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Dear High-End Furniture Store,

If you are going to put someone through four rounds of interviews that involves talking to every single person in both the corporate company and the local store, and you are going to draw out this process so it takes a month and a half, and if you are going to say exceedingly encouraging things, and send that person home with packets filled with information about how great it is to work for you, and talk incessantly about the great discount employees get and give that person a catalog and tell him to "create a wish list," and praise his diverse background in FURNITURE DESIGN, then I would appreciate it very much if you wouldn't, in the end, turn him down for someone who has more "retail experience." Because you knew what his retail experience was by looking on his resume the first time he sent it to you. And any sixteen-year-old who has folded t-shirts at the gap for a summer has retail experience. It's a little less common than an undergrad education focused on furniture.

Thanks, Liz

P.S. Jerks.

Either it was too early in the morning, or he thinks I'm really stupid

Me: Can you look at the computer? It's not recognizing the picture drive.
J: Huh?
Me: I'm trying to upload photos, but the computer won't pull up the correct drive.
J: That's because the card is still in the camera.
Me: ...
Me: I did take the card out of the camera and put it into the computer.

Nuts

I saw this recipe over at my favorite food blog, Smitten Kitchen, and had to give them a go. I didn't have cayenne pepper, so substituted chili powder (which has a bit of cumin, garlic, and oregano mixed in with the chili peppers). They turned out as beautiful and tasty as Deb promised, and I can't wait to toss 'em in a salad with that potent blue cheese we bought for my party.