11-21-2025, 10:05 PM
“That’s why the schedule stays flexible. Of course you don’t plan the creative spontaneity. I’m not that crazy, Cadence! I mean that when it happens, and it gives you extra spoons, you can look at your week and see where you can use those spoons.” She laughed to herself, for the analogy again (delightful, really), and began to type up Cadence’s initial response for qualities in a PA.
“Nothing bad about preferring women,” she said with a shrug, not because she didn’t understand that this was clearly related to the trauma touched on early, but because she genuinely didn’t find it a bad thing to ask for if it was going to help. “You don’t have to justify it, least of all to me. It’s useful to know we are looking for a woman. And nothing is too much to ask. Doesn’t mean we’ll find all the right qualities in one person, but the clearer idea you have the better. And sometimes unicorns do exist. That’s what the columns are for anyway – to work out what things you can compromise on, and what things are non-negotiables. We list everything down, no matter how arbitrary.”
She looked up long enough to smile, then noticed the coffee with a small ‘oh’ of delight. While she took a sip she reached for her wallet, which had been lying face down adjacent to her workspace. “Here is my contact. Just let me know when you are ready for interviews, and I’ll be there. Or if you ever fancy a coffee, lunch, whatever. I don’t actually know anybody in Moscow yet. Well, aside from Jessika.”
“Nothing bad about preferring women,” she said with a shrug, not because she didn’t understand that this was clearly related to the trauma touched on early, but because she genuinely didn’t find it a bad thing to ask for if it was going to help. “You don’t have to justify it, least of all to me. It’s useful to know we are looking for a woman. And nothing is too much to ask. Doesn’t mean we’ll find all the right qualities in one person, but the clearer idea you have the better. And sometimes unicorns do exist. That’s what the columns are for anyway – to work out what things you can compromise on, and what things are non-negotiables. We list everything down, no matter how arbitrary.”
She looked up long enough to smile, then noticed the coffee with a small ‘oh’ of delight. While she took a sip she reached for her wallet, which had been lying face down adjacent to her workspace. “Here is my contact. Just let me know when you are ready for interviews, and I’ll be there. Or if you ever fancy a coffee, lunch, whatever. I don’t actually know anybody in Moscow yet. Well, aside from Jessika.”