( Health insurance stuff, in case it's been too long since readers outside the United States have had to think about how truly awful our health care system here is. )

( So, um ... we bought a house! )

So holy crap: I got married. Every day I see the rings on my left hand and am surprised again how different they look than the engagement ring by itself. I am becoming accustomed to not just thinking of him, but also actually referring to him, as my husband - and other people aren't even blinking when I say it. And why should they - a husband ( Read more... )

( Work. )

Nagging Pays Off:( me: )

Let me just take a moment to say:

HOT DAMN!

Hee.  That is all.

Have just learned that I didn't get the low-paying gig I interviewed for a couple weeks ago (which, now that there is no chance of jinxing it, I'll go ahead and reveal was a paralegal position with the ACLU's Program on Freedom of Religion and Belief; true, I didn't want to be a paralegal for the rest of my life -- in fact if you'd asked me in ( Read more... )

I should hear from them within the next four weeks?!

[climbs walls]

Morning at Choir 2.  Afternoon and evening at misia and perigee, finishing with the proofreading and catching important oopsies like "501" where it should have been "510" and geeking out over Star Wars and being fed v. tasty beans (moors) and rice (christians) with sausage (jews, only it was pork sausage, so perhaps not) and even tastier apple cake.  Home now ( Read more... )

So I got to the interview exactly on time, despite the wretched traffic (where is everybody going at 3pm on a Tuesday?! Don't they have jobs?), and I felt like it went well.  But again, hard for me to say.  I met three people -- the person who would be the leader of my team, her boss, and his boss -- over a period of two and a half hours.  I felt ( Read more... )