Hmm, yeah, so I haven’t written in a while. Sorry about that. I’ve been staring at my phone for the past two weeks, willing it to ring.
On Tuesday, it finally did.
Now, I am proud to announce that after six months of suspecting, a month of preparing, thirty minutes of interviewing, an intense moment of confusion, and two weeks of phone-staring, I am now, officially, employed again — this time as an academic advisor for Auburn University. Back to college I go, I go.
I am quite looking forward to this job. It certainly will be different from what I did previously. This time there will be less drawing and more talking which, surprisingly, I am looking forward to. I’m sure being isolated in the apartment for seven months has contributed to that, but I do remember enjoying the bits of my last job where I got to meet up with different people and discuss ideas. This new job will be just more of that, it will be . . . business. Ahh, and here I am reminded of Sam, the blue eagle muppett in The Muppett Christmas Carol. “Oh, you’ll love . . . business. It is the American Way.” Excellent quote, but I am wandering off the subject at hand.
So, yes. Job. Horray for everything!
You know what I think the best part is? It’s a silly thing, really, but just the same I am getting joy out of it. I shall have a lovely yellow A-zone tag to hang on my Elliott. This one bit of reflective plastic makes me cool in my contemporaries’ eyes. On campus, I can park anywhere and drive wherever I please . . . as long as it’s not a handicapped spot. Still gotta leave room for them, you know.
Come Monday morn I will be headed back to the Land of the Working in Funchess Fungus Hall, where I will no doubt fill out a lot of paperwork. But after that — business!