Thanks, all!
Sophia, I've made it successfully with a stick blender before. You can do it!
Nothing worse than a monster who thinks he's right with God.
Mal ,'Heart Of Gold'
Natter 77: I miss my friends. I miss my enemies. I miss the people I talked to every day.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
JenP - Mar 31, 2021 4:18:33 pm PDT #5067 of 30000
-t - Mar 31, 2021 4:26:13 pm PDT #5068 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
You can get good results making mayo with a stick blender and not being super careful with the traditionally fiddly bits - you don't necessarily have dribble in a thin stream of oil while you blend, , for example, but can basically put everything in a jar and blend it up and still get mayonnaise. Google "easy homemade mayo" and enjoy!
DavidS - Mar 31, 2021 4:48:07 pm PDT #5069 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Hec, I have my fingers crossed that something comes through for Matilda.
She's got a Zoom job interview at 5:20 PST! Wish her some -ma, Buffistas! She needs a lift.
JZ - Mar 31, 2021 4:56:23 pm PDT #5070 of 30000
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
I'm so sorry, Hil. How incredibly difficult. The distance and being cut off from the rituals that sustain you make the loss so much harder.
25 minutes to the interview! Matilda spent some time fiddling with the lighting to get it just right.
-t - Mar 31, 2021 5:09:45 pm PDT #5071 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Interview~ma!
Jesse - Mar 31, 2021 5:15:52 pm PDT #5072 of 30000
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Good luck, Matilda!!
DavidS - Mar 31, 2021 6:01:14 pm PDT #5073 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The interview went pretty well.
She was stumped on the first question - "What are your assets?" - because she's naturally very modest and hates to brag about herself.
I told her I would teach her some ways to address this question in the future without sounding braggy.
But she did much better when they asked about specific scenarios. (She has, after all, done a lot of camps, and dealt with a fair amount of kids both in babysitting and CIT training.)
They said she could send them an email if she had anything further to say.
And after we talked about it we thought there were three things she would like to address which didn't come up in the interview. So I told her how to do a follow-up email, and we made sure she wrote everything in her own voice, and she sent that in.
I also taught her how to do a subject header that would allow somebody in their department to properly route her response.
JenP - Mar 31, 2021 6:19:19 pm PDT #5074 of 30000
Nice, Matilda!
-t - Mar 31, 2021 6:21:45 pm PDT #5075 of 30000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That sounds like an excellent experience
DavidS - Mar 31, 2021 6:33:45 pm PDT #5076 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
The scenario they asked was: "How would you handle kids at the end of the day to get ready for pickup?"
And she said, "I'd call all the kids together, and I'd have them empty all the sand out of their shoes. Then I'd have them put away what was left of their lunch, or throw away the garbage. Then we'd do a headcount, and then I'd make sure they all went to the bathroom. And then I'd do a second headcount after we lined them all up. If anybody was missing, I'd have one counselor stay with the line and then go find the kid in the bathroom."
And the interviewer said, "Oh, she's good!"