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deliriumcrowOn Sunday, I'll be heading deeper into the south. Why, you might ask? It's for the best of reasons, and the only one outside of New Orleans that would actually convince me to stay there.
I have an interview at Colonial Williamsburg for an interpreter position.
See, this is the job I've been day dreaming about since I was 12, when I first found out that people dressed up in 18th century clothes (albeit hugely inaccurate ones, for the womenfolk) at Saratoga Battlefield, and I could too! My first experience was with dipping candles for an annual demonstration of household tasks. It was terrifically boring, but I loved it anyway. I liked feeling like I was living elsewhen, in those stolen moments between curious observers, when i was alone in the still summer air, wood smoke heavy in the humidity. We were far enough from the roads that I could not hear any cars, and it was something I have sought to find since, but always it's come up imperfect.
We went to Williamsburg in February, and I was madly in love from the first few moments. Here was a world that devoted itself to history, walking around and talking to you. Showing you how to spin and weave, how to sew the channels in the stays. And across the street, the College of William and Mary. Which, incidentally, is a public school, incredibly inexpensive, and has a graduate program. That's very important. I need that, you see, in order to learn more stuff, and in a place where my crazy collection of useless facts isn't, after all, completely useless.
So wish me luck, and hopefully on Monday we'll be looking for an apartment, too.
I have an interview at Colonial Williamsburg for an interpreter position.
See, this is the job I've been day dreaming about since I was 12, when I first found out that people dressed up in 18th century clothes (albeit hugely inaccurate ones, for the womenfolk) at Saratoga Battlefield, and I could too! My first experience was with dipping candles for an annual demonstration of household tasks. It was terrifically boring, but I loved it anyway. I liked feeling like I was living elsewhen, in those stolen moments between curious observers, when i was alone in the still summer air, wood smoke heavy in the humidity. We were far enough from the roads that I could not hear any cars, and it was something I have sought to find since, but always it's come up imperfect.
We went to Williamsburg in February, and I was madly in love from the first few moments. Here was a world that devoted itself to history, walking around and talking to you. Showing you how to spin and weave, how to sew the channels in the stays. And across the street, the College of William and Mary. Which, incidentally, is a public school, incredibly inexpensive, and has a graduate program. That's very important. I need that, you see, in order to learn more stuff, and in a place where my crazy collection of useless facts isn't, after all, completely useless.
So wish me luck, and hopefully on Monday we'll be looking for an apartment, too.
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Date: 2010-05-05 12:06 pm (UTC)I am already making my packing list for coming down to visit you. :)
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Date: 2010-05-05 03:31 pm (UTC)And yes, I keep telling myself that they'd be crazy not to hire me for the position. Enthusiasm has to count for something, as well as a bit of knowledge.
Do you think they'd let me knit period socks on period needles there, as part of my job? Because that would rock.
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Date: 2010-05-05 11:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-05-07 03:15 am (UTC)I've been looking around for period correct knitting needles, because I don't think that anodised fuchsia are *quite* what they had then. I could be wrong, though. I often am.
But not, I think, on this.
Also, I have found the used book stores, yarn stores, and fabric stores in the area -- several of each.
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Date: 2010-05-07 04:26 am (UTC)Sounds like you have the shopping priorities straight, though.
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Date: 2010-05-05 06:05 pm (UTC)I thought that Williamsburg was a lot of fun when Paul and I went there on vacation. If I had the desire to relocate to Virginia, I'd be all over working there. But alas, I've found myself to be utterly complacent in the wilds of the suburbs of Albany.
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Date: 2010-05-05 06:10 pm (UTC)And hey, if you come down I'll see if I can get you into cool stuff. ^_^
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Date: 2010-05-05 06:29 pm (UTC)I'm so happy for you! This is exactly what you wanted!
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