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I heard back from one of my top-choice companies on Thursday and had a half-hour phone interview that went really well. And then they called back on Friday to schedule an in-person interview down in Des Moines for next Friday (the 31st). I’m really super excited. :) However, now that I’ve scheduled my first in-person interview, I have come to the realization that I don’t have what I’m going to consider appropriate interview attire (at least for the types of jobs I’m applying for). Dana and I are going to have to go shopping sometime this week. I’m going to need an entirely new outfit, right down to the shoes. My brown Birkenstocks are showing their age on top and literally falling to pieces on the bottom. My black dress shoes are also falling apart on the bottom (there’s a huge water-attracting hole in the right one), plus they’ve become nastily salt-bleached during our last bout with Mother Nature. I consider it an investment, though. If an outfit can help me get a decent paying job doing what I want to do, it will be entirely worth it. Plus, it’ll eventually work its way into work attire.

My schedule this week is going to be frustratingly busy. I’m going to want to spend at least one or two evenings worrying about the interview (shopping, figuring out how to make an impromptu paper portfolio out of websites, etc). Unfortunately, I need to get a nearly-final draft of my creative component to my major professor by Monday, and then a really-nearly-final draft to the rest of my committee on Friday. Plus I have a big project (design a multiple-week class unit for a technical communication course and defend your decisions in a too-long report) due on Thursday that I haven’t really even begun. I have a good idea as to what I want to do the project on, but I’ve no idea how quickly that will translate into a finished product.

So how am I starting off this week of business? Drunk, probably. Dana and I went out last night and had a few too many whilst playing pool at the place down the street, and Kara is coming up to go out with us tonight. I’m going to try to get a couple of hours of stuff done before she gets here, and then all day tomorrow is going to have to be creative component time. And the second I finish, it becomes homework time. And the second I finish that, it becomes creative component/interview preparation time.

Oh! I almost forgot to mention the real reason I decided to update. It’s pretty much official that I’ll be moving across the hall in early- to mid-May. Dana and I took a look at the apartment Friday morning and decided it met my needs, and then my landlord approved of the proposal via email Friday afternoon. Dana says I’m not allowed to move the bar. Or the shopping cart. Or the giant red flag I found in the street. The giant orange and green fish hanging on my wall will probably take additional negotiation. Obviously, the woman has no design taste. ;)