The Best Birthday EVER!

[morrigirl]

I knew the minute I wrote that "I'm not gonna be around for a while" post the fates would step in and render it completely moot. That's one of the unbendable rules of the internet cosmos: if you are haughty enough to pen an "I'm leaving" post you will be ineveidably pulled back to the post you abandoned within a month. Yes, even the internet has a gravitational pull.

All of five minutes ago I got a new job!

As of July 11th I will be the new Administrative Assistant in the Office of Donor and Corporate Relations at Sarah Lawrence College.

For those of you who don't know Sarah Lawrence is one of the most prestigious small liberal arts colleges in the nation. Whereas Knox is a second tier liberal arts college, Sarah Lawrence is first tier. It's the ivy league of its class. It's located in Bronxville, a small town in Westchester county. It's about an hour commute. the bad part is it's rather inconveniently located. To get there I have to take a bus from my house to the metro-north station, catch the metro-north to Bronxville, and then catch a cab from the Bronxville train station to the college. Round trip the cost of my daily commute is gonna weigh in at just under 20 bucks. 100 a week. 400 a month. But I'm getting a 10K pay raise so that'll help. The job is your typical M-F 9-5 deal just like I wanted.

And here's the best part, Sarah Lawrence is home to one of the best graduate creative writing programs in the country, and as an employee I would be able to take classes for FREE!!! That's right, you heard me, FREE! Which is great cause their graduate program is mad expensive. Over 65K for a two year MFA! Crazy, right?

This is exactly what I wanted! Haven't I been saying for over a year that my big plan was to get hired at a college with a creative writing MFA program so I couuld earn my degree for free? Well, I DID IT!!! I DID IT, I DID IT, I DID IT!!! I said I was gonna do it and I DID IT!

So tomorrow I'm gonna waltz into Elisabete's office, give her my two weeks notice and thus put an end to my inprisonment at NYIT.

This is without a doubt the best birthday ever.

:-)

Comments

[gender-euphoric.livejournal.com]

I just left you a voice mail, but I like to be thorough!
Congrats darling! What an awesome fuckin' birthday present, eh?

your biggest fan,
M.J.

[acsnavely.livejournal.com]

thats absolutly fucking awesome, carla
congrats

[yobachi2003.livejournal.com]

CONGRADULATIONS!

But 400 dollars a month just to get to work, damn! I'm mean I'm sure 400 dollars is a lot less in New York than it is in nashville, but Damn! I spend all of 30 cents a day on gas round trip, and that's liberal estimate.

[nabuchodonosor.livejournal.com]

MY GOD I'm so happy for you.

You deserve every single bit of it.

Love you. Happy birthday!

[gender-euphoric.livejournal.com]

That's one of the unbendable rules of the internet cosmos: if you are haughty enough to pen an "I'm leaving" post you will be ineveidably pulled back to the post you abandoned within a month.
this reminds me of what happened when i deleted my journal in January. Livejournal had some big outage just a few minutes after i deleted it. i thought, thanks for stealing my thunder, dudes.

[ma-ee-uh.livejournal.com]

Happy birthday and congrats on the job!

I have a very good friend (who is incidentally my ex) who works there. He rides his bike to work...from Brooklyn. Seriously.

Anyway, it's a nice school -- the free classes thing is excellent.

[deutschetexaner.livejournal.com]

That's awesome! Congrats. May this new year and new job be the beginning of great things for you!

[irishelf.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, that rocks so much! *jumps with happy and glee for you* I'm so proud! And that's so AWESOME that you get free classes! Things are looking up for you so high, you may just fall backwards. ;-)

[skoriaan.livejournal.com]

::insert happy for Carla dance here.::

This is very good. Very very good.

you know what this means? You have weekends free.

You know what that means?


Someone might come to New York, and pester you.

Yeah. Take that!

(Congrats!)

M.

[kdc4evr.livejournal.com]

YAY!!!!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Did you get my text message yesterday?
And did you get the card/'present' I sent you?

get back online dammit, I have internet in my apartment now!

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

400 is expensive even by New York standards. However, I think I may have just discovered a more cost effective way to get to work that will only cost me 150 dollars a month! Yee haw! This new job is getting better and better with each passing day. I wouldn't be surprised if I arrived on my first day to find a gold plated cubicle waiting for me.

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

I got your message honey! Thank you so much. It made me smile real big :-D I'm gonna try to get a hold of you sometime in the next couple days.

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

Oh man that blows! Talk about stealing thunder, I didn't even know you'd deleted it since, ya know, I wasn't able to sign on for a damn week!

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

Aw, thanl you so much :-D

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

*laughs* I guess there are worse ways to fall on your ass :-)

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

You are welcome to pester me any time you want just as long as you don't mind staying in my cave of an apartment. And even better, I have an entire 10 days off between my last day at NYIT and my first day at Sarah Lawrence. I think I'll spend that time being a beach bum. (Did I ever mention that I live about a half hour away from a beach? Who knew?)

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

Yes I got your text message and your present. Thank you so much, they made me smile. I'm gonna hang your picture up in my room :-D

WOW!

[prettypurplebrd.livejournal.com]

yeah...WOW and happy birthday!!! Gosh, you're so lucky...I hope things continue as they are!! *hugs*

[skoriaan.livejournal.com]

Haha. Wow. Well. I leave for Barcelona Saturday. So I don't know that I'll have the leave within that timeframe to do any good visiting. but, I will look for a time, and send you a line, to find out if it is also good for you.

M.

[divineagl.livejournal.com]

where r u ? what ahppened 2 u? im bored

[hypno.livejournal.com]

I told you things would look up. Congrats you truely deserve all the happiness in the world.

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

I'm here. At the library. Working. Where are you?

[silent-t.livejournal.com]

My roomate last year at Chautauqua was from Sarah Lawrence, she did a performance piece there where she played Pink Floyd on the piano while nude. Admission was one joint. One woman said, yeah they do a lot of that there. Hehe. Still it sounded like a neat place. Congrats, I new it would come to you. Terribly glad to hear you are finding a cheaper way to get there...400 a month I nearly fell over, some months that is my entire salary. Ouch! Well, that makes me happy, and now I'm gonna save up money to visit you and we can paint the town in celebration!!
(now you can spring for internet at home...) haha
take care
and jump up and down and squeal for me in true Carla fashion, K?!

[spiltvinegar.livejournal.com]

Very much congrats! A very nice place to be (according to my mom, who knows most librarians/ libraries in the lower half of New York). Sorry this is delayed, but I still wanted to mention it!

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

Thanks Heather :-)

[spiltvinegar.livejournal.com]

In true Italian New Yorker fashion, my mother said, "oh, wonderful. She can do grad school there for free too!" And it looks like a place that you can go up from, yes? So that sounds rather promising.