Sophia, you might also want to check and see if any part of the building besides your apartment is on your electrical circuit. Not sure exactly how you'd check that. (Your landlord might tell you, but s/he might not know or might just tell you that only your apartment is on your circuit just so you'll leave him alone.)
Maybe your electric company could tell you. Or maybe you could call them and just tell them your electricity consumption is way higher and you aren't doing anything different - they might help you investigate.
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clearly we do not have magic in our hearts.
That's the cheapest excuse I've ever read.
That's just sloppy graphic design. They need to not be defensive about it.
I may just be in a pessimistic mood. If so, that's only because I've been paying attention.
Is it a sad statement that I found this inspiring? Uplifting, even?
You wouldn't believe the vengeance a traumatized goat can wreak.
Um, actually, I would. You see, there was this time a friend was preparing a meal for a group and one of the main courses was goat. Only, the goat hadn't been killed yet. Uh huh. Downhill from there ...
Business formal question:
I have a suit. It's a size 6 and the tags are still on it. Moving on. It's a pretty theoretical question, since I don't see myself hitting the stores before my next interview, but if I were looking to find a skirt or pair of pants to most businesslikely go with my black linen Nehru-like jacket, what colours are best? Given the black-matching nightmare, of course.
My idea of business dress includes fire engine red, but judging from the email my recruiter sent, I'm some sort of professional Jezebel in that way. In fact, recruiter says "conservative colored (black, blue, etc.)".
Currently, in a step down from what I consider suited, I've been interviewing either in black or grey (funereal, even for me) or a vintage shantung number in beige and blues.
You can match black or grey to it in that setting.
I've been listening to this and giggling today. It's a mp3 snippet of a recent performance at the Met where a soprano briefly loses control of her vocal cords: [link]
I'd go with a grey skirt, ita.
You can match black or grey to it in that setting.
I am so persnickety about matching blacks that I wouldn't consider it business formal.
My grey skirt is the one I'd been planning on wearing with it, but it's so damned bleak! Bleaker than all black, somehow. I guess I should just get over myself and realise that business formal isn't my style, so I should stop trying to find a way to force the square peg on pretty much no budget at all.
