I'm Employed!!!

Hello beautiful TWIMOers. As you probably know via Facebook, I got a job and while I'm super stoked I hope that I can continue to be your fearless leader as I embark on a new way to make the world my oyster. I will warn that the posts maybe come more sporadic depending on my work and dating schedule (my life is just so hectic. Sometimes I want to be like dudes, I don't want to go out with you, I just want to sit on my couch in sweatpants. Is that too much to ask?). So in a farewell to unemployment (which was actually pretty fun) I will give you my top ten things I will miss about being fun-employed and top 10 things I look forward to in being employed.

10 Things I will miss about being unemployed

1) Sleeping until I feel like waking up.

2) Creating a meaningful relationship with Oprah

3) Inventing new ways to be employed aka my accessories design business, Orange Magnolia, which I have yet to launch and may have to wait until I'm retired

4) Wearing my PJs all day

5) Hanging out in my office aka Starbucks. I have successfully visited every one in a 20 mile radius, so if you need to know a good SB in the ATL area, I'm your girl.

6) Hanging out with my co-worker, Clair the poodle (even if she does sleep all day)

7) Afternoon Naps

8) Spontaneous trips to Las Vegas, Vero Beach, FL, and Columbus, OH

9) My salary aka my parent's money

10) Updating you all on everything you missed while at work, like afternoon television programming and the mom at the mall scene.

10 Things I anticipate as being exciting about working

1) Finally being able to wear all those cute "work" clothes I've acquired over the last 7 years in hopes that I'd have a job or internship someday

2) Meeting new people (being unemployed is lonely)

3) Getting a DVR to continue my relationship with Oprah

4) Going to networking events and not having to say I'm unemployed!

5) Advancing my professional ambitions (I feel like I have to add that one to sound cool and responsible)

6) Hanging out in Mid-town ATL

7) Making my own MONEY even if it does mean I need to reevaluate my spending habits.

8) Checking finding a job off my life list and now concentrate on finding a husband or boyfriend, whichever would be fine I suppose.

9) Seeing if I really want to be an interior designer or if I should concentrate my brain pursuits on the GRE to get into a PhD program

10) Getting a business card that I didn't make, even if I like my card!!

Geeky Girls are fashionable too

During a recent paralysis from waiting for potential employers to get back to me with their decisions I discovered this blog called Academichic where 4 feminist studies PhD candidates blog about the outfits they wear for their academic pursuits. I think that I really enjoyed this blog because of how it was set up with the CV and class notes section. It really spoke to me. So I hope you can get your inner geeky fashionable self on with its help.

The dry spell is over...

Lately your fearless TWIMO leader is overwhelmed with her head spinning at about 400 mph (metaphorically of course. That would just been creepy if it were actually spinning like that), but thank goodness I have TWIMO to help me vent some of my anxieties, so for the next blog post I invite you to sit back, relax, and grab a cup of tea (perhaps with a shot of happiness) as you are transformed into my therapist (don't you wish you got paid $95 an hour to listen to me)....

So as you know I have been unemployed for the last almost 7 months. Well, now that it's 2011 suddenly people are hiring and I don't mean like one lonely firm, but lots of them. One day I had three interviews set up by noon. So as the saying goes, when it rains it pours, which makes Sarah a very wet girl. Anywhoo... out of the various places I've seen there is one I really like and they say that I'm at the top of their list, but they are still interviewing, which makes me nervous, and then I keep getting calls for work that people need immediately! How to I fend things off until I hear? I'm so confused.... And then if I fend them off, what if I don't get the job I want... then I'm back to unemployed. Advice? Love? Anything?

On the other side of my life, the relationship unemployment side (which is partially self inflicted) has also been booming. For instance I have a date tonight. In sticking with my new year's resolution I will try not to be judge-y and complain in my head about various things regarding said date, because obviously this has nothing to do with the said boy awkwardly trying to have a conversation with me, but with my own insecurities. I get it and I'm working on it. So, here's to free dinner and hopefully a nice guy that will be my friend if I don't like him more than that.

Ahhh, I feel better. When can we schedule for next week?

Tom tom toms

I get on these kicks where I really want a certain trendy item that I secretly think is ugly, like uggs or Ray-ban Wayfarers. So my current obsession are Toms. I'm trying to decide if they're too "crunchy granola" for me. What do you think? I mean I'm all about the humanitarian aspect of them, but I just can't decide if they're so ugly they're cute, you know like troll dolls. And obvi I would get this really cute pair:

The world has ended.... at least in Atlanta, but never fear red velvet pancakes are here.

The past three days I have been snowed in because of Atlanta's inability to deal with snow. I'm not trying to give them a raw deal. I get it. Why invest a ton of money in snow equipment when it rarely snows, but city of Atlanta, I dare say I think the world is changing and the South might just be the new Northeast. So the 6 inches of snow and 1/2 of ice that blanketed the city have had it at a stand still for the past three days and let me tell you, I'm going NUTS being stuck in my apartment. Sure, sure, I could have been using my time productively and finishing my graphic design project or applying to jobs (which I did a little of), but with 48 hours of seclusion I probably could have whipped out a lot more. Instead I watched an NCIS marathon and a show on food trucks, which brings me to my post.

