J is for Job
It’s been a long time on the alphabet update, I know. The letter J had me stumped for a while, and then I was out of town, and just now - really, NOW - I realized that J stands for Job.
My job for ten years has been variations on the term "librarian." I’ve worked at Louisiana State University, a state school in Iowa (neither of the 2 you probably can name), and Swarthmore College in suburban Philadelphia. And for a long time, I thought I’d be at Swarthmore for a long time - like ten or more years. But one thing happens, and then another happens, and then life decisions get made, and then all of a sudden Amy and the dogs and I find ourselves driving up to Boston on Wednesday night so we can look for an apartment within 30 driving minutes of Wellesley College, where I will start working at my new job in mid-February.
I’m very excited about this change, for a whole slew of reasons. And I’m equally saddened by leaving Swarthmore and Philadelphia. I like my life here, a LOT. My co-workers are wonderful, the campus community - while imprefect - is familiar and comfortable, I’ve got wonderful friends I met through knitting and hockey and work, and Amy and I both have our first purchased homes here. And yet, yet. Boston. 90 minutes to family. Friends from college (Amy) and grad school (me). And a job that’s going to challenge me in all the right sorts of ways, with people who I very much liked at my interview, on a beautiful campus in a lovely suburb outside of an amazing city in a state that will legally recognize a committed relationship between my love and me.
So we were in town for a couple of days and found a dog-friendly apartment in a part of Boston that we both like. Our lease runs till the end of summer, by which point we want to have sold both our houses and found a house to buy somewhere nearer to campus. And I leave soon - in 3 weeks - to start my new job. Amy comes a couple of weeks later, after she’s done with her next spate of classes. I can’t wait!
Laura said,
January 15, 2006 @ 8:29 am
I meant to email you and tell you congratulations. Instead I’ll do it publicly. Congratulations! It sounds like a very exciting opporunity. I do hope you’ll keep blogging so we can keep up with you.
naomi said,
January 15, 2006 @ 9:25 am
I wish you the best of luck with your move. And I’m sure there’s a decent community of knitters in Boston, like the one here…
Adelnye said,
January 15, 2006 @ 1:08 pm
Wow!! Huge decisions…. but somehow I know that things will work out just the way you want them to be, for you are one of the few people whom I truly believe deserve all good things that come your way. One of the things which I often enjoy reading in your entries is how much you love your job!! ^_^
Sugarmags said,
January 15, 2006 @ 1:26 pm
OH! I am so happy for you and Amy! You are going to LOVE Boston!! I went to a 2 year school about a half hour from Boston and went to B-town every weekend on the T.
The city is so wonderful and full of great food, great shopping, art and lots of wonderful experiences!
I hope that Maggie and Otter love it too!
All the best and I hope that you write about the move, the new job and all the new restaurants you try!
Christine and Maggie
sim said,
January 16, 2006 @ 11:11 am
welcome to boston-land! we’re looking forward to having you! if you need anything at all, feel free to get in touch.
tammy said,
January 16, 2006 @ 11:11 am
WOW! So happy for y’all! HUGS!
Michelle said,
January 16, 2006 @ 1:02 pm
Congratulations Megan. How incredible and exiting. Boston sounds like an amazing place to live, and as you mentioned your relationship will be recognized, which is so special! I am so happy for you and for Amy too. Good luck with the transition, the move, the selling of the houses, etc. I hope you love the new job and feel comfortable and at home in Beantown!
Jess (in Boston) said,
January 17, 2006 @ 10:12 am
Hi Megan!
I’m a new reader — came to your site through your post to the Boston SnB list. Welcome to town! And if your new place happens to be in Jamaica Plain, that’s my ‘hood — feel free to email me and I’d be happy to show you and Amy some neat-o local spots! Good luck with the move — it’s great that you’re so excited
Sasha said,
January 17, 2006 @ 10:42 am
Me and the rest of your fan club here will be sad to see you go, but that sounds pretty wonderful. I hope it works out for the best!
dichroic said,
January 17, 2006 @ 11:12 am
Congratulations on both the job and the engagement! (A quicker way to say “announcement of a committed lifelong relationship”).
librarygrrrl.net » Blog Archive » L is for Lunacy! said,
January 27, 2006 @ 11:25 am
[...] And February 10? Well, that’s just a few short days after I move into a new place, after Amy and I pack up our houses and move 350+ miles to a new city where we will put the bulk of our possessions into a storage unit and will try to figure out how to merge the rest of our stuff into a 7-month rental in a city I’ve never lived in before. And then just 3 days after the Knitting Olympics begin, I will start that new job I wrote about earlier and trust me when I say that I will be brain-dead at the end of each day and how on EARTH do I think that I’m going to be able to knit up 400 yards of heathery navy blue and heathery purple corriedale wool into a multidirectional diagonal scarf? In 16 days? [...]