Annnnnnd I am off to Philadelphia in a couple hours. Interview tomorrow! Thankfully in the interim, I am having lunch with lacontessa11, which is happy and has the added benefit of keeping me from freaking out the entire day today. \o ( Read more... )

1) Most importantly: crocuses!! \o/ There were a few blooms yesterday at work! And the garden proper reopened this weekend (after snow!dumps + snow damage), so when I go back on Tuesday, I can go check out the meadow and it will be heavenly. Ohhhhh, crocuses are such happy, twirly flowers! ♥ (If you think my LJ crocus!love is excessive, you ( Read more... )

Working full-time with three to four hours of commuting each day makes for boring updates, but I'm still alive over here. I have approximately three hours to myself when I get home, in which to eat dinner, browse LJ and/or watch a TV show, and read homework for my interview next month (my point of contact offered to send me some of their internal ( Read more... )

Just a reminder for those who watch that both shows are switching nights.

White Collar will be on Tuesdays at 10pm, returning 19 January (tomorrow!).

Psych will be on Wednesdays at 10pm, returning 27 January (next week ( Read more... )

Are any of you lot into genealogy? I need a quick primer so I can swing an application for the only job I've seen in months that I feel remotely confident about applying for. The only thing I don't have is genealogy experience, but this seems like a smaller problem than all the other jobs I want that require one or more year's experience with X, ( Read more... )

I GOT THE JOB!!! :D ( Read more... )

Well, I think the interview went pretty well. The person I met with (the curator of the image collections) was nice and friendly. She also said she called me first because I'm a current MLS student. Librarians are generally very excited to help librarians-in-training, so this seems promising. She didn't ask me any really awful questions, so I ( Read more... )

I got a call for a job interview!!!

*happy boogie*

This is very encouraging as the other jobs I've applied for haven't even given me an interview at all.

The job in question is a part-time Archives Assistant position at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. Dumbarton Oaks is a really nifty sounding museum, research library, and gardens in ( Read more... )

STILL no bloody emails (and hence still no job or insurance or anything useful like that).

I got an email from a job I applied for a couple weeks ago, saying that they'd filled the position. They didn't even call me for an interview or anything ( Read more... )

Okay, now I'm a master of public transportation ( Read more... )