1
Sep
Posted in From the Trenches | 2 Comments »
photo credit: ianus
As much as it sucks to stay home and wallow on the couch all day or force yourself to occasionally look at the computer and maybe press a few keys when you’re sick, it is way way way way worse to have to drag yourself out of bed, scan your grey visage in the mirror, groan, pour some orange juice down your throat (which cools the fiery depths temporarily), figure out what to wear that isn’t going to make your bones ache (sweats?), and struggle to midtown where your freelance ME gig awaits, and there are irritating Helvetica issues to be resolved.
Why am I sick, cruel world??? Why? (Imagine pounding fists and flailing appendages, except I’m too weak to do more than sit here and type, and maybe twitch my eye a little.)
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Tags: amish market, bad chicken noodle soup, carmex cherry, delirium, enforced sobriety, feverish freelancing, helvetica issues, home sick, kleenex, sick at work, the gap, unemployment jeans, yogi honey lemon throat comfort tea
18
Aug
Posted in Runty Rants | 2 Comments »
photo credit: CaDs
Today, while enduring the boredom and sense of tragic loss generated while one is stuck in an office but has very little to do—I know, I’m getting paid, but I just kept thinking of what I could have accomplished at home; also, I overhead some girls talking about how people who shop at the Gap are, like, JUST NOT LIKE THE REST OF US, and that kind of rubbed me the wrong way (sort of like the way my thighs rub together during an August heat wave, now that you mention it)—I got an email that perked my spirits considerably.
It was from the author of Amber’s Lust for Life. She said, “I just read your blog about Delta and thought you may enjoy this letter I wrote to the NWA Dining for Miles Program.”
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Tags: amber's lust for life, are you starving, carebridge guide, customer care, delta airlines, j. crew, jean valjean, northwest airlines, people like us, recession phenomenon, the gap, wal-mart
29
Jul
Posted in Unemployment Lookbook | 2 Comments »
Derek Ivie, the legend behind TGMTU, shows YUD Fashion Director Lindsey Hunter Lopez the upside of dressing down (in a down market) at a midtown lunch near his former place of employment. While the suits strut the street in hot, wooly cocoons, Derek breezes around NYC looking casual cool.
LHL: Derek, what is the key to your unemployment wardrobe?
DI: Comfortable underwear. I spend most of my day rolling around in bed thinking about what I am going to do with my life. I don’t want anything too tight, otherwise things will get hurt in the rolling process. Cotton boxer briefs from the GAP really seem to fit the bill for me.
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Tags: adidas watch, derek ivie, details, dressing down in a down market, fashion, gold bond powder, goldilocks and the three bears, gq, iphone 3gs, j. crew, julia child, lindsey hunter lopez, man bag, my life in france, ray-ban aviators, recession fashion, sunglass hut, surf puerto rico, TGMTU, the gap, tim gunn, unemployment style, what not to wear