On the food truck show they explored the different types of food trucks out there and one stuck out to me. It's a breakfast food truck called Buttermilk!!! Unfortunately for me (and you unless you're a cali girl) it's in LA.


How cute is that?? Anyway their top selling item are red velvet pancakes with maple buttercream frosting. Ever since I saw this I've been jones-ing for some and since I can't get out of my house, I found a recipe online at the Kitchy Kitchen Blog and stared at the pretty picture. So if you all can get out of your abodes please go make these and call me to tell me how they are... yum...

Thanking my lucky stars that I've already filled out the common app

This weekend I've spent an inordinate amount of time with high schoolers trying to get into college and I'm thanking my lucky stars (and my parents) for birthing me in the 80's when kids weren't so ambitious. I mean I've done the research, I've read about the Millennials and I've seen tinges of the professed generational personality in my own first wave peers, but WOW.... did I need to proctor SATs and give college interviews for my thesis...

On Saturday I participated in my Alma Mater's Interview Day, where alumni give applicants to the school informal interviews. I figure I don't have a lot of money to donate at this point in my life, but I have time, so that's how I give back. I mean they taught me some valuable skills at good ol' Wash U, like how to write well, so you all can read this well written blog. HAHA. Okay back to the point. The kids I interviewed (with the exception of one who was like most of the men I've gone on dates with in my recent dating life, AWKWARD) were fairly normal, which is surprising seeing as the guy assigning the interviews kept throwing the artsy kids at me, since I was the token artsy Wash U kid, as usual. Some of the other kids though! Wow! OVERACHIEVERS. Several interviewers were given multiple page resumes (I mean like 4 and 5 pagers). One kid had a perfect SAT score and was ranked first in his class of 300 and held a record in rubix cube solving. Others had done humanitarian work in Burma as sophomores in high school or ventured to Egypt to learn Arabic. When I was a sophomore in high school I was worried about the zit on my forehead and getting kissed as my new year's resolution. Oh, and another kid gave his interviewer not only a paper he'd written during a SUMMER program on the healthcare issue, BUT ALSO the first chapter to his novel. I'm sad to say that I don't know if myself or any other of my WashU friends would have gotten in today... How the times change.

Also, if nothing else my online dating life has come in handy. I used most of eharmony's profile questions as questions for my interviewees, such as what are three adjectives to describe yourself, what is one thing you wish people would notice about you, etc. I'm glad online dating has given me something, since it certainly hasn't resulted in a relationship or anything...

And lastly the best answer to a question I've heard in awhile:

Interviewer: If you could go to dinner with three people, dead or alive, who would they be?
Student: Ghandi, Lady Gaga and..... yes, definitely Jesus.

Amazing. Those darned Millennials will say the darnest things... Moral, followers of God and Gaga as they are...

So here I dedicate this post to all my WashU TWIMOers for paving the way for these overly zealous youth who will carry the torch of our Alma Mater into the future. I'm just sayin' that we better watch out, cause these kids might just surpass us on our way to greatness...

Darcy... I dare say.

Here's a little peek into my new grandma hobby, Cross stitching... It's so theraputic, especially when you're creating a stud like this.



Also much love to TWIMOer Britt and biggest Jane Austen fan EVER who received this as a Christmas gift!

TWIMO Unemployment Plan A, B, C, D.........ZZ

In my attempt to avoid doing my graphic design class homework I have decided to share this little gem with you that you may have missed on the news yesterday, since you were at your JOBS. It's okay, some people just don't have the joy of watching the news 4 times a day. Anyway this homeless man, Ted Williams, was discovered in Ohio (Columbus. WOOT, WOOT! to be exact) because of his radio announcer voice. After being discovered he was on Good Morning America, offered a job by the Cleveland Cavilers basketball team to be an announcer, given a free house, and is going to be reunited with his mother on the TODAY SHOW. Obviously this man is a genius. All I need to do is be discovered on the streets of Ohio for an unexpected talent. Do we think the fact that I can touch my nose with my tongue will work? So if you see me on the streets just remember it is my new job plan and OBVI a way to get TWIMO on the Today show. Oh and I will be making my hair fluffy like Ted's.

2011, hope it's like heaven!

Happy New Year TWIMO-ers! Hope you all had wonderful and safe new year's eves. Mine was fab. I went to Columbus to visit my lovely friends Courtney and Mandy and hang out with their friends. It was delightful and they even got me a cake for my birthday which I wasn't expecting at all! Love love my friends.

My lovely birthday cake from Kro-ghetto

Mandy and my new best friends

So, yes, your fearless TWIMO leader is another year older and hopefully wiser. I'm ready for 2011 so BRING IT! Have you all made your resolutions and eaten your pork and sauerkraut for wealth, health, and happiness (and I don't care if you're not German or from the Midwest and have never heard of this tradition. You must do it because I said so)?

Nom, nom, nom

Here are my resolutions:

1. Be less judge-y of people, particularly the male variety that I go on dates with.

2. Get high school skinny for the two weddings I am attending in June. (obvi I needed the traditional weight loss resolution)

3. Spend less time on facebook and more time on employment search

4. Get kissed (okay, okay this is a fake resolution, but I've found New Year's entries from my journals growing up that include this. I was pretty stoked when it finally happened after resoluting it for so many years)

5. Get TWIMO on the Today show.

Happy New Year all! I hope 2011 is your best year yet!