I feel quietly positive about today’s interview, so there’s something, yes? Quietly less positive about the fact that I put on too much weight over the winter to be able to button up my blazer, but I just installed Pact on my phone and I’m hoping that’ll keep me at least reaching for fresh fruit instead of Wotsits when I’m hungry between meals.
And then there’s this tea. So I overleafed and oversteeped largely by mistake, and then added too much milk to use up the last of the jug because today’s its best before date, and then because I was out of the nice unrefined sugar I like to use in my tea, I added the teensiest drizzle of vanilla syrup instead. And what this magic combo produced was a predominant flavour that was so familiar, yet I couldn’t put my finger on what it was until I was about halfway through the cup.
It had a sort of sweet, roasty, almost grain flavour, but not exactly. It was like the maltiness of the tea had been turned up to eleven. And then it hit me.
The malt.
Ovaltine.
It was as though someone had put Ovaltine in my tea. Like Ovalteane. It was uncanny. And actually really, really delicious. I think I’ve found a new way of drinking this tea when I want something a little different. Because wowzers. That’s good stuff. Who’d have thought?
Uggh. I hear you about these stupid blazers. why can’t we just wear hoodies everywhere? so much more forgiving.
It turns out that the interviewers and the other candidates at the interview were dressed like sort of hipster ladies in their twenties, so I probably could have gotten away with the yellow sweatshirt I always wear with a bow tie, really. Or a cat sweater. I’d probably have hands-down got the job if I’d been wearing a cat sweater.
I’m going to start wearing a cat sweater to all my interviews. I don’t want to work somewhere that a cat sweater doesn’t make the right first impression.
Yeah, I get it. Work environment is everything, as far as I’m concerned.
Agreed. I really really want a cat sweater job.