How are you enjoying seeing the top of my head bent over something that needs proofreading? That is all anyone who lives with me sees lately, my head and my nice gray roots. Mmmm. Alluring.
Great googely-moogley, I'm busy.
Holy Week is here, and I went to church today and WORKED during the service. Nice.
This week, instead of, you know, five volunteers who are going to usher or read or whatever, we have about 25. So I sat in my office and wrote reminder post cards, then handed them to people as they left church. I thought that was sort of brilliant. I also created the Maundy Thursday bulletin and put it on the rector's chair today, so he has no choice but to see it and review it right away.
Also too, I have two huge legal documents I am proofreading and I am pleased to report I finished one yesterday and got an extension on the deadline for the next one. I pleaded Holy Week and I think Mr. Fancy Legal Guy felt too intimidated by God and his week to say no, you have to get my work done right away.
Not to MENTION, I am proofreading a giant statistics book again, and yesterday something that I thought would take about five hours took 12. It didn't help that we had a stupid tornado yesterday, so we had to gather our Noah's Ark of pets into the basement and wait for the house to blow away and land in Emerald City. Which it didn't.
At any rate, late last night I flumped onto the couch to see my new cable that I've barely been able to pay attention to, and do you know what I found? The FITNESS CHANNEL!! Now, why didn't anybody tell me there was such a thing?
They were doing yoga, and if that wasn't just what I needed to relax my worky bones. I love the Fitness Channel!
Today, according to my Jeff Galloway running schedule, I am supposed to run four miles again, not 4.5, as I had thought. It is an exciting break, but I do not even know if I can fit it in. If not, I will run four miles tomorrow night. But you have to be sure and call me on it.
And, you guys, we have a big dilemma. Big. I was trying not to tell you, but I had me anOTHer job interview last week. Remember how I said no more interviews? Well, this was for a job I applied for February 6th. It is to be a proofreader for a cool company up near the Greensboro/Winston-Salem area.
So, if you ask me, I think I will be offered the job. Here is the dilemma. DO I TAKE IT OR NOT?
Here is why I maybe should:
- I already know what it pays and it is the most money I have been offered in North Carolina so far. Plus, it has benefits and profit sharing and all that stuff.
- It would be interesting work, and many people who work there have been there 10, 20, even 30 years.
- I get an office, which may sound diva-ish to you, but really, having an office when you proofread is really important and most companies don't understand that.
- Finally, we really, really need the money. I am making a FIFTH of what I made in LA. We are poor. We are sometimes-we-have-to-charge-groceries poor.
Here is why I maybe I shouldn't:
- I would have to move away. This job is two and a half hours from here. So I would have to live separately from Marvin until June.
- The dog. I would either have to take her with me and put her in doggie day care, or she'd stay with Marvin and be alone all day here. If you think this town has doggie day care, when it does not even have a movie theater, you are smokin' the ganj.
- When Marvin DOES join me in June, he'd have to find a job. Probably not too hard to do, tho, as they need male teachers here a lot.
- We'd have to find an apartment there that takes a dog and cats, or we'd have to scramble and buy a house, like, right now.
So, what do I do? Keep in mind I have found legitimate proofreading jobs a total of maybe four times in the seven months we've lived here, so saying "another job will come along!" isn't necessarily realistic. Especially one that pays what this one does.
Mostly I feel bad about Tallulah. Here I plucked her from the streets only to move away and/or ignore her 8 hours a day. I kind of want to stay poor for a year and raise her up right, THEN get a job. Is that crazy?
I had better go proofread something. For a change. Thanks for your advice. I may ignore it, but thanks anyway.
XO,
June
