Which you must admit is very strange for me. But the reality is that the clients of my office are most immediately the banks seeking to buy mortgage insurance on their hospital and nursing home lending. And they are mortgage bankers. So following the principle that you need to dress like your clients, I really should be dressing like the bankers at least for meetings.
Alas, I need to go clothes shopping this weekend. My goal is to find acceptable pieces that are machine washable. Really, is machine washable too much to ask? It would be nice if I didn't have to iron too but that might be hoping for too much.
In other news, I think I had a reasonably productive week at work. A lot of that was starting paperwork and getting signed up for various things, but those need to get done too. I even took on the travel scheduling system because they are sending me to a new employee and lender training in Chicago the week of September 12. So I had to try to expedite that as much as possible. Hopefully my fed travel credit card will come in next Tuesday.
Today I'm meeting Kevin (a nice guy who is also new to the area and very usefully has a pickup) to pick up some chairs I found on Freecycle and a Craigslist shelf. I'm getting the apartment reasonably furnished with a fairly eclectic collection. As Irene (a neighbor down the hall) says, "Late garage sale, early basement." It works though. I'll have to keep watching to find a futon for guests though. I have hopes of finding one through Freecycle if I'm patient.
Interesting (to me at least) is this post on Ezra Klein's Washington Post blog. It's not new to those of us who are familiar with the issues, but it's a concise presentation of the long term federal health care spending problem. Of course the farther in the future you get the less useful predictions are. Really what these charts say to me is that something will change, I just don't know what.
-Sarah
2 comments:
Machine washable may, in fact, be too much to ask. I know this from grim experience. But there is a middle road -- have you discovered Dryel? They're these home drycleaning sheets, where you stick a few clothes items in a bag with the sheet, and then tumble dry for a half an hour or so. It is supposedly similar in effect to getting them dry-cleaned, and should at the very least reduce the frequency with which you have to take the clothes to a commercial service.
Hey Sarah, I just found your blog; I'm excited to get to hear about your adventures! I got my residency application in and I applied to 2 places in/near DC, so maybe I'll stop by this fall sometime. :)
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