Phew! That was a long interview. Let me correct myself: the interview itself wasn’t long, the WRITING TEST afterwards was. I think it went well, with the exception of my glaring lack of journalistic experience, but my digital photography and web editing skills may have evened out the scales. I guess we’ll see. Apparently I will hear within two weeks, which is “fast” for government.<\/p>\n
It would be neat to have a job where I get to 1) use my writing skills, 2) get a by-line in a published periodical, 3) do something creative, even if it’s just taking photos and the odd bit of photoshoppery. And it would certainly be cool to have a PERMANENT position at this level, since I would no longer live in fear of returning to my home position, which is not only low-paying, but also somewhat like being in Hell. On the plus side, if I ever did get bumped back down to that level, I would have an awesome and unarguable reason for quitting the Office forever. Hmm.<\/p>\n
Did manage to go to yoga last night. Very proud of myself, although the studio is closing for two weeks for a film shoot and to have the floors replaced, which is inconvenient for consistent usage. Am very sore today, especially through the shoulders and chest. Discovered to my horror *exactly* how much weight I have put on during such poses as Sarvangasana<\/a> (shoulder stand, where your belly is, quite literally, in your face) and Halasana<\/a> (the Plough, where your feet go over your head while you are lying down and suddenly you’re *breathing* your stomach). If anyone out there is wondering if they might be overweight, do one of these poses, and you will know for sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Phew! That was a long interview. Let me correct myself: the interview itself wasn’t long, the WRITING TEST afterwards was. I think it went well, with the exception of my glaring lack of journalistic experience, but my digital photography and web editing skills may have evened out the scales. I guess we’ll see. Apparently I […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}