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May. 10th, 2023 12:36 pmToday I started my day off with a double-interview of two really sweet kids! I let them play alone in the game room for an hour while I interviewed their mom, then I came in to see what they were doing ... the boy had cobbled together an impressively detailed Egyptian tomb using LEGOs from a random assortment, and no pictures/references to help him ... like, extremely pretty, balanced, complex. He's only seven, I was really impressed. And the girl had sketched out a new interior design for the game room with modern furniture! I love these two already.
Yesterday we had a team lunch where one member decided to stay home, and the other two discussed whether he's seemed depressed lately ... cute that they care, but mortifying! I clammed up XD I don't think I spoke at all for the whole lunch, unless directly spoken to. At one point, one of my younger coworkers asked, "What's your life goal, everybody? I mean I assume you don't want to just work at a non-profit forever."
I wouldn't mind it. It's a better job than I ever expected for someone in my family. He turned to me and said, "Obviously you want to be an author!" and that surprised me too XD I don't think full-time writing is in the cards for me, and I don't think I would enjoy your typical "pump out a book every eight months according to your editor's demands" schedule. So that clammed me up too. Personal questions! "What's your life goal, what's your summer goal..." When they prompted me to ask some questions, I said, "Have you ever seen Mamma Mia?" and "When you mix two sodas at a fountain, which two sodas do you mix?"
(Their answers: Strawberry syrup + Sprite, and Mountain Dew + Mountain Dew Red. My answer: Orange Fanta + Sprite).
My coworker bought lunch for all of us, which was sweet, especially because I'm $35 in the red and it's still two weeks till pay day! Tomorrow we have softball, and then on Friday we have a toga party. In reality I'm not too much older than my coworkers but I feel like they're a different species sometimes. They always do Thirsty Thursdays, margaritas on Friday, house parties Friday night, clubbing on Saturday... even softball is a drinking affair XD One of my coworkers said he's bringing a cooler of White Claws, which I've never tried, because iirc they came out after I'd gone through the early-20s heavy-drinking phase.
( Writing - orson scott card )
Yesterday we had a team lunch where one member decided to stay home, and the other two discussed whether he's seemed depressed lately ... cute that they care, but mortifying! I clammed up XD I don't think I spoke at all for the whole lunch, unless directly spoken to. At one point, one of my younger coworkers asked, "What's your life goal, everybody? I mean I assume you don't want to just work at a non-profit forever."
I wouldn't mind it. It's a better job than I ever expected for someone in my family. He turned to me and said, "Obviously you want to be an author!" and that surprised me too XD I don't think full-time writing is in the cards for me, and I don't think I would enjoy your typical "pump out a book every eight months according to your editor's demands" schedule. So that clammed me up too. Personal questions! "What's your life goal, what's your summer goal..." When they prompted me to ask some questions, I said, "Have you ever seen Mamma Mia?" and "When you mix two sodas at a fountain, which two sodas do you mix?"
(Their answers: Strawberry syrup + Sprite, and Mountain Dew + Mountain Dew Red. My answer: Orange Fanta + Sprite).
My coworker bought lunch for all of us, which was sweet, especially because I'm $35 in the red and it's still two weeks till pay day! Tomorrow we have softball, and then on Friday we have a toga party. In reality I'm not too much older than my coworkers but I feel like they're a different species sometimes. They always do Thirsty Thursdays, margaritas on Friday, house parties Friday night, clubbing on Saturday... even softball is a drinking affair XD One of my coworkers said he's bringing a cooler of White Claws, which I've never tried, because iirc they came out after I'd gone through the early-20s heavy-drinking phase.
( Writing - orson scott card )
