The Art of the Interview / Shutdown Shit

 As we all get older, we start to wonder "is this how interviews were supposed to be?"

I mean, I remember my first job after VCU only being one interview, and then starting work in no more than 2-3 weeks.

Every on I've had after that? One interview with the office heads, then one with their director. Then you wait for a response for a few weeks. Then you get offered the job. A process that often can take 1-2 months, depending on when you hear back from the initial job announcement. 

Is this what we signed up for? This reminds me of that one video that the dude from Blue's Clues made about why he left the show. No, it's not bc he went to jail, even though we all thought he did. It was because he went to university. Oh the irony. Or is better to say, similarity? Syntax isn't important right now.

One thing that I've learned about the art of the interview is you kind of have to be having an out of body experience. Rather than being possessed by the ghost that haunts your living space or whatever, you almost have to be everybody but yourself. You have to do whatever it takes for you to embody whatever mundane qualities that they're looking for (mundane, because there are only so many different ways to ask the same question about the same thing for 20-30 minutes.) Eye contact matters. Posture, unfortunately, matters. Dress matters! It's ok if you don't want to wear a tie for the second interview, I just wore a sweater over my Nordstrom button down that I got from Goodwill (which was a STEAL). Concise answers matter. It really comes down to delivery. 

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Now onto the shutdown...

Can we really even be surprised? 

It's the same shit every year. Gridlock in both chambers of Congress. A defense bill that should have already been passed gets nixed by individuals who shouldn't have the right to represent any sort of body politic. The House leaving a day early? It's like they don't even want to pretend they give a fuck, so it seems.

The good? A WaPo article makes claim that the probability of a stop gap is there, which is good until the end of October. Then the shenanigans start again. The bad? It's all bad honestly. The question is when are we going to have non delusional leaders who aren't being led by a man who may or may not be (he def is) a convicted felon? 

Having an opinion on American politics hoy en dia isn't even worth it. You are either a libtard, a fascist, or a communist. Hell, they changed it from being a communist to a socialist actually! It's polarization has turned our already inept leaders into defunct losers, or just showing that they were always that way in the first place.

Alas, I shall enjoy my coffee on this rainy DC day, and revel in the fact that I am still the most interesting and attractive man in this backwards city. Carry the hell on...