Thanks Mart!n! and other good news.

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So today I woke up to an exciting email discovery: I am now the proud recipient of a paid LiveJournal account, thanks to the generosity of msmithma! I'm still exploring all the bells and whistles, but already I'm excited to note that I have many, many user pictures, and uploading my old ones was enough to switch the pictures on the old entries that used them and had previously reverted to my default pic. Neat! Also I suspect there will be much shuffling of stylesheets in the weeks to come, although maybe not....

...because I have a job! Sort of. This morning I went in for my interview at the tutoring place I applied to work at a few weeks ago, and the lady I spoke to was really cool and friendly and basically said, "Well, from your resume I don't think you can be my successor as director of the tutoring program, but I liked your cover letter so much I wanted you to come in so I could talk to you and maybe ask you to be a tutor" and it was a big relief because I'd been trying to figure out how to say "Um, so, yeah, I'd be a good tutor but I don't know about that administrative stuff." Whee! So now I've got an application thingy to fill out, listing the classes I'd be interested in tutoring, includes subjects I'd like to learn more about as well as subjects I know well enough to tutor for sure. My list so far is math, obviously, and linguistics, but probably writing as well, and maybe basic biology/evolution/ecology since I keep surprising myself by both liking that stuff and being good at it to boot. Other suggestions are welcome (literature? feminist theory? reading? whee!)

A bit more information about the job (even though it won't really feel like I'm employed until I'm actually teaching and getting paid for it): it's a private company that specializes in tutoring learning disabled kids so they can stay in public school or college, transfer from Lane Community College to the U. of Oregon, stuff like that. They also take students who've fallen behind in their coursework for other reasons, but kids with learning disabilities/differences are their primary customers. I might soon be tutoring a girl who's fallen behind in her upper-division college math classes for health reasons (the U. of Oregon is on the trimester system, which makes it entirely too easy to lose bigtime if you're ever sick for more than, say, a week). That's cool. The lady I interviewed is the owner/director of the company, which owns a big funky house in Eugene where tutors meet with students (yay not having to travel to meet with students!) Tutors work as private contractors, which is cool with me as well; I'll still be responsible for my own health insurance and whatnot, but that's nothing new for me.

So yay! Coming out of my interview this morning I felt a lot better about this job than I did coming out of the interview with the applied psychology people on Thursday, so it seems to me like it doesn't matter either way whether I get that job. Whee!

Oh, and since I promised Mart!n over IM a few minutes ago, let the record show that I promise to use my new LJ bells and whistles for the general entertainment of all, or something. That is, assuming I ever figure them all out. Whee! (Any suggestions?)

Comments

[ailie.livejournal.com]

Whee! Congrats!

Yay!

[goteam.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Welcome to the gainfully employed...

[kuddliphish.livejournal.com]

...almost as good as being gainfully unemployed ;)

What smashing fabulous news! Congratulations on both the journal and the job!

As for using the bells and whistles for the betterment (or at least entertainment) of all, you gotta give us some good creative polls.

[qousqous.livejournal.com]

Neato! Congrats!

[kweerious.livejournal.com]

yay, for cool jobs and nice employers!

[quizro.livejournal.com]

Mazel tov!

[chocolatesmudge.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!

[chanusa.livejournal.com]

GOOOOooooooooooooOOOOOOOOO Tracy!

[pants-of-doom.livejournal.com]

Congratulations. Better to have a job than be looking for one.