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Me- who else?

I’m inserting this photo for Kim Weiss at Blueplate PR (www.blueplatepr.com), in the hopes that she may recognize me when we meet at Helios on Thursday to talk about my vintage collection at Purple Armchair.

I’ll be putting up photos on Thursday (hopefully) of my section of the store and the items in it.

For the uninitiated, Purple Armchair is the mixed retail marketplace on West Street here in Raleigh where I’ve started selling hand-picked dresses from the 40s to the 80s (hence the title of this blog). Recently, I have begun to slowly introduce some guys’ stuff as well, and, depending my rate of success at that, I will continue and expand.

I’ve got quite a few fun things going on this week, actually. Having lunch with Melissa at Dos Taquitos tomorrow, and in the evening I’m being interviewed for an evening German teaching position with a local translation and foreign language instruction company. Not that I don’t already have enough work to do. But this new job is meant to be: I had been teaching English to a Russian vaccinologist named Boris over at Duke, and had just begun that when I got the call about teaching German and had to decline. In a odd, I-think-not coincidence, the M*******vs (the Russian family- hey, you never know how comfortable those Russians would be about me revealing their identity ) left the country *yesterday,* and *yesterday* the woman called again with an interview offer.

Right now, I’ve got Deutsche Welle TV on in the background to de-rust for tomorrow’s interview, and I have to say, it makes my heart sing to hear and understand a different language, and I look very much forward to getting back to that part of my life and my brain after the grant for my current job runs out in February.

Then, Thursday I’m having dinner with my new friend Amy. Check out her *ridiculous* cakes here: http://picasaweb.google.com/a2richster.

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