Good News

I have lots to blog about from the last few weeks, but I'll share my exciting school/work-related news first:

About a month ago, my friend Alison, who works in the very cool Center for Social Media at school, was asked to recommend any people she knew who might be a good fit for the Center's Fellowship program. She recommended me (as did a couple of my professors), and I was brought in soon after to interview for the program. Destpite interviewing in the middle of my final hell week--when I hadn't slept in two days and I was running around with a painfully throbbing MRSA-filled abscess on my leg--I had felt like the interview went well. It went well enough, anyway, that they offered me some short-term employment over the break, while they were short-staffed.

Cut to today, when in the middle of a conversation with the woman I'd initially interviewed with (about my continuing to do some work this semester for the Center), I asked her when they would be deciding about the Fellowships. Shocked, she replied, "But I thought you knew! No one told you? We're offering the Fellowship to you!"

Needless to say, this is really fantastic news, and I'm very excited. The Fellowship will partly pay for school for the next two years, and I'll get two years of working with the other folks in the Center for Social Media, which is right up my alley!