lunabee34 | An oddity: the personal post

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An oddity: the personal post

OMG!

As you may or may not know, I decided to drop out of the Ph.D. program and find a job back in my home town. My husband Josh has been promised a job with his corporation in Hattiesburg (a good job!) and it's been really stressful looking for a job for me. I've gotten shot down at every turn and my last paycheck is December 30 and it's all just a little overwhelming.

Tomorrow I have an interview with the Vice President for Instruction at a community college and I feel really, really good about this job.

Y'all cross your fingers, send me good vibes, pray, light a candle--whatever you do when you need to ask the spiritual realm for a little help for a friend. I really need this job.

*is terrified of screwing this up*

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It was a hard decision. I finished the course work for the Ph.D. in spring 2005 and then essentially did nothing else towards my degree for two years. I made a reading list and I did some reading on it, but I didn't even attempt to pass either of my comps or do any writing on my dissertation. And I honestly, really didn't want to. I just felt done with it, but I was still in the department accomplishing nothing. My husband had/has a lot of resentment toward me because we're in this tiny town where he can't really get a job and I'm not doing what I was here to do. So all around for our family it was the best decision for me to actually get a real job and stop languishing in the department and move somewhere that's gonna be better for him employmentwise. This may sound like Josh was being mean or something, but really no. He has every right to be resentful. This year marks the first time since Emma was born that he's only had to work one job at the time. The first year of her life he worked three. And while I always pulled my weight financially (at the end of the year we usually end up making relatively the same amount), being a student left me with lots of down time or months over the summer where I wasn't drawing any income and it wore on him. /tmi

Thanks for the luck, sweetie. *puts on her ass kicking shoes*

I will give you my favourite Lorne icon.

It sounds like the PhD has been a long haul, and it also sounds like this is a decision that you're happy about. You can always go back and do the PhD part-time when you're in the right mind-set/point of your life, right?

Again, good luck with the job interview (May the Lorne be With You) (??WTF? I am a dork).

I am happy about it. And I can always do something about it later if I choose to.

:)

Never stop being a dork. Please

Oh, I'm pretty sure I can guarantee that.

And I can always do something about it later if I choose to.

Exactly!

You know, I was wondering. Do you have a Parrish icon? Or was his brief appearance too hard to screencap.

I don't have a Parrish icon :( I have seen one Lorne and Parrish one, but I think that the lack of light in that Parrish scene made them hard to icon.

Well, rats.

Maybe post an inquiry at

parrish_lorne? Because I know I have seen at least one out there. I just can't remember where.

Huh, in fact, scrolling down the page on that comm shows a Parrish icon! I knew I'd seen one around.

It's a pretty good one too.

Yeah, I liked it! It's cute!

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An oddity: the personal post

I'll see your Lorne and raise you another

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Never stop being a dork. Please. :)

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