Stupid stupid stupid stupid. What’s wrong with me? I was so excited and prepared for this interview, or so I thought. It’s Sunday evening and I had my day all planned out: •Get eyebrows microbladed my by sister for her training class •Attend Texas Showdown staff meeting (TX Showdown is a fighting game tournament) •Go to Wild Cajun with Alex for some good ol’ crawfish •Go home and practice being interviewed As I’m saying my goodbyes to my sister after she made my eyebrows look FABULOUS, I received an email at 6:45 PM from my recruiter. It reads: “Dear Nastasha, We are scheduled to have an interview in 15 mins but I don’t see you on Skype. Have you added on ? If you would like to continue on job seeking with us, please do let me know. Regards,” HO-LY [BLEEPING] [BLEEP]! I converted 10am Korean Standard Time to 7PM US Central Time, but I didn’t convert it to the next day! I had post-it EVERYWHERE stating Monday at 7pm, when actuality it was SUNDAY @ 7. DAMMIT! I panicked! I almost cried! I asked my sister if she had a blouse or a nicer shirt–anything. I was dressed in Nike and Under Armour tank and compression pants with a Seahawks beanie on my head. The eff, Stasha. My sister handed me a sweater from the trunk of her car. I thanked her quickly and ran as fast I could back into the Westin Galleria where her training was being held. The time was 6:56pm. I ran back to the hallway of the 3rd floor. I had remembered seeing an empty table and some chairs. I pushed the table in front of this gigantic golden-framed mirror and pulled my Surface out of my purse (thank goodness that I always carry that thing with me). I plugged it into an outlet, turned it on and signed into Skype. “PASSWORD DOES NOT MATCH SKYPE ID” No. Not now. Don’t you do this to me, Skype! For the life of me, I had not remembered my Skype password. I email my interviewer and apologize. I tell her that I’m about to sign on and that I had miscalculated the time conversion. 7:01 comes around and I’m still messing around with verification and password changes to Skype. Finally. I fix it, get on, and add her. The time is 7:05pm. I’m late and completely mortified. My heart is racing as the Skype app dials her number. Her face appears. I greet her with a smile and “hello” and offer my apologies. NEXT BLOG POST: THE INTERVIEW…