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I have a job interview!!! On Thursday! WITH THE BEST JOB EVER!! (Knitting! Writing! Moderating online knit-alongs and helping knitters over the internet! FOR A JOB. SERIOUSLY.)

They called to ask what my online experience was with moderating stuff. Who says fandom never gets you anywhere? I told them about the yahoo!groups and livejournal communities that I started/moderate (without giving details -- because, seriously, sheppard_n_weir would do more harm than good) and they were all "that's exactly what we need!" They asked if I ever help other people in my role as moderator and was all "omg, I edit stories for people!" and they were all "Oooooh!" YAY FANDOM OMG YOU WIN. (I believe I said "groups related to television shows and also to novice writers" instead of "societies for the proliferation of pornographic fanfic.")

I need to bring to my interview A SELECTION OF THINGS I HAVE KNIT!

( babbling on that! a lot! of babbling! )

I'm also thinking that I could overachieve and take pictures and write sample step-out instructions of whatever project I do this weekend as a sample, since doing projects just like that is the core of the job. I am SO okay with being branded a suck-up if it lands me THE BEST JOB EVER (tm). (I'd post it, of course, so you guys could mock and/or use.)

In case they don't think I am cool enough, I also have an intake interview with a higher-end (legal, hr, admin) placement agency on Monday. I get to do online proficiency testing after work today.

Talk knitting with me, guys! :)

Things that are great!

1) People did my meme! I now feel that I have value as a human.

2) I have started knitting Starsky from knitty.com. There are MANY joyous things about this. First of all, I am using yarn from a past aborted sweater project, so yay, it's like free! And I can feel speshul because the pattern is rated D for Death "extraspicy," but I still get to avoid all the major knitting hangups I have (read: colorwork, weirdo textured yarn, sweater-knitting without a pattern). The last few (okay, more than few) sweater projects of mind died on the needles because I was DETERMINED to knit without a pattern, so I'm hoping the warmfuzziness of being told what to do again will keep me engaged until I actually finish it!

3) My wisdom teeth of doom are actually starting to heal! I am no longer a freak of medical science! I am still told to Expect Pain for a good long while, but WHATEV, not-a-freak-of-medical-science-yay.

Bestest thing the first: JAKE 2.0 on Sci-Fi tonight!! I have been elated about this all week, because it is THE MOST JOYFUL SHOW EVER and I have been kicking myself for not obsessively taping that one poor half a year that it was on the air.

Bestest thing the second: ... I GOT MY RAISE!!! And there are details and compromises and I didn't get scheduled time for real estate classes and my overtime privileges have been curtailed but NONE OF THAT MATTERS because they TOTALLY gave me more than I ever thought they were going to!! And I get a suhweet bonus if I get my real estate license (on my own time, since no scheduling help) by April 1.

I am so buying a breakfast bagel for lunch.

And then TONIGHT, I will take sister out to celebrate, probably at The Only Sonic Restaurant Within The State Of Oregon That Just Opened Only Two Miles From Our Apartment Because Gira Made A Deal With The Devil. Then home to watch Jake 2.0 and work on bestest thing #3: FABULOUS socks I'm knitting from expensivo Socks That Rock yarn that I got for Christmas! I'm designing the pattern as I go, which involves a lot of ripping back and re-knitting the heel turn until I find the one I like best. (Dutch heels? Not so much.) After doing sock knitting on two circular needles (which I admittedly thought was The Best Invention Evarr at the time), I can't tell you how blissful it is to be working on bamboo dpns (also for Christmas from The Second Set Of Parents). No tangling and searching for ends and... it's just delish. The colorway is awesome, and there will be pictures when I'm done and a pattern if anyone's interested!