Last Friday - Interview
Friday I got up and ran through the test connection for the online software (Blue Jeans) that they use for interviews. Good thing I did, because on my old Windows 7 laptop, it didn’t recognize a video camera (my laptop supposedly has one, but half the software I’ve used lately can’t find it). So I pulled out the Windows 10 laptop and set that up. And discovered that their “test” meeting has a little animation of a parrot who repeats what you say back to you. It was actually pretty damned amusing (but I hope I don’t actually sound like that!)
I got set up against the door (which, once I took down the poster on it was the least distracting background I could find in my apartment that was near an outlet) and set my laptop on a stack of dictionaries so that it was the right height and wasn’t shooting up my nose and emphasizing my double chin.
I had four forty-five minute interviews, so three full hours of being charming, polite, and attentive.
Then I had lunch, followed by a two hour nap. Because I didn’t end up napping on Thursday, so by Friday I was exhausted.
And then I had a pizza for supper (thanks Lauren for posting the photo of your dog’s face when you said there was pizza coming) and watched Olympus has Fallen. Because I was in the mood for some Gerard Butler. Rarrrr. Even if it is one of the most ridiculous and gratuitously violent things I’ve ever seen (thanks basic cable for editing out the really gory parts!). I’d seen it before, so I knew what I was getting into.
I got set up against the door (which, once I took down the poster on it was the least distracting background I could find in my apartment that was near an outlet) and set my laptop on a stack of dictionaries so that it was the right height and wasn’t shooting up my nose and emphasizing my double chin.
I had four forty-five minute interviews, so three full hours of being charming, polite, and attentive.
Then I had lunch, followed by a two hour nap. Because I didn’t end up napping on Thursday, so by Friday I was exhausted.
And then I had a pizza for supper (thanks Lauren for posting the photo of your dog’s face when you said there was pizza coming) and watched Olympus has Fallen. Because I was in the mood for some Gerard Butler. Rarrrr. Even if it is one of the most ridiculous and gratuitously violent things I’ve ever seen (thanks basic cable for editing out the really gory parts!). I’d seen it before, so I knew what I was getting into.