SOME PERSONAL NEWS
It is with some relief that I hit the GET ME OFF THIS THING button on my half-hearted job search, I am staying put for now. I’d like to thank:
The company that interviewed me five times and then just…never spoke to me again
The company that pursued me most ardently and then an hour before the hiring manager interview emailed me to say they’re putting the role “on pause”
The company with the famously rigorous hiring process that, when I bowed out this week for various reasons, chose to simply pretend I no longer exist
Honorable mention to the company that rejected me but added me to their email marketing distribution list
I’m not sure why businesses go to such trouble to implement HR software when they don’t seem to use it but maybe that is the One Weird Trick™ Greenhouse.io et al have going for them. Customer success team? Who needs ‘em, our customers don’t even use the product! That’s all profit, baby.
I WEAR OUTFITS
Last week, my husband invited me out for a drink before we went to pick up the dogs. I took five minutes to change out of the dress I’d been wearing off and on for the last couple of days so I would look, as I told my husband, like a person instead of a weird dirty bat. I like the dress very much but there’s no getting around the fact that the runway from “kinda fashion-y goth caftan aesthetic” to “bat costume” is short indeed.
TOES
At long last, I treated myself to a pedicure this week. I can’t remember the last time I had one but it was definitely several months ago at least. I like this salon because it is friendly yet impersonal if that makes sense. Plus, I almost always see or hear something strange there, like the time I heard a woman asking for a discount on her husband’s pedicure because he only had nine toes.
HAIR DAY
I am blonde again.
THE WEATHER
We finally got the Death Heat this week. Today, it is supposed to reach 100 degrees (the forecast says 95 but at that point…in for a penny). Tonight for dinner we are having cold Italian sandwiches and frozen strawberry daiquiris. We’ve agreed not to use lights, the dishwasher, the air purifiers, or any electricity-sucking devices aside from the air conditioning. My entire goal is to barely exist until the temperature goes back below 90º. I’m not going to fare well in the climate-collapse future where Ohio is the new Florida. When that happens you can find me in Alberta ice-rollering my face.