Wooooooooot! E. Jean got back to me (thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!); my internship starts Sept. 1st! Best of all, she was kind enough to tailor it to my circumstances by making it an hour a day, 6 days a week, so I still should be able to work a regular job (which is fantastic, since this week I’ve had several places express interest – tomorrow I’m interviewing as Executive Assistant at The Alzheimer’s Association, yay for nonprofit work! Also have had interest expressed by a celebrity author/animal rights activist (PA), aerospace company (EA) and medical management company (EA).
Sooooo… things are looking up! Which is great, because it cost quite a bit to fix my car (just finished today) and now Matt and I are running incredibly low on funds (although much better than we would be, thanks to the super-generous people who sent us donations), but it doesn’t even matter right now because I’m so ecstatic! I have the awesomest internship that will make my CV look fantastic, and I’m likely to get a decent-paying job within the week
Poor Matt. He’s been such a trouper. I woke him up this morning gasping/screaming/flailing madly, having stumbled upon my own story on Save The Assistants (awesome blog run by awesome people; I highly recommend checking it out!) Poor guy bolted upright all bleary-eyed and panicked, terrified that something was horribly, deathly wrong. He was a very good sport about it though, and he’s very happy for me, though I’ve been ignoring him all day in favor of job applications, internship freakouts on FB and Twitter, and picking up propane/milk for us. So I think I should probably sign off now and go give him some attention and cuddles.
Cheers and much love to my readers!
~Bri