After spending months thinking I've lost it all, I finally got my mojo back!
This past week has been just what I needed! I spent some amazing quality time with my best friend and been applying for jobs like crazy and it all paid off!
My best friend and I, along with another friend have decided that we're going to work together on a blog (sounds crazy right? Me? Blogging? hmm). I didn't come up with the idea, that would be Gracie (her blogger name). It's going to be a blog about finding love in the 21st century with some interesting twists. We're exploring online dating from a few different perspective and I'll be doing a lot of backgroud research and coming up with questionnaires, multi-generational interviews, exposing LGBT diversity and so much more(FUN!). Well the idea is good, I'm just worried about the follow through...we'll see where it goes.
Any way, the real excitement all came from today. I started off the day with a bang; working through the night on my pet project for V-Day (an organization dedicated to ending violence against women). Then I went to Barnes&Noble for coffee and more writing time. When I got home the magic happened. It was like everything I've been hoping would come through for me suddenly did.
I got an e-mail telling me that I'm going to e the new freelance feminism writer for the Scranton Examiner. Then I got a phone call asking me to come in for another job interview next Wednesday and the woman seemed super nice (I'm secretely hoping it'll be one of those interviews that turns into a "Well, this is what you're going to be doing...how's Monday work as a starting date?" kind of interview. THEN I got an e-mail fom my hall director telling me about ANOTHER job! This one is the best of all! It'll be working for a summer program for high school students (like the summer jobs I've worked for the past two years) at UMass Amherst! It's an amazing opportunity and I really hope I get it.
Aside from all the jobs, one of my recommenders for grad school e-mailed me today, yep the one I couldn't get in touch with. Turns out she's not teaching this summer so she hasn't been checking her e-mail. She's now sending the letter off right away and I couldn't be happier...I mean she is th person I talked up in my personal statement and all...
I really couldn't believe that all of this was happening in the course of an hour! Every time my phone rang or sang to me it was informing me of another job or congratulating me! Yeah, it was an awesome sauce feeling to have things come together like that all of the sudden.
The only bump in the road is that one of my best friends from college is also applying for the UMass job and she wants it just as bad as I do, if not more. My fear is that she'll be angry at me for applying and when she was telling me how badly she wanted this job I felt so guilty, but I can't let it stop me, right? Well I've sort of already decided that if I get the job and she doesn't I'm turning it down and asking that she be hired instead. I know me asking that probably won't make a difference, but I'm not going to accpet if she doesn't get it...the guilt might kill me. It just goes to show how much her friendship means to me I guess...*sigh*
Well that's the story of the amazing day of amazingness where I got my mojo back...short sweet and to the point, just like me...usually
