The state of the Siena

[sienamystic]

So. These are the things that have been occupying my life, and which have been the source of many angsty emails and phone calls to friends, sleepless nights, and long conversations with my husband.

1. I am going to start a new job on January 2.
2. This job is in Lincoln, Nebraska.
3. Lincoln is a long way from here. But much cheaper to live. And husband could potentially get a masters without us going deeper into debt. And I'd be working for a cool place.
4. My leasing company will probably charge us a month's rent for breaking the lease. This is a good thing, because the other possibility is that it's two month's rent. We will be hoping very hard that that is not the case.
5. I'm still on track to officially get my MA in December. Have made contact with my second reader, who seems very uninterested in being a hardass about it - as she put it, it's a thesis, not a paper, and The Diva (my first reader) can be trusted to have caught anything egregious.
6. Returning to the first topic, the idea of a new job is scary, but also exciting. And the move is scary, but also exciting.
7. As part of the move, we will probably trade in both cars on a new/newer used car. We were thinking about the Suzuki SX because of the good warranty and generally good reviews, but apparently it accelerated like a dead rabbit. The Honda Fit has been in the running, but so has the Honda Element. We're trying to meld good gas mileage and a decent amount of cargo space (Bemo may need to haul music equipment, plus we'd need it for the cross-country drive, which will be complete with three howling cats in the back.)
8. The next few months are going to be CRAZED.
9. I have to write up my "I'm leaving soon" letter for work. But I think that can wait a few weeks until things there have settled down - we're currently in the midst of frantic exhibit installation/storage projects. I've never done one before.

Comments

I hope everything goes really well for you.

[dakiwiboid.livejournal.com]

Here's wishing you the strength, health, patience and love to get through all those trials to the rewards beyond!

Re: I hope everything goes really well for you.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the good wishes! I could use a lot of everything you mentioned *g*

[swooop.livejournal.com]

Ah, I had heard that congratters were in order, but as I had heard nothing official from you *coughs* I didn't want to say anything. But now I can, so congratters.

And you don't want a Suzuki. They have no oomph.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

I was, as the kiddies say, keeping it on the down-low, mostly because up until very recently, I wasn't sure what was going to happen. If they couldn't give me any money to move, for example, I'd have had to tell them thanks but no thanks. They aren't going to be paying me enough for me to get into deep debt. So it's only now that I feel ok talking about it in greater detail, at least safely friendslocked!

Of course, I've been bombarding natalieann with questions *g*

"CRAZED"?

[max-und-moritz.livejournal.com]

You have a gift for understatement o.O At least everything (or just about) seems to be on the positive side ;)

Suggest you start catching up on sleep pre-emptively :p

Re: "CRAZED"?

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Heh, exactly. It's mostly all good things, but they all involve big changes. Biiiiiig changes. The new job is about a three day drive away, in an area that I know nothing about, but I have it on the word of several people that it's a pleasant town to live in - and it's so much cheaper than this area that the possibility of actually buying a house has materialized. (That's something that I could never dream of here without actual divine intervention.)

[nigita.livejournal.com]

Cheaper place to live sounds really, really good. And Yay for a reasonable second reader.

Bring your earplugs for the drive! I'll definitely be thinking of you. I think of you many mornings these days, when the chorus of miserable yowling starts up at our place, and I'm wondering whether my cats are wishing they had hands and a baseball bat...

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Lordy, I have no idea how we're going to handle the drive. Three miserable cats, one of whom poops within ten minutes of being put in the car.

[rantipole6.livejournal.com]

I wish I could say I was excited for you that you'll be living in Nebraska...except that it's Nebraska. I think I wrote a post some time ago about how boring and stinky Nebraska is. But maybe you'll find something to like about it and prove my snobbish prejudices wrong.

[sienamystic.livejournal.com]

Well, the people I know who have lived in Lincoln love it unabashedly.