Doing interviews in my socks.

Lockdown progress report for May 15, 2020.

Total words: 2,050 (back in the saddle!!!)
Manuscript total: 67,802 (gulp… and we haven’t even really gotten rolling yet)

At last I had a job interview this week. It was for middle school, not for high school, but it was at a school that I really love, so I’m crossing my fingers that I’ll get called back for a Part 2 interview.

Meanwhile, my second-term guiding teacher let me know that someone on the team at that school will be stepping down, and would I be interested in the vacancy? Hells yes I would! Working with twelfth graders at a project-based learning school ten minutes from home??! Are you even kidding?

So here’s crossing my fingers that something will happen with one of these two job openings.

I finally got to wear my interview clothes.

Back around February, LT bought me a late Christmas gift of a complete interview suit. Black blazer, black pants, blue button-down. I’m telling you, I look sharp.

(Quarantine hair notwithstanding.)

So on Wednesday, when I finished preparing for my interview like a crazy person (nine pages of notes for a fifteen minute interview, yup), I put on that suit and even put product in my hair — a lockdown first.

But what to do about my feet?? Normally, I would wear some sharp black shoes that I picked up for $15 in the boys’ department at Macy’s, but we are a no-shoes-inside-the-house kind of place where I live.

And in a Zoom interview, is anyone really going to see your feet? No. They’re not going to see your legs, either, but I wore my nice black pants anyway, because I didn’t want to be that Good Morning America reporter who got caught by the Internet not wearing any pants while recording from home.

So I did the interview in my suit… and sock feet.

It’s okay. The principal was in a workout tank top and her kids were running around in the background. The interim superintendent was looking very SoCal, wearing expensive shades in her sunny backyard.

Interviewing in the time of COVID-19, right?

Wish me luck that I’ll be wearing that interview suit again soon for to talk with the principal about that the twelfth grade position my GT mentioned…