What a day.
Jul. 10th, 2007 12:13 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackofallgeeksI have much less energy now than I did earlier, but... wow, what a day. I'm feeling a little overwhelmed, and 'all' I have is two classes and my Thesis. One class promises to be very heavy in reading, the other promises to be... well, intellectually trying at least. And my thesis has to be finished and signed off in a little over two and a half months! Argh!
But I got some news today that charged me full of excited/anxious energy. It turns out that I'm not set to graduate on September 28th as I've believed, but rather a week earlier on September 21st! It's easy to see why this might make me nervous -- it's a week less to do my thesis, and that truly frightens me. But there's a bright side.
There are some half-dozen labs and departments that want to hire me when I graduate. This is great, except that their fiscal year ends Sept 30th, and if I graduate on the 28th then I can't start until fiscal year 2008 and *that* has proven to be all sorts of problematic. But that single week extra means that I can technically start in '07, with 'technically' being the operative word -- as my program manager noted to me, I could have the first week or so set as "leave without pay" so that I can take the necessary time to move out there and avoid any troubles with lining up pay periods, *actually* start working on October 1st but still be an '07 hire.
Among other things, this means that I just might be able the get the job I really want, that consulting-type job I mentioned, which was looking dimmer and dimmer as it seemed more likely that I'd be an '08 hire. That one week makes all the difference, it seems.
I'm exhausted now, but all afternoon my heart was going a mile a minute and I couldn't hardly sit still I was so charged. I'm set up now for an abrupt crash when even the next negative event hits -- course work overcoming me, my thesis adviser shooting me down, not being able to get the job I want regardless -- but for the great majority of today I've been happy.
But I got some news today that charged me full of excited/anxious energy. It turns out that I'm not set to graduate on September 28th as I've believed, but rather a week earlier on September 21st! It's easy to see why this might make me nervous -- it's a week less to do my thesis, and that truly frightens me. But there's a bright side.
There are some half-dozen labs and departments that want to hire me when I graduate. This is great, except that their fiscal year ends Sept 30th, and if I graduate on the 28th then I can't start until fiscal year 2008 and *that* has proven to be all sorts of problematic. But that single week extra means that I can technically start in '07, with 'technically' being the operative word -- as my program manager noted to me, I could have the first week or so set as "leave without pay" so that I can take the necessary time to move out there and avoid any troubles with lining up pay periods, *actually* start working on October 1st but still be an '07 hire.
Among other things, this means that I just might be able the get the job I really want, that consulting-type job I mentioned, which was looking dimmer and dimmer as it seemed more likely that I'd be an '08 hire. That one week makes all the difference, it seems.
I'm exhausted now, but all afternoon my heart was going a mile a minute and I couldn't hardly sit still I was so charged. I'm set up now for an abrupt crash when even the next negative event hits -- course work overcoming me, my thesis adviser shooting me down, not being able to get the job I want regardless -- but for the great majority of today I've been happy.
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Date: 2007-07-10 06:22 pm (UTC)