my big news

okay, so here's my big update post. ready?...

I GOT A JOB!!!

Harvard Law School. Editorial Assistant/Managing Editor of the Journal of Risk & Uncertainty. the salary is... more than comfortable. there seem to be amazing benefits, like health and full dental and three weeks' vacation a year plus the week off between christmas and new years, plus a T-pass program, plus huge discounts on the harvard fitness facilities and classes in the extension school, plus stuff i can't even comprehend like retirement accounts and annuities. it's an easy commute, and i get my own office, with a door and a window.

there were 71 applicants for this job. and i got it.

i am psyched beyond belief. i'll be able to pay dylan back all the money i owe him, and pay jorn back what i owe him so he can pay dylan back too, and get all my credit cards paid off too. and after that, i don't even know.

yay.

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i get to start my new job on monday, instead of next tuesday! *dances* and it'll be an easy week, too--neda, who's training me, can only afford/acquire so much child care on short notice, so i'll only be with her 11-1 or so each day, and before she leaves she'll get together some things for me to work on in the afternoon. i'll also be able to work on getting my harvard ID, filling out my paperwork, all that stuff, too. already i'm loving neda, she reminds me of both amy lebrun and lauren, which is an interesting mix.

speaking of amy lebrun, she sent me a storypeople card to congratulate me on the job thing. i love storypeople. this has given me the brilliant idea of bringing one of my storypeople (the spider princess, i'm thinking) in to my new office when i get to decorating it.

thanks for all the comments of love and encouragement and yay from the last post. all y'all are great.

tomorrow i'm going to deposit a whole honkin' $240, which i earned working all last week. soon, oh soon, my paychecks are going to be so much nicer. i have the feeling that i'm going to be doing a lot of little dances in the near future. i mean, i danced once in this post already.

when i start paying stuff off, i'm finally, finally going to get a paid el jay account.