magicbeans. nothing if not awkward.

so after faxing off my resume, i've been bouncing emails back and forth for a few days with that company that lou and andrew have been suggesting i get in touch with. this morning, i get the following email:

we require onsite work unless we're working with highly qualified consultants.

and i fire back this response:

okay. this is the kind of message that i was trying to avoid all along. for months andrew gates and lou kosak had been telling me about what a great place [...] was and about how there would a lot of work this summer and about how i should get involved. and i said i don't know what i'm doing this summer, but i'll keep it in mind. and they both kept pushing. and so when i found out i'd be in providence, i told them, look, i'm planning on spending the summer in providence, but if there's any chance that i could do some work remotely, i'd be interested. (it's worth pointing out that at this time i wasn't expecting that i would be able to work remotely, which seems to be the case, but let me return to my story.) and so andrew says, okay, i'll look into it, but i don't think that would be a problem. and he emails me back saying email [...] and you will get work this summer. okay i thought, i definitely could use some extra money, i'm working full time in the risd library, but it doesn't pay much. and so when i finish with the semester and am back in connecticut for a week i fire off an email. and get a cold, formal response, please fax us a resume. which almost completely dissuaded me right there, after hearing about what a fun environment it was and all. but i said to myself, okay, it's just a sign that they're doing things professionally, which li.com never really did, that's not bad. so i fax my resume. exchange a few emails. and now after all that, i come to learn "we require onsite work". which is what i thought i had cleared up before i even got myself involved in the process.

not trying to be bitchy, just disappointed.

so, i guess i still have to find another way to make a few bucks.

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stopped by the beb on the way home from work. pretty much everything of value had already been scavenged, but i found a couple of things. a huge spool of blue thread. a block of wax. a sewing kit. a recent issue of architectural record that i hadn't read.