Cornrows to a job interview?

I got my hair done up yesterday, and as luck would have it I got a call today from the Gap corporation asking me for an interview on Monday. The job is within the corporate offices in downtown San Francisco.This is a white collar job and I had a question of the blogosphere.

Okay, so I know that I'm not supposed to work for the Gap. They are evil. They are multinational hell. Most important they are whitebread. As whitey-white bread milk-toast-ish as they can be. And that is not me. Never has been, never will be.

However...One very important point I need to make. I am unemployed. Been unemployed now for nearly 8 months. That said, I like money. Not that I am saying that I couldn't live without it, but lets be honest. Money does make things a whole heck of alot easier. That and I could really use some. Not a whole lot, just enough on a regular basis. What I am basically trying to say is that in the end, principles, morals and pride have very little bearing on your professional and fiscal future.

Now that I have made my point,What I am trying to say...in so many words, should I take out my cornrows, a mere 4 days after having them put in for a face-to-face interview?

Okay, So I know that the next question you'll probably ask... well if you're out of work why in the hell did you get your hair done like that if you knew you were interviewing!?!?!
I'll accept that it seems like a frivilous thing to spend money on when you don't have work. Honestly? The money was a present. Plus, going to the hair salon was something I could do for myself. And I haven't done for myself in nearly 8 or 9 months since I quit my job to finish school. I think that I am allowed one or two frivilous items, considering that I haven't been shopping or bought many different odd and random things for myself in that time.

So now that I've answered that burning question, In your comment please state:
1. Yes - (take out cornrows) or No - (leave them in)
2. Your reason why. (breif... about 5 sentences or less...)

If you have any other questions, I'll be happy to answer them.

Just so you know, normally when I go to interviews I would pull my hair back into a bun(as it can sometimes be unruly) and wear nerdy/smart - looking glasses.

I'm just looking for some input. I figured that the blogosphere might have some good info.

Thanks!

>>Update: I ended up taking them down, anyway. so oh-well.

negligent in my blogger duities

Nothing to explain. Simply that I am lazy. (seems to be the standard explination lately)

You know when you have too much time and nothing gets done? exactly. I knew you knew me well.

Regardless, I finished school. Graduated. Offically. I am a mistress now. a professional mistress.
Unfortunately this means that I actually have to go and get a job. No more hiding out in school. Although the prospect of staying in school forever makes some sense. No? Nevertheless I have to learn how to take the psychological abuse of rejection that the working world seems to enjoy dolling out to me.

News: Mom got a new knee, and a new attitude adjustment. She's now a full fleged weenie. (not just a half...) and I am being the good daughter and calling her names and generally making her hate me. (ohh fun!)

I am still unemployed, but hopeful that my current economic state will not interefere in my lifelong desire to get a regular paycheck for investigating my navel. Maybe I'll become a writer.

No new political statements for inflaming the public, nor enticting riot. Although I haven't really been anything more than the apathetic middle class american who has been wooed by reality tv and ansetized by pop-cultre and the newest esteem shredding fashion trend.

ah. such is life. so indulgent.

Lay, Skilling convicted in Enron collapse - Yahoo! News

Lay, Skilling convicted in Enron collapse

i am SO happy I am doing a little dance. FELONS!!! i hope that they send them to pellican bay. or san quentin.

But I know they wont. It would still be nice... a girl can dream. Ahhhh..... Ken Lay would have to be some big burly bald man's bitch.

oohh... that makes me happy...

>>Update: 7/11/06 - Are you thinking what I am thinking? This seems a little convienent, doesnt it? And it doesn't hurt that the timing of his death vacates the Guilty verdict....hmmmm.... I bet he shows up in Argentina in a few years.

monzy.com » Bust a Nut

monzy.com » Bust a Nut

I didn't want to believe that it was true. That a food company would be soooo phenomenally stupid to put something like this out there... Until it was found for me...

I thought that it was crazy too. Who would put an ad campagin out with "bust a nut" as the tag line.


cornNuts did.

and they knew what they were doing....look at these lyrics:

Go to your room and lock the door,
‘Cause when you try it once you’ll wanna try it some more!
Size doesn’t matter and that’s a fact,
It might be small, but it’s a big impact! Bust a nut! Bust a nut!
Grab a bag of Corn Nuts™ and bust a nut!
They’re lightly toasted and hard as well,
Enjoy yourself, we won’t tell… Everybody does it, they like it a lot,
You can do it at school , just don’t get caught!
It takes a few minutes, if you don’t delay;
Take your time and make it last all day!

oh damn.

Current TV // Google Current - Venetian: Conor // Cantaloupe

Current TV // Google Current - Venetian: Conor // Cantaloupe

even more Colbert --- ahhhh.... bask in it... the glow....

