Squee! I got the job! I got the job! I’m going to be an Editor for the Office of the Legislative Counsel of the State of Georgia!
I’m gonna get paid to be a Grammar Nazi, with full health benefits and everything! And I’ll actually be doing something that I consider worthwhile, making legalese more accessible to lay people. Plus, I’ll be working with glenn5, who’s the wonderful-fabulous-awesome person who recommended me for the position in the first place!
Happy dancing in the streets!! I’ll be working in the beautiful Georgia State Capitol building. When I went in on Wednesday for the test/interview, I was ga-ga to wander around the place to soak in the ambiance. Rose marble! Sweeping staircases! Ancient, dark-wood furniture! Writerly inspiration galore!
I’m going to celebrate by buying a new pair of shoes.
W00T!!
Congrats!!
The World needs more grammar police, especially the lawyers…
Re: W00T!!
Thanks, sweetie!
Nice going, Eugie !!
Thank you!
Fantastic, congrats!
Thanks!
Don’t you mean “legalese”?
I’ll be working with,
Beth told me that when she recommended your hiring to Sewell, our big boss, she told him “the only thing that gives me pause about her is that she’s apparently really excited about working with Glenn.”
“Don’t you mean “legalese”?“
Beth told me that when she recommended your hiring to Sewell, our big boss, she told him “the only thing that gives me pause about her is that she’s apparently really excited about working with Glenn.”
Hee! But who else will catch me out on my tyops?
Woo! Congratulations on the job!
Thank you!
Congratulations!!!! That is wonderful!
Thanks! I’m totally jazzed!
Congratulations!!!
Thank you!
Huzzah!!!!
Huzzah! (And happy dancing!)
Congratulations!
Thanks!
Well, good on yez!
Thank you, thank you!
Wow! That’s awesome! It sounds like a great job in a great place — and I’m sure those health benefits will be a load off your mind.
Congratulations!
Thanks, sweetie! It is, ye verily, a huge load off my mind. I feel all light and bouncey with relief.
Woo hoo! Congratulations!
Woohoo! Thanks!
Yay! Congratulations!
Thanks, sweetie!
Wonderful 🙂 Congrats!
Thank you!
Rose marble? Health benefits? The ability to annihilate bad grammar with a single DELETE stroke?
That’s fantastic.
Congratulations.
You will be amazing.
Thanks! Actually getting paid to do work I love and am good at. Yowza. It sounds too good to be true!
Congratulations, Eugie! Clean up that legalese.
Thanks, Richard! And aye aye! Swabbing down that legal-speak to make it shiny, sir!
This is awesome! Huge congrats!
Thanks, sweetie!
Congratulations!
Thank you!
How WONDERFUL!!! I’m so thrilled for you!! What a load off your mind that must be, eh? 🙂
*hugs*
Thanks, sweetie! And it’s a load off my mind like a 1K lb gorilla off my foot, YES!
w000t!! that’s AWESOME! congrats!!
haha, being hobbyist grammar nazi myself, i’ve often wondered how professional grammar nazis get their jobs…
Thanks, sweetie! And it would seems that Grammar Nazis get their jobs the same way as everyone else: networking and luck!
With all your editing hats, it’s a wonder you don’t topple over more often.
Congrats, Eugie! 🙂
Thank you! And the extra hats is why I keep the extra heads around, mwa ha ha haaa!
Congrats on the new job!
Thank you!
Awesome! That sounds wonderful, and what a building!! Congratulations to you!
Thanks! And the building is even more gorgeous in person. Yowza. No more sterile cubicles for me!
Yay! That’s awesome!
Thanks! I’m absolutely thrilled!
Squee squee squee!
That’s awesome. I am so happy for you.
Thanks, sweetie! Squee!
Congratulations!
Thank you!
Wow! Now you’re like “The Man.” Except you’re a woman. So … go you!
Oh, and congratulations. 😉
M
Thanks! I think I count as just working for The Man. Although, hey, since I’ll be an employee of the state, wouldn’t that be “The People”?
Yay! Now hurry up and make more money so you can hire me as a personal chef. And no, I will NOT live in the downstairs closet or hottub room, thankyouverymuch.
Hmm. We’ve got a nice walk-in closet upstairs . . . and we’re still calling you “Cook.”
You can call me Lucy if it gets me a steady paycheck and some hottub time.
