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General Update
Mar. 28th, 2008 06:10 amThe elementary school play wasn't so bad last night. It helped a lot that it was held in a multipurpose room and I got the seat in the back corner next to the window so I could read and not be obnoxious about it for the time before the show and then an hour or more into it. Then I could read my gadget without casting the light onto other peope. But I *did* pay some attention, and thought the kids did a great job. They're very poised and articulate at that school. There was a long series of dancing flowers, and each dance was from a different culture, so that was cool. Some of the costumes were amazing. My Wolfling was very proud, and rightly so.
Yesterday afternoon I still hadn't heard back about my interview, so I emailed the recruiter saying The hiring manager told me last Thursday that she'd get back to us by the first of this week. It's Thursday and I haven't heard anything. Can you give me a status report? She wrote back with a surprised apology, saying that she hadn't heard anything either! And since it's the recruiter who actually creates the offer letter, this means that I was wrong in my guess that they were already negotiating with someone else. So that possibility remains open.
I'll be going on the award trip to Florida alone. I invited four different people, each of whom had a good reason to decline, and refrained from inviting a few other folks who I like but don't think I'm up to spending four days in a hotel with.
Going through this process was emotionally intense, since it raised a lot of grief issues around the loss of both the love relationships I was involved with at this time last year -- and especially because I first said "I love you" to one of them the night before the first of these trips two years ago. That whole trip became a celebration of coming back to life emotionally, and I will always be grateful to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kateri_thinks for her companionship and graceful spiritual direction during that time.
Eventually I have been able to center on the fact that I am an introvert, and there are worse things than having a luxury hotel suite to myself for a few days. I'm approaching it in the spirit of retreat. There will be corporate things to do: a for-form's-sake "business meeting" that will be a bit of rah-rah, a couple of organized activities which will be fun, but a lot of free time to myself. I expect to take advantage of the latter.
It's Friday. Wolfling's dad will be picking her up before I get home from work, and I'm looking forward to a productive weekend of doing my taxes, doing some ritual experimentation and spiritual studies, continuing the process of sorting my files (I finally found and figured out what to do with my various filing furniture), and generally getting things in order.
Have a good day, everyone!
Yesterday afternoon I still hadn't heard back about my interview, so I emailed the recruiter saying The hiring manager told me last Thursday that she'd get back to us by the first of this week. It's Thursday and I haven't heard anything. Can you give me a status report? She wrote back with a surprised apology, saying that she hadn't heard anything either! And since it's the recruiter who actually creates the offer letter, this means that I was wrong in my guess that they were already negotiating with someone else. So that possibility remains open.
I'll be going on the award trip to Florida alone. I invited four different people, each of whom had a good reason to decline, and refrained from inviting a few other folks who I like but don't think I'm up to spending four days in a hotel with.
Going through this process was emotionally intense, since it raised a lot of grief issues around the loss of both the love relationships I was involved with at this time last year -- and especially because I first said "I love you" to one of them the night before the first of these trips two years ago. That whole trip became a celebration of coming back to life emotionally, and I will always be grateful to
kateri_thinks for her companionship and graceful spiritual direction during that time.Eventually I have been able to center on the fact that I am an introvert, and there are worse things than having a luxury hotel suite to myself for a few days. I'm approaching it in the spirit of retreat. There will be corporate things to do: a for-form's-sake "business meeting" that will be a bit of rah-rah, a couple of organized activities which will be fun, but a lot of free time to myself. I expect to take advantage of the latter.
It's Friday. Wolfling's dad will be picking her up before I get home from work, and I'm looking forward to a productive weekend of doing my taxes, doing some ritual experimentation and spiritual studies, continuing the process of sorting my files (I finally found and figured out what to do with my various filing furniture), and generally getting things in order.
Have a good day, everyone!
