I Got A Job!

Wait, let me give that the font size it deserves...

I GOT A JOB!

I start Monday Oct 30th at the department of Family & Consumer Sciences at Michigan State University. Almost six years to the day after I left (in one of the worst examples of poor timing in history). The job is grant based, so it'll be renewed a year at a time, but I intend to make myself so utterly indispensable that they'll find a way to keep me. My office will be just upstairs from the MSU Dairy Store, so I'll have to work on the old willpower to only go down for ice cream once or twice a week.

The pay rate is decent, it's full time and my benefits will start in November. I couldn't be happier. Lori, the office manager who will be my boss, stressed that they chose me because of my vibrant, entertaining personality (as opposed to instead of it). I find that a particularly encouraging sign.

So... I'm off to go do my awkward but enthusiastic happy dance.

I've got a job!

Brain Gender

Like most Internet quizzes, this one is worth what one pays for it...

In the category of "this isn't really news", it turns out that my thought patterns are more feminine than masculine. As a teenager I desperately wanted to be a boy -- and then I discovered feminisim (then the "Women's Lib' movement) and found I didn't want to be a boy - I just wanted the same rights, privileges and treatment!

And I still do...

Your Brain is 73% Female, 27% Male

Your brain leans female You think with your heart, not your head Sweet and considerate, you are a giver But you're tough enough not to let anyone take advantage of you!

What Gender Is Your Brain?

PS: Employment (no)news - still looking. Didn't even get the editing gig - they decided to go in-house. Different interview and temp agencies on Wednesday, since I'll be dressed up anyways.