“Lucy,” huh? That has an amusing ring to it . . .
There better be a paycheck attached to that name, hon. ‘sall I’m sayin’. 😉
It’s important for a man to know his price
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And the price for that crack is…
I bite you. Grr!
Re: And the price for that crack is…
Ouch! Bad badger, no bite! Owie-ow. *bap your nose*
Mazel tov!
Thanks!
Excellent news! Can you be the punctuation police as well as the grammar Nazi?
I think “Punctuation Police” gets added to my job classification only after a promotion
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That is *wonderful* news, Eugie!!!!!! Congratulations!!!!!! 😀
Thanks, Maggie! I’ve been breaking into spontaneous happy dances all day!
CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thank you!
Congrats!
Eugie,
That’s wonderful news. You’ve fulfilled all our writerly ambitions of having a day job that acually has something to do with writing. And with State benefits to boot. By the way, any chance they use freelancers?
Re: Congrats!
Thanks, James! I don’t think the state uses freelancers, but if anything pops up, I’ll definitely let you know.
Re: Congrats!
Thanks, Eugie. And thanks again for the referral.
CONGRATS!!!
Wonderful job for a wonderful woman!!!
Love & Hugs,
FahKingNut
Thank you, sweetie!
Yippee, hooray! Congrats, seriously. Steady gigs are awesome. Steady gigs that let you use your writerly skills are even more awesome.
Thank you! Yep, yep. This is pretty much my dream job, work-wise. Well, right after NYT Bestselling Author.
Excellent! Congratulations!
Getting full health benefits is a very good thing, even with a substantial cut in pay from your previous job with State Farm.
My own job hunting has not yielded any results. I haven’t heard back from my phone interview with DivX. I am reworking my resume and sending it to a Microsoft recruiter who contacted me. (Nothing to get exited about, they cast a very wide net.) I am also repacking my resume for a San Diego position at Sony.
Your news makes it easier to keep going on my own search.
Thanks, Dean! And good luck with your job search. With your skills and experience, I’m sure you’ll be snapped up, right soon!
How Faboooo!!!!
I’ve been happy dancing all day!
Yay! Congratulations!!! So happy for you!!!
–Jodi
Thanks, Jodi! I’m pretty happy for me too!
Congratulations, O newest Official Grammar Nazi of the ranks!
Thank you, thank you!
Congrats, you!
Thanks!
BOO YAW! *confetti*
*dances in the confetti* Woot!
*lowers the disco ball as well!* 😉
Congratulations!
Thanks, sweetie!
Oh, and the 2-headed goat. Can’t forget about the 2-headed goat.
Erm, is that something I need to buy, or a feature of the Capitol I somehow managed to overlook?
On the second floor of the Capital is a small Georgia history/archive/artifact room. Appearently, it’s part serious history and partially a bit of a side-show. The exhibit that always is the favorite of the visiting schoolkids is a 2-headed goat (may be a sheep or cow….can’t quite remember but it’s some kind of bifurcated barnyard dweller).
Wow. I’m going to be working in a building with a mini-freak show in it. That is so cool! And, of course, perverted curiosity is going to impel me to seek this two-headed critter out. A two-headed goat. Huh.
I don’t think that anyone would describe the Georgia legislature as a “mini” freakshow.
At least that circus only runs 40 days a year (unless they have to come back to ban gay marriage or something).
WOO HOO!!! Congrats!
Thanks! Woot!
oh most definitely get a new pair of shoes! congrats!
Thanks! And yepper, I is going shopping!
Congratulations!
Thank you!
That’s awesome! Congratulations!
Thank you!
Congratulations!!
Thanks!
ok, I admit, I waited to post this because i’m cheesy and wanted to be 100 .. 😛
*hug* congrats Eugie!! 🙂
We’re going to have to to lunch downtown!!
“I waited to post this because i’m cheesy and wanted to be 100 .. 😛“
Thanks, you geek!
And we definitely need to have lunch sometime.
FANTASTIC!!!
I’m so happy for you. Full health benefits so rock!
Thanks, Suzanne. I’m very relieved as well as excited about this job. Yay for health benefits!
But… but… what KIND of shoes? Post a picture? They should be spectacular. You go, girl.
(And yay! I’m impressed and encouraged!)
Hee, thanks! I haven’t bought the shoes yet. I’m debating whether to get a purse instead.
Giddy Dance Time