radiantseraphina:

metaknightmare:

hey ahhh does anybody have tips for phone interviews ?? i have one today and i have no idea how to prepare

• Make sure there’s no background noise and that you won’t be interrupted.
• Practically every interview you do will conclude with ‘do you have any questions.’ Always have a question; it makes it look like you’re invested in the job. (I always opt for ‘may I ask how many people are applying for this position,’ but you can obviously ask another).
• Do you have reliable transportation? The answer is always yes.
• If they ask you questions about specific situations, it’s okay to think before answering, and it’s also okay to lie (as long as you do it well. Eight years of customer service, and I still blank at ‘give me a situation where…’ questions).
• Regular job interview advice still applies. The benefit here is that you can do your interview surrounded by cats and in your pajamas while sipping mint tea.
• It’s helpful to indicate that you are in this job for the long haul. And you love this job and totally aren’t applying to every job there is.
• Practicing beforehand doesn’t hurt.
• You’re gonna be fine.

kuromaku:

foodffs:

breelandwalker:

pseudocoding:

onlyblackgirl:

jopara:

thepushyqueenofsluttown:

my-bff-nastia:

procrastinationasperformanceart:

Let me tell you about my panda mini-washer

As an apartment dweller, this is a game changer. My current apartment doesn’t have a laundry facility and the closest Laundromat about a 30 min bus ride which is just not practical. The mini-washer is a life saver

The panda mini washer hooks up to the sink, is incredibly lightweight (about 28 pounds, so light even I can lift it) and easy to use. 

It has a surprisingly large capacity. The basket from the first picture represents about one and a half loads. The jeans took up a whole load while the rest filled the bin only half way. 

Here’s the inside. The left is the washer the right is the spin dryer. Yes, it even drys.

Basically you shove your cloths into the washer, fill it up with water and let it go. I use my shower head to fill it up so it goes faster, the sink hook up took about five minutes to fill the whole tub, with the shower head is is down to a minute an a half. I do it in three wash cycles, a five minute rinse with baking soda, a five minute wash with soap and a three minute rinse with water. You have to drain and refill between each cycle so it’s a little more labor intensive than a traditional washer. 

That’s the spin dryer. It’s about half the capacity of the washer so one wash takes about two loads to dry. The spinner is much more effective than I was expecting. A three minute spin gets my cloths about 90% dry. I hang them up to air dry for that last 10%. 

The machine cost me about 150$. When you factor in two dollars for the bus, five for the machines (per week), the mini-washer pays for its self after only about six months worth of laundry. 

I’m not great at expressing emotion, but I’m hoping you can tell how excited I am.  Let me just say that the panda mini-washer is great and I highly recommend it to anyone currently using a Laundromat.  

Read this and immediately bought it on Amazon for $180. I spend $15 a week to have my laundry done so this pays for itself in 3 months for me. THANK YOU JESUS.

OMG

@ all my nyc pendejas

Oh by the way, they have table top dishwashers that are pretty much the same thing:

This is one of the biggest technological breakthroughs for the everyday homeowner in the current decade: the realization that refrigerators aren’t the only things that can be miniaturized for better affordability and minimal space requirements.

Can you IMAGINE how this is going to change the lives of college students and apartment-dwellers? Or anyone with a lower income who can’t afford a place with “luxury” appliances like dishwashers and laundry machines?

There’s an even cheaper option called the Wonder Wash where you tumble the thing yourself and you’ll have to line-dry the clothes, but it apparently works very well.

As an apartment dweller, I want to spread this.

Save a life

septembercfawkes:

8 times you need to use Telling in your writing.

It’s one of the first rules of creative writing you’ll hear. It may be the rule you hear the most: “Show, don’t tell.”

Today
I’ll explain what that rule means, why it’s in place, and then why
following it too closely can actually harm rather than help your
writing.

There are places in writing where telling is just frankly better, and even more powerful.

What’s the Rule?

The Rule:

Show, don’t tell.

Why it’s a Rule

Honestly, almost any beginning writer who is getting into writing needs
to hear this advice, and probably several times. When I was in college,
this was like scripture. I heard it every week, if not every day. This
is because naturally, we are wired to “tell” a story rather than “show”
one. Telling is easier, and if we don’t know the difference, we just do
what’s natural and easy.

But what is the difference? And why does it matter which you use?

Here is an examples of telling:

• Emily was tired.

Here is how you would change that example into showing:

• Yawning, Emily dragged her backpack on the way to her bedroom. Her
  eyes drooped shut with each step. She fell into her bed and her shoes
  blackened the covers. She rubbed her eyes–mascara gritted against her
  skin–then flung her arm over her face to block out the light.

In my second example, I don’t just tell the reader Emily is tired, I
show them. There are a few reasons to do this. First, if I simply say
“Emily was tired,” as an audience, we don’t get a visual for what
“tired” is, how tired Emily is, or what kind of tired she feels. It’s
vague and general. Is Emily a bored kind of tired? Or physically tired
from running a mile? Or sleepy-tired? But when I show it, it’s clear
she’s sleepy-tired. How sleepy-tired? Tired enough that she can’t pick
up and carry her backpack, so tired that her eyes droop shut and she
doesn’t bother to take off her shoes before “falling” into bed. She
doesn’t even wash off her makeup or turn off the room’s light.

That’s how tired.

Second, when you show instead of tell it immerses the reader into the
story so that they feel like they are experiencing it instead of just
reading about it. It’s like they are there in the house with Emily, or
are Emily herself. One of the ways to do this well is to appeal to the
senses: sight, sound, touch, smell, and taste. In my second example, I
appealed to the senses of sight and touch. (In contrast, in my first
example, I appealed to no senses.) It’s important to immerse the reader,
so that they are experiencing the emotions in the story. If you “tell”
them everything, you’re (almost) never putting the emotions in the reader, so the story won’t be as powerful. When you “show” the story to the reader, you are allowing them to interpret and come to their own conclusions, rather then you telling
them what to think and believe. They become the character.

If telling still doesn’t seem that “bad” to you, look at what bland telling looks like sentence after sentence in this example:

They went to their friend’s house to see some cats. They liked them a
lot. When they got tired, they called their mom to pick them up, but
their mom couldn’t come for two hours. It was cold out, so they went
inside and got something warm to eat. Then they drew some pictures
before watching t.v.

How much emotion do you feel from that? Do you feel like you are in the story? Does it have you on the edge of you seat? Probably not.

Most all beginning writers write stories this way, which is why learning
to show, not tell, is preached just about everywhere. Telling is easy.
Showing takes work.

But like any writing rule, if you treat this one like a commandment, it
can actually hurt your writing and take the power out of your story.

Why You Need Telling

Here is why you need telling.

Keep reading

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