is the first chance I've had to really listen in on what our department does. I'm thinking of recommending that each of the receptionists have a chance to listen to support calls, maybe customer service calls too. I think it would be helpful. Of course, the really interesting part was trying to figure out what the problem was and if I could solve it. About half of them I could figure out. The other half were program-involved and are things I would be trained on.
Oh, I'm trying so hard not to get my hopes up! I am anyway, though, which is typical of me. I had an interesting dilemma last night. I bought an interview outfit last week, and it's really the only nice outfit I had -- I thought. Naturally, I wore it yesterday. Then they asked me to interview with the vice president today and I thought, "Oh shit! What will I wear?" Then I remembered the evil leopard print dress hanging in my closet. With the little black velvet shirt buttoned up, it looks fairly professional. Tada! I've gotten several compliments, so that's a good sign. God. I can't remember the last time I dressed up two days in a row. I'd forgotten how nice it is to get compliments on clothes, and to look nice. I mean, it's not that I'm usually a total slob or anything, I just don't usually pay that much attention to my clothes. I'm wondering if maybe I should start.
Can you imagine? Me? As a fashion plate? Next thing you know, I'll be wearing makeup everyday to work. The horror! I might even have to start wearing hairspray again, and then where will I be? No, no. It'll never happen. Wearing pantyhose two days in a row has been bad enough. Heh. I can't even remember the last time I wore a dress to work. I might have last summer once or twice. When did I turn into such a tomboy? I guess I'm really not, but you'd never know it by the way I dress.
Here's a true sign of my geekdom, speaking of clothes: I got a nifty package from my Tribe 8 editor (via Mo, who got it first), containing an autographed copy of the main rulebook for the game and a really cool Tribe 8 t-shirt. I already have a generic Dream Pod 9 t-shirt, and it's my casual wardrobe mainstay. So anyway, I was all excited over this new t-shirt, but alas, it's too small and they don't make them any larger. I was so sad. I may have to wear the too-small shirt around the house, just to be able to wear it. Now that's geeky.
Posted by Lisa at June 21, 2001 11:49 AM
