Some days just start right. In my inbox this morning: an email from one of my professional associations with announcements of several jobs. Including: CUNY
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There's a job at UNC-CH too, Min. The fact that it wouldn't start until next fall and then you'd be gone 6 months later makes it much less squee-worthy than it would be if you were staying. But still happy news - it could be a decent job.
Puppies and kitties are a very good way to start the morning. Even if they do leave fuzz all over everything you are wearing. :-)
i'm going to be here at least until may '07, linney! and depending on where michael goes to grad school, maybe even longer! (if he gets in to yale or columbia, both in places where i don't want to live, i'll probably look for jobs here and stick around ch a little longer; cost of living here = significantly less than cost of living in new haven or nyc, for example. so i could save up some money and pay off some debt here, whereas i'd probably be living hand to mouth for quite a while in nyc. but that's still all up in the air.)
selfishly i think you should apply for only the job in chapel hill, but magnanimously i think that the job at cuny is fanTAStic because i know how much you love nyc. and ch is nice, but it's no chicago or boston or nyc. it's probably a step up from lansing, but it's still not the kind of city (or cities, as it were) i know you love.
Oh, of course I'm applying for UNC. I'm applying for everything I can, and if I have the luxury of choosing, then I can start to think about comparing one place to another. It's just that I never in a million years thought there would ever be a job for me in NYC. It's utterly thrilling.
I had no idea Michael was thinking about grad school! That's fantastic. To study what exactly?
if when you interview here, you have to let me take you out to dinner, okay? good. and you can sleep on my couch, etc., if you want.
and NYC! so exciting. i am crossing all my extremities and making sacrifices to pagan gods and everything that i can.
michael's applying to three programs for masters' in theater management; it's what sid's roommate e. has her masters' in. he's applying to depaul, which is his first choice because CHICAGO!, and to columbia and yale. if when he gets in, he'd start fall '06. it's pretty exciting. i think i might be more excited than he is, actually. hee.
well, ONE of us has to be wildly optimistic, and since they're your jobs, that means you have to be practical and i get to have fun! :P
i am pretty proud of my boy, i am. he's just finally realized that he can't really get to where he wants to be just doing what he's doing; he really needs that degree to move up. so. that's what he's going to do!
You go ahead and be as wildly optimistic as you like - I am definitely not complaining. :-)
You should be proud, both of Michael and of yourself. It's not trivial at all to go back to school after you've been working for several years. But it's awesome that he's got such a clear focus on what he wants and how to make it happen. In some ways I think just having a clear goal and a clear idea of the steps one needs to take to achieve it is one of the most precious things we can ever have. We've all gone through periods of not really knowing what we want or how to make a change and it is so depressing and frustrating. Hooray for direction!
i have to admit that getting back into the swing of "readings" and "homework" (and can i just say, this program has a lot more busy work than i expected from a masters' program!) has been hard; harder than i would have thought. a couple of weeks ago my boss at work point-blank offered me a full-time job if i'd cut my classes back to part-time student, and i nearly took it, just because full-time employment is something i'm way more comfortable in right now. but i didn't, because school is why i'm here, and the job is just a nice perk.
a very nice perk, considering that i've spent most of today sitting in my office goofing around on the internets!
and with that, i really should go do something productive. surely someone on the library staff has broken their computer by now, right?
your puppy is cute cute cute. puppies are indeed a very good way to start the morning!
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Puppies and kitties are a very good way to start the morning. Even if they do leave fuzz all over everything you are wearing. :-)
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selfishly i think you should apply for only the job in chapel hill, but magnanimously i think that the job at cuny is fanTAStic because i know how much you love nyc. and ch is nice, but it's no chicago or boston or nyc. it's probably a step up from lansing, but it's still not the kind of city (or cities, as it were) i know you love.
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I had no idea Michael was thinking about grad school! That's fantastic. To study what exactly?
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and NYC! so exciting. i am crossing all my extremities and making sacrifices to pagan gods and everything that i can.
michael's applying to three programs for masters' in theater management; it's what sid's roommate e. has her masters' in. he's applying to depaul, which is his first choice because CHICAGO!, and to columbia and yale. if when he gets in, he'd start fall '06. it's pretty exciting. i think i might be more excited than he is, actually. hee.
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*loves*
Oh that's awesome about Michael's grad school plans. Very cool indeed. And such great choices of schools. :-)
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i am pretty proud of my boy, i am. he's just finally realized that he can't really get to where he wants to be just doing what he's doing; he really needs that degree to move up. so. that's what he's going to do!
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You should be proud, both of Michael and of yourself. It's not trivial at all to go back to school after you've been working for several years. But it's awesome that he's got such a clear focus on what he wants and how to make it happen. In some ways I think just having a clear goal and a clear idea of the steps one needs to take to achieve it is one of the most precious things we can ever have. We've all gone through periods of not really knowing what we want or how to make a change and it is so depressing and frustrating. Hooray for direction!
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a very nice perk, considering that i've spent most of today sitting in my office goofing around on the internets!
and with that, i really should go do something productive. surely someone on the library staff has broken their computer by now, right?
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