A year ago, things looked bleak. Hell, a month ago things looked bleak. I won’t go into details – I’ll just say : “State-Wide University Budget Cut”, and “I’m on the bottom of the totem pole.”
Not that I didn’t know I’d be losing my job: our contracts were only for a nine month school year. My department gives priority to recent graduates, as they should. I certainly wouldn’t have gotten hired the first year out if they didn’t. That doesn’t make it suck any less though.
So, I got to work on job applications. In a very unusual turn of events (for me), I focused on job applications and not worrying. And you know what?
It paid off!
It didn’t just pay off a little. Oh yes, oh yes, I’ve landed my DREAM JOB with the A&T honors program. I get to teach, I get to work with smart and hard working kids, I get….my own office!!! With a WINDOW! I never dreamed this day would come. Seriously.
My response was something like this:
And a bit more accurately, if my life were a muscial, this would be the response:
For as much as I often feel like a total screw up, I guess I’m doing something right? I have a job, I have a skeleton of a short story collection (may have slacked on submissions, but I’m working…), I did sixteen miles in spin class on wednesday, and I haven’t killed any of the herbs in my window garden. Yet.
I’m ok. I’m alright!
Up next: furniture. Since I get to stay in Greensboro, I can buy real furniture and not stuff that I got on the side of the road. Literally.
I need suggestion. I want nice furniture, but not super expensive. I don’t want ikea, and I don’t want to buy a magenta couch from someone’s great aunt Muriel’s estate sale.
That’s all! Except to say that I’m back in the kitchen… turkey tacos tonight!
