View Flat HTML
View Metadata
Search Post
Bella schedules an appointment at Stanford. She breezes through sixteen hours of motorcycle class, mostly by demonstrating that the instructor is redundant and wouldn't he rather teach her exotic motorcycle tricks and then just mark her as passing the course? She plays in a soccer game against a Port Angeles high school and wins. She starts driving her bike to school, and she names it Tegu after a lizard of similar coloring, because it needed a name.
On Friday evening she's due to fly out, crash in a Stanford grad student's house overnight, interview on Saturday, and fly home that evening. She bikes for the airport, black leather gold-studded saddlebags over Tegu's back wheel carrying her luggage.
+ Show First Post
self_composed
self_composed
Myra finally pulls up to her place - which is indeed more houselike than apartment building like.
self_composed
Bella lets Myra show her the couch she'll be sleeping on. It's getting kind of late, and her interview is early. [I'm going to crash as soon as Myra's roomies over there finish their video game and get off my couch,] Bella says.
edgeofyourseat
[Okay,] says Alice, and thinks wistfully of sleeping on the floor beside said couch, and starts hunting for a nearby hotel and somewhere convenient to de-invisible.
edgeofyourseat
[Are people actually going to be sneaking past your couch while you sleep? Because speaking of creepy...]
self_composed
[It would be impolite not to sneak, if they need a midnight snack or something,] Bella says. [It's a crampy little house.]
self_composed
[If they tripped on you? Slightly, I suppose. Mostly inconvenient.]
self_composed
[I bet you're going to follow me to my interview, too,] Bella guesses.
self_composed
[Just don't be distracting or pull pranks on anyone I need to impress,] she sighs.
self_composed
[Good pet masochist,] she says approvingly. Myra's roommates have finished their game and cleared off the sofa. Bella ducks into a bathroom to change into her pajamas. [See you in the morning.]
self_composed
Bella goes to couch.
She wakes up in plenty of time to get into her nice slacks and blouse and accept Myra's ride to campus, and she uses her little map of Stanford to find the building in which she is meant to have her interview.
She wakes up in plenty of time to get into her nice slacks and blouse and accept Myra's ride to campus, and she uses her little map of Stanford to find the building in which she is meant to have her interview.
edgeofyourseat
And Alice tags along like a guardian angel - invisible, unobtrusive, and airborne.
And watching you.
And watching you.
self_composed
[Behave,] is all Bella tells him as she holds the front door of the building open for an extra second to let him brush past.
She finds the room number, checks the time on her phone, and sits down to wait the remaining two minutes to spare.
She finds the room number, checks the time on her phone, and sits down to wait the remaining two minutes to spare.
self_composed
Bella's interviewer opens the door when Bella knocks, but says, "I'm running just a few minutes late, I'll be with you in a moment."
"That's fine," Bella says.
A few minutes later the interviewer reemerges. "Come in," he says.
"That's fine," Bella says.
A few minutes later the interviewer reemerges. "Come in," he says.
self_composed
The office is full of books, but it is not incapable of holding three people. [Don't sit in the extra chair,] Bella says, [you'll indent it funny.]
edgeofyourseat
[Wasn't gonna,] he says cheerfully, and sits on the floor next to Bella's chair.
self_composed
The interviewer starts asking Bella about soccer (yes, she would be thrilled to join the Stanford team; she's currently playing forward but she would be content in any position where she seemed suited) and flute (yes, she would be thrilled to participate in orchestra; she has little performing experience but isn't generally prone to stage fright, and she's certainly good enough at flute, would he like to hear (he wouldn't)) and academics (she wants to keep her options open, but she is interested in the sciences, and maybe politics, and she can already program but would like to learn more languages and get more developing experience) and other semirandom questions presumably intended to determine her fit into the school culture.
Bella handles the interview very well.
She pentagoned interviewing skills first thing in the morning.
Bella handles the interview very well.
She pentagoned interviewing skills first thing in the morning.