Word: musing
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...Working It Even in the world of fashion, Joel Stein finds having a muse on the payroll extravagant...
Jealous, angry and more than a little interested in what one of these muses looks like, I canceled an important mid-workday Foosball game and met Amanda Brooks, the muse of Tuleh, at Cafe Lebowitz. She looked the part--like a Klimt painting, tall and thin with wavy golden hair and a Tuleh blouse speckled with drips of gold--and even trumped my corporate Amex with a magical tab that Tuleh employees never have to pay, thanks to a barter deal. Not only do muses not pay for food, but the breakfast was better than it was the last time...
Brooks, 29, a Brown graduate and Manhattan socialite with an easy, blue-blood version of Up with People charm, told me muse responsibility ranges wildly from house to house. I found that surprising for a job in which you get paid merely for existing. But musing can be anything from prancing around the studio, as Sofia Coppola does for Marc Jacobs, to what Brooks does for Tuleh designer Bryan Bradley, which includes giving her opinion on fabrics and designs--something that sounded suspiciously like work until I found out that Brooks draws little hearts next to the parts she likes...
Even though it is the coolest job in the world, Brooks admits it's a little uncomfortable to tell people you spend your day musing. Many people seem to think the title "muse" disappeared from the job market around the same time as "serf." "A lot of people have resistance to muses. They want something tangible: she answers the phone; she's the human-resources manager," says Brooks. But despite her job's intangibility, Brooks takes her responsibility at Tuleh very seriously. Kind of. A mother of two, she goes into the Tuleh offices, which are half a block from...
...know is that I need a muse. I see her lying lazily on my desk, eating bags of Cheetos. Her presence, along with the smell of Cheetos, will somehow make my copy much better. Brooks thinks this is a great idea, but I fear it won't go over well with my wife. That's when Brooks suggests her hot friend Valeria, who is a lesbian. And it is right then that I finally see just how valuable a muse Brooks...