How's it going?

I look better.

You look tired.

It's harder coming this direction with the jet lag.

It's a lot easier when you go to Asia, I think.

But when you come to America it's so hard.

It hurts.

It's like painful.

It's like, ah.

So yeah, I just started, I just got a new job and it totally fell into my lap.

I, um, it's called a fit model.

So it's not like fitness.

It's like, um, they have a target market and then they take all of their sizes and they average it.

And then that person is their medium, the middle of the road, just their medium size.

And so it's all just about if you have the right measurements.

And so I, I'm working with a company now.

Last week I signed on to a modeling agency.

So I have to go through them for jobs.

So right before I met you, I had an interview with a company that does outerwear and like hiking wear and stuff.

Cause Seattle's pretty, we've got a lot of outdoor clothing companies here.

So they need somebody to, they need models for a sales, like a selling event and a conference.

So if I get the job, I might have an opportunity to travel to Eastern Washington to a sales convention where I wear their clothing and maybe on stage and they talk about it and I'm, and I'm just model it.

So that's my new part-time job and I'm really excited cause it pays really, really well.

Like it pays really well.

Like it's, um, starting as $85 an hour.

And yeah, so I had to sign on to a modeling agency.

I have a contract for two years with them.

It's so weird cause like, you know, models there's fashion and runway and for, you know, magazines and commercials.

And then there's another type of modeling, which is called fit modeling, which is where companies use you at their headquarters to base all of their sizing, their clothing on.

And then there's also fitness models, which is like, I work out a lot and have a six pack.

So I'm the fit model, not fitness model, but it's cool.

I'm excited.

And then I found a fact that says that the highest paid model in Seattle makes $187 an hour, but that's somebody with a lot of experience that is like in all the magazines and stuff like that.

But that's not me.

I'm different.

Those people have to be taller and they have to be very skinny.

So there's a certain look that they, they're looking for for different things.

But isn't that interesting?

Like this is a, this is an interesting part of the fashion industry because I've been working for over 10 years as a teacher in the fashion industry, but modeling is another side of it that I don't know a lot about.

So it's interesting to learn about that.

I'm tired too.

I had to get up early for this meeting.

I had to get up at 9am and that's early for me.

I don't like to get up early at all.

I usually wake up at 9.30 in the morning.

I usually go to bed at 2.

I like actually working at night.

It's kind of quiet, you know, nighttime.

You can, I like to do my sewing and my jewelry making and stuff that I do at night.

And you're still coming to Olympia, right?

You're going to like it.

It's a funny town.

It's where I'm from.

I grew up there and it's kind of a small, a smaller town, but it's not like a dying town because in America there's a lot of small towns that are like dead.

Like there's nothing happening there.

But Olympia, there's a lot going on.

There's a college there and it's pretty cool.

So, and I was thinking like, I felt kind of bad about Thanksgiving that one year because I think we're trying to get you down there, but the train, like it wasn't letting us book the tickets.

I kind of regret that not happening because you know, my dad, you could have met my dad.

You would have really liked my dad.

My dad would like you too.

My dad's funny.

You guys would have a good time.

But my mom's still around.

She's cool.