Crooks and Liars

Oh How irony and snark have become the means of communication.

Is news-speak really the means by which we must create the subterfuge to the truth.

Crooks and Liars - Colbert Does the White House Correspondents' dinner

Colbert, who spoke in the guise of his talk show character, who ostensibly supports the president strongly, urged Bush to ignore his low approval ratings, saying they were based on reality, “and reality has a well-known liberal bias.”

He attacked those in the press who claim that the shake-up at the White House was merely re-arranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. “This administration is soaring, not sinking,” he said. “If anything, they are re-arranging the deck chairs on the Hindenburg.”

From Editor & Publisher

Oh. How . Lovely. Makes me sigh. From fear, and from joy.

State of the Blogosphere, and the singularity principle

There was a recent meeting that I went to for the AERA (American Education Reasearch Association) where I was introducted to Mr. JayCross and his ideology of INformal learning (informL.com)

what it brought me to was a new perspective of the rapid pace at whcih we are actualy acquiring new knowledge. Not through a means of actual storage within our own minds, but a new way to access that information.

Regardless this broughtme to somethin ele. Ray Kurzweil: and his website http://www.kurzweilai.net/
it got me interested even more in the singularity summit...what I am trying to say is that I knew this was coming, it has been something that I have known about for some time... the singularity event. That time in our biological history when we reach that event horizon and the pass throught it. Now I'm not sure if this is somehitng that is going to happen in an effortless manner, but it is something that is coming (unavoidably).

As evidence State of the Blogosphere, On Blogosphere Growth
Just take a look at how the parabolic growth of the blogosphere has been growing... christ to think that I am supposed to be an old hand at this having started back in 2002... that's what scares me... I'm old school... old news, and yet I'm supposed to be on the bleeding edge of all of this... truly there are some times when it begins to feel like a little much.

today is one of those days.

I did it...I'm so proud of my work

After nearly 2 and half weeks of development from scratch, I was able to finally create an online portfolio. I don't have any clue as to hwo effective it will be, but take a look, and tell me what you think.

Kira's Online Portfolio. I'm pretty proud of the fact that I built this in flash, and was able to add all of the simple animations. Its nothing like some of the other stuff that I've seen, but It'll prove its point when it's necessary...I hope

geeze is this what pride feels like? I wouldn't really know ;)

HE LOOKS LIKE.... The Morbid Game of Psychoanalyzing Strangers in Pictures

HE LOOKS LIKE.... The Morbid Game of Psychoanalyzing Strangers in Pictures

I laughed, I cried, I even peed a little.


(when you read lynard Skynard you'll understand)

Bring back that loooooovin feeling

An article that a friend wrote about the alarming rate of growth that is happening on a daily basis on the internet.

Its one of those things that we all take for granted. That things are going to keep moving, that the perpetual machine that is the internet, and its organic nature, is not only desireable but necessary. Now I'm not arguing that it isn't. In fact I believe that we are reaching a critical mass, where the amount of bullshit and the amount to information cannot move on as they have reached a nexus. (hence web2.0)

But is this viral growth really a good thing? It's called viral for a reason, for it's unfortunate and uncontrollable nature. If you actually compare the amount to bullshit that you read on a daily basis and the actual amount of quality work you read or perform... its kinda sad.
Does this mean that we are what we consume? Really? cause if so I think that most of us should be full-up with porn by now.

then again, maybe not!

I have reaquainted myself with my fast

I soooo hate myself for loving this commercial, IF i didn't already own a VW golf myself, and completely understood this from a feminine perspective....

sometimes...

...Update: You can't really purchase a "fast" icon. You can only get one when you buy a new VW. Or you can take your chances with trying to buy one off of e-bay. They are auctioning off at around $250...

....PPS Update: you can learn more from Project Fast. (VW's commercial site about makingFriendsWithYourFast)

Punxsutawney Phil

so... according to an overgrown hamster we are going to have to suffer through 6 more weeks of cold and dismal weather.

yay.

see my joy?

Honestly who came up with this idea? Some seriously whacked out white people stand out in the cold, stick they're hands into the burrough of a rather large burowwing animal with long sharp teeth, yank him out and then hold him aloft of their heads declaring "Winter for 6 more weeks!!" or "No More Winter!! Yay!"

