I really want this internship. I really, really want this internship. I didn't think I would want this internship this badly, but I really want this internship.
I want to spend the summer in DC. I want to work in an office environment where I can wear nice clothes. I want to do something that makes a difference. I want to jump-start my life, or at least my career. I want to work for an organization that helps people, that makes a difference in the world. I want to meet new people. I want to be a tourist and visit all those "our nation's capital" memorials and museums and shrines. I want to see my friends who live there. I want to be able to at least pretend there's a possibility of me getting a job when I graduate. I want to believe I'll be able to work in the field I want to when I graduate. I want to tell myself that I'll make it to Afghanistan soon, that I'll find a job that will take me there and that this internship will help.
I don't particularly want to spend two to three months living on my friend's couch, or to be away from my cats (i.e. my babies) for a whole summer, or to be paying rent and utilities here while I'm living there, but I still really want this internship.
Mostly because it will fool me into believing that I might have a job offer waiting form me this time next year if I get this internship and it goes well. Or at least I'll have some experience to offer other potential employers.
I really want this internship.
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Thursday, April 14, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Vintage Jade
When it comes to style and fashion, I'm pretty much clueless. If I like something, I'll wear it, but not without an immense amount of staring in the mirror and deliberating the relative fashionable-ness of it (or not).
Considering that for the past few years I've been buried in a small rural town in Illinois working in a kitchen, I've paid even less attention to fashionable clothes than usual. As a result, on the off chance that I do manage to get that internship in Washington, DC this summer, I realized that I won't have any appropriate work clothes to wear. Any that I already own are from my last year of college or earlier, which puts them firmly out of style. This has led me to do quite a bit of research on style/clothes/fashion trends over the past few days. I'm out of practice when it comes to business casual, office-appropriate outfits so I've been trying to remedy that through internet research.
Unfortunately, due to my limited (or more accurately, non-existent) budget, even if I do get the internship and head out for some shopping, at best I would be able to buy a few items and only for extremely reduced prices. But with me being me, that hasn't stopped me from admiring and dreaming! During the course of my research I've come across quite a few separate pieces as well as complete outfits that immediately had me salivating.
Oh, to be rich...
The outfit below is one of them. I love absolutely everything about this dress, from the rich vivid green to the asymmetrical draping across the chest to the traditional tea length. I also love the choice of shoes. Paired with this dress, the shoes add to the classic 1930's feel of the outfit. That happens to be a period I adore stylistically, so everything about this looks appeals to me.
Considering that for the past few years I've been buried in a small rural town in Illinois working in a kitchen, I've paid even less attention to fashionable clothes than usual. As a result, on the off chance that I do manage to get that internship in Washington, DC this summer, I realized that I won't have any appropriate work clothes to wear. Any that I already own are from my last year of college or earlier, which puts them firmly out of style. This has led me to do quite a bit of research on style/clothes/fashion trends over the past few days. I'm out of practice when it comes to business casual, office-appropriate outfits so I've been trying to remedy that through internet research.
Unfortunately, due to my limited (or more accurately, non-existent) budget, even if I do get the internship and head out for some shopping, at best I would be able to buy a few items and only for extremely reduced prices. But with me being me, that hasn't stopped me from admiring and dreaming! During the course of my research I've come across quite a few separate pieces as well as complete outfits that immediately had me salivating.
Oh, to be rich...
The outfit below is one of them. I love absolutely everything about this dress, from the rich vivid green to the asymmetrical draping across the chest to the traditional tea length. I also love the choice of shoes. Paired with this dress, the shoes add to the classic 1930's feel of the outfit. That happens to be a period I adore stylistically, so everything about this looks appeals to me.
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