I love Gail Collins so much, she makes reading about the bank bailout fun.
“One problem with the government plan is that nobody is ever going to have any confidence in a savior called “public-private investment fund.” The term aggregator bank has been floated around; the Treasury Department should consider stealing it, since it sounds like a kind of Transformer. In a crisis, Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner could just yell “Aggregator, we need help!” And a normal-looking office building would instantly change into an enormous avenger who clumps down the street squashing the nasty little toxic assets that scurry around, making unpleasant squeaks.”
Transformers! It’s all so much clearer now.
So, I’m being called in for a second interview on the job thing. This is what I ended up wearing to the first interview:
Yeah, so I didn’t actually iron any of that. I didn’t want to appear snooty. The skirt is wool, anyway. My mom made it for me when I was in college. Black and white houndstooth never goes out of style, except when it does, but then you just wait a couple of years and, bam! You hope it still fits.
Anyway, we’re on a little impromptu visit up to San Francisco this weekend and man, did I need to get out of the house. The first hotel room we got was terrific but when Jack woke up at 5:00 a.m. to pee he said he felt like he’d walked into an episode of C.S.I. Miami:
Honestly, I could see his point. After the blood spatter expert finishes up you just hose the place down, right?
Jack, never one to shy away from testing the front desk help, got us moved to a different room with a less hospitalized bathroom. While we waited with the other tourists in Union Square, someone got a pretzel.
“Also, if you just prop up dead banks, they could turn into zombie banks. That is definitely something you want to avoid. Imagine walking down the street and there’s a zombie bank plunked on the corner, gazing emptily at the passing traffic and making strange grunting noises. Occasionally, it will snatch up some pedestrians and feed them to the toxic assets.”
And now, to Chinatown for stink bombs!
Awesome skirt. The outfit would scream HOT with a black patent leather belt and unbuttoning one more button on your shirt and some chunky jewelry. Also, you have great legs: you could hem the skirt a wee bit shorter–at your knees–and show off those gams.
Put on a red sweater set and red shoes and you could wear the skirt to your second interview.
Again, great skirt.
great skirt! the whole ‘sexy secretary thing’ could spring to mind.:)
yum. i want a big salty hunk of dough.
The bathroom… I think a big part of the problem, aside from its unnecessary cavernousness and clinical looking walls, are the flourescent lights. Like… way too big and way too many. Gives one that “zombie bank” look at the 5am peeing, I don’t blame Jack a bit for wanting a new room.
You look great, and I do agree that taking the skirt a little shorter would make it look even better.
I love houndstooth!
And I’m actually okay with that bathroom, too. Nothing can really outdo the time I was on vacation with my parents and my mom found a chicken bone wrapped in HAIR in the shower. That was the same vacation I got sick from the hotel’s minestrone soup… ooogh.
Man, those shoes are awesome, too. Are those Clarks?
Thanks, everybody! Yeah, I need a good belt. The shoes are Børn.
I love the outfit (I happen to think you always dress really nicely though) You pull of the effortless yet stylish look very well.
1. Was the second bathroom lots better? If so, Bravo for Jack!
2. I second the red (or acid greeeen)sweater set with that skirt, which is so very sympatico. You could swing a beatnik theme with it.
My Mom stopped sewing for me when I was five. After that she was busy with Single-Momming and cocaine.
Good luck on the job!
3. I want Jackson’s hoodie, but in a grown-up size, and maybe with Sally instead.
Wait … You guys moved to a different room because of the ambiance of the bathroom?
Wow.
I love Gail Collins too. That was a great column.
We were in Union Square on Saturday. It would have been so awesome to run into you. I was the mom paying more attention to her iphone then her kids sliding down the banisters. Did you see me?
I know! I adore Gail Collins. That zombie bank thing slayed me.
Also, that houndstooth skirt is killah. Of COURSE you got called back for a second interview. And you know what that’s about, right? That’s where they try to sell *you* on the job.
Great outfit. It looks very smart without looking like you’re trying too hard. But, I fear I’ve missed something. I haven’t been keeping up with my blog reading and now I am completely lost. Are you out of work now? Are you no longer working for your lovely husband’s company? Maybe I should be reading the archives in order to answer these questions myself.
No jacket?
Clearly you and your hubby have never used the bathrooms in Chinatown. Wisely.
CSI is something Bossy can’t reference enough. Girlie, you have Bossy’s heart. Speaking of hearts…
Those Transformers are going to be the next big thing. Bigger than Elmo.
That skirt? Gorgeous. And how much do I hate you that you can still fit in something from college?
I love the last picture. There is something very relaxed and endearing about your smile.
Excellent, classic skirt. Your mom did good.
Good luck on the 2nd interview. I bet your mom would want you to iron your shirt this time!
And now I yearn, yeeeaaarrn, for San Francisco. Also, a pretzel.
That’s what I tell my kids about all the clothes of mine that have taken over their unused closets. Clothes always come back in style; keeping your weight to continue wearing them is the hard part. Good luck on the job prospect.
Love, love the shoes and I can not tell you how impressed I am that you can still fit into a skirt you wore in college. You could have gone a lifetime without sharing that. Good luck on the second interview.
*sigh* I love San Francisco and especially Chinatown.
The shoes definitely make the outfit hot, in a lipstick librarian kinda way.
Looove the skirt — made one like that myself last fall, can't wait to break it out again!
B&W; houndstooth is ever-so-chic. You rock it, Mrs. K.
Chinatown!
I’m catching up after being out of the country/sick/ingested by a zombie bank (just kidding about the bank thang).
But who would’ve guessed that I was wandering around Chinatown the same day you were!
Was showing my visiting Israeli cousins what we Norcalifornians do on our days off. Didn’t mention that I’d not been to Chinatown since – oh hell – probably 1986, when Devon and I had our first it’s-not-really-a-date-because-you’re-my-roommate’s-sort-of-girlfriend.
But it was fun. Especially the fortune cookie factory. Please tell me you guys didn’t miss the fortune cookie factory? ‘Cause if you did, you’re going to have to come back and do it all over again.