Doesn't make sense to me. But then again, there is little that I do out of habit that really makes sense to me anymore.

baaaaadddd habits...

okay...
so now that I'm merely waiting until I go back to school, I find that what tends to happen is that I get really, really bored. SO when I get bored, I go into the kitchen. And when I go into the kitchen, I find something to do. and that something to do normally includes food.

the strange part is that it seems to include alot of baking . So, really not such a hot thing. Nor is it all that good since my mother seems to think that it's a really great idea to give me all of her Food and Wine magazines. The most recent one that she gave me was the chocolate issue.

damn her....I know that she does it because I've been baking all of these lovely sweet and tasty treats, but all in all...damn her. She's hooked me line and sinker. I mean just look at that. I certianly can't say no to such a lovely chocolatly-peanut-buttery-gooey filled confectio/cake? can you? [and if you can - you're lying to yourself]

anyway... the point. 'twas my birthday yesterday, so I took stock (if only breifly) to determine what in the hell is actually going on.

• Me: 29. Female. 5'10.5" (1.77 meters) weight...decline to state but embarrasing all the same
• Location: same as ever (christ...even in the freakin room that I was nursed in....this can't be good)
• Prospects: not really looking, and not even sure of what prospects I should be looking for.
• Relationships: many, and all still fruitful, insightfull, friendly and happy. ( i hope)
• Hobbies: Cooking, eating, sharing my baked goods...uh...waiting for world peace to break out.
• Reverse Obit written?: nope. Don't like to think about it... too morbid.
• Life's goal?: uh... well this one is a tough one. Because at first I thought that it was going to be grow up to be a astronaut. ( I was 5) then it changed into being a world famous actress... (I was 13) then it changed into a succesful Lawyer (I was 19) now... well now I'm not even sure If its a good idea to have a life's goal in terms of a professional carrer. So I'm going to word that last question..... shitty one anyway.
• Number of Life's "must-do" items checked off: uh... I think about 5 or 6 of them. Actually I make up the list as I go. I still think getting to meet Archbishop Desmond Tutu still ranks higest and that one was a complete chance accident.

So when I look back at the previous years, most of it results in alot of wistful memories of when I was somewhere with someone doing something I probably should know better than to be doing, (at least in public.) Which when you take account of it shouldn't be all that bad. Actually I'm very proud of what I've almost accomplished and what I have been able to do.

This was going to be a long and drawn out sob-fest...poor me, nearly 30 and still going nowhere with nothing to show. But I actually do have alot to show for, the only difference is that now I have a tad more perspective than I did have approximately a year ago. I'm thankful for the chance to sit on my ass now, although I know I'm far from being done with not sitting on my ass and really spending more time in my life apologizing for being an ass (and most likely in public.) And as a "prospect" per-se, that doesn't seem so bad.


Because they're only called "Bad Habits" if someone else didn't get jealous while you were caught doing it.

wanted to say...

Belated Happy Channuka, and Merry New Year!
me? you ask, I'm busy living in SF still, not working and going back to school, and attempting right now to drink my weight in champagne!!!


wishing you luck, love and lots of fun for 2006!!!

I've been fish-hooked...

You ever notice that when you least expect it, you find that you get hooked into whatever the popular meme is for the day?

I have prided myself on trying so damned hard not being part of the main-stream, simply because I have never been considered, nor could ever really be accepted as part of the american mainstream...regardless, what I mean to say is that I'm getting swept up in the whole shebang just as much as the next person.

Sure I couldn't be happier that lewis "scotter" libby has been indicted.(although we'll have to have a discussion why a grown man would insist on being called "scooter") And I should be doing backflips about the fact that the republican party is in a backslide...and believe me I'm chuffed... but what I can't escape is this purely San Franciscian mind-set of "its too expensive to live here-syndrome"

At this rate all the radicals will be chased out, and we'll be left with Sans Colored-Folk-isco. its depressing. what was once a town where "people" lived is quickly becoming a sanitized version of itself. I miss the Market/Polk street night-time strip of hookers, trannies, pushers and pimps. I miss the fact that on the weekend the city belonged to the working class folk who had to stay nearby to where they worked simply because they didn't have transportation.

its not the same now. I want it all back. but I can't have it. I've been looking into buying a home. That once was a possibilty...maybe for my mother, but most certianly NOT for me. There is no chance in hell that this market will ever slow down, there is simply only so much you can build on in a 7x7 square mile area. What is really killing me is the fact that I might be forced to move to surburbia simply because its what I can afford, not because I want to escape the vaguaries of the city. I love the dingy-ness, the reality, the general slime that is san francisco (although that is quickly depeleting as well.)

Another thing...(and I know that I've ranted about this before, but your fault for reading) The median income in san francisco to qualify for Assistance for a first time home buyer is approximately $113k a year. Can you believe that bullshit?

its enough to make a girl scream. And the worst part about it, I shouldn't even be thinking about this bullshit. but I am because someone somewhere put this damned bug in my ear about buying a home and somehow it's managed to get stuck. There isn't much that I can do now but pine. or whine..or both.

shit.