Five years of kicking my ass, one week of making up for it.

Just so's you know upfront, y'all: this post is hideously self-absorbed.

Anybody who's lived in New York can tell you the same old chestnut. "New York is expensive. Hot in the summer, cold in the winter. I'm ignored by the powerful and harangued by the crazy. Many are prettier, famouser, talenteder, richer, or saner than I, while others frottage me on the L train. I am always running out of socks, hope, and money! What's more, daily, whether I mean to or not, I see at least one dog taking a shit. Never the same dog twice. Never the same dog twice!"

...Actually, I don't know why that should bother me, the never-the-same-dog-twice thing. Why should I want to watch the same dog shitting repeatedly? Because it would mean that I would have an ongoing relationship with one dog, rather than brief, nasty street encounters with anonymous dogs?

Anyhoo, New York, New York, big city of dreams, after five years of beating me senseless, just gave me a hot, lickery kiss. I've landed a job at the New School, as Assistant to the University Librarian. I found out Tuesday. Y'all, I've been trying to get a job at the New School for TWO YEARS. My first interview for a position was in August of '03. I've applied for 48 different jobs since, and have interviewed for four. My friend Noel says at this point they would've had to either hire me or get a restraining order. Decent pay, excellent healthcare and vacation benefits, and FREE TUITION. I'm about two semesters shy of a B.A. So I start my job on Wednesday, then will fuckin' MATRICULATE! (oh my God, is that the right word?) in January. I'm scared, but it's a new, fun brand of scared; opportunity is knocking, and it's startling me somewhat.

Some other cool shit happened to me in the last week, too, stay tuned for CELEBRITY DIRT! (Preview blind item: what dirty-toofed former Austinite was seen coked up and wearing a ginormous shearling coat in ninety degree weather recently? Hint: it wasn't me.)

(TECHNICAL INTERRUPTION: OK, so, I tried to link to the theme song from Mary Tyler Moore, up there. I couldn't find a page that just played it when you linked to it, though, so I audioblogged it by downloading it to iTunes it then played it from my computer speaker into my cel phone. If you, Barbara, can find me a link to that song, let me know in the comments. I know it sounds like shit in the audioblog. I know, I know.)