Segue: 0 to 60 mph

Dagnabit, my create page is frozen half way through an entry. I think I have to accept that it is lost. Of course I can't cut and paste it (can't see any text right now) so I think I have to start this long winded entry again. I hate that.

I woke up with the dawn this morning. Just as my Love was going to bed. He can't work on rainy days, so he knew he would have a holiday today. I went back for a bit of a cuddle until he fell asleep, and woke up just before the alarm -  got dressed in my job interview clothes, met my new boss (job #2) to get some paperwork for the job. Came home and finished getting ready for my job interview today (job #3).

I feel like I have had a lazy time of it lately (hence the 0 mph of the title) but when I look at it, I have done a ton this month: applied for a lot of jobs, interviewed for three, moved 2000 miles and set up house in a new place, learned my way around a new state, prepared and sold photographs at a sale, turned an overgrown bamboo patch into a garden, got a chicken coop partly ready for some chooks,

I left home with an hour and forty minutes to spare, got lost briefly, arrived twenty five minutes early for my interview at the aquarium. The salt air of the ocean and the brief glimpse of the Atlantic I got while crossing the Thames made my heart sing. I lovelovelove the sea!

The interview went wonderfully. I loved the staff, and they loved me. Only two things bothered me. The pay was several dollars less an hour than I had it in my head that it was (and the ad is gone off of their website, so I can't verify it) and "part time" equals three or four full days a week. I was allowed to choose to only do three, but that means three full days and three half days of work every week. I came home deciding that I didn't think I could do it. At current gas prices and using our jeep I would pay my first two hours of work for gas. Combined with travel time, my day would be an eleven hour working day. I started thinking about volunteering instead, and combining it with job #2 - get Patty an internship there and supervise her.

Then I got home and downloaded my photos. And I felt again that feeling I have when I stand outside that Beluga whale enclosure. Home. Heaven. Just... wow. Look at the whale. Ohmy. I think I must have been a Beluga in a past life.

 Still, I wrote an entire vox entry when I got home about how I felt torn,  but it just wasn't practical to do this job. I never finished the entry. It was finished, but somehow I felt terribly tired when it came to the end, and never pressed send. I went and laid down on the bed and had a nap. I woke up dreaming about the job, and in my dream I was enjoying it so much!

 

Then the phone rang. It was Chris from the aquarium. They loved me. They are willing to work around my other work needs. At this point I still have to do three days a week, but after a month or so I can perhaps ask to switch to being on call for up to two days a week instead. I actually like the lottery of being on call.

 

My Love is very happy about all of this. He's already looking for another car for me to drive down there. That will cut the gas a lot from the jeep. It also means we don't have to juggle car usage for our respective jobs anymore. Good! 

So - I start on Sunday. My other job might start next week also, but more likely it will be a week later. I am so glad I really got in and got things done around here. Life is about to start really moving!

I can't pass up this opportunity. Chances sometimes only come around once in life.

Carpe carp-um, I say: sieze the fish!!!