Hee, I wasn’t on AIM to talk wardrobe with Jeanne lastnight, because I was actually figuring out my wardrobe at the mall.  I had, on hand, these brown herringbone pants, and also this corduroy blazer, in chocolate.  I’d worn the pants with a basic brown shirt to the funeral, but it looked much frumpy-dumpier than I wanted to look at the interview. The manager at Lame Giant helped me out, steering me away from a white shirt (since the pants are cream/brown) and instead to a cream-colored camisole top, a nice belt, and a necklace, and sent me home to try it camisole/short or camisole/blazer. (And, dammit! LB.com is down, or something, because I was going to have links to that, too…) Anyway, the necklace is silver wirey type, withchunky stones in shades of orange, brown, etc. It’s actually called "Shades of coral," but the pic online looks more symmetrical, and longer than it does on me. (Oh, hey! Their site is down, but I still have the link to the necklace, so maybe it will work when this posts.) I wanted to read "professional, not stuffy, and a touch creative" and I think that all that together works…

THen I started freaking out, more. I searched their staff directory for the specific position, and found no one listed. I did find an "Admin assistant/data specialist" and a straight up "instructional technologist," so now I’m feeling a littler nervous. I don’t want an 8/hr job, you know? And I wouldn’t take it if that were the case. On the other hand, it DID require a "bachelor’s degree, minimum" which reads to me "but we’d like more…" and admin assistants don’t usually require a bachelor’s, right?  I just have zero idea of what to expect compensation wise,a nd will absolutely die if they ask ME about it, because I have zero clue what the position should pay, you know? I’m thinking because it’s higher ed, they won’t ask me my salary requirements, but still, that freaks me out.

I did do a dry run of getting there, figuring out the parking, the building, all of that, which is way easier than dealing with UM (which is a good 5x bigger than this place, but still… no surprises, you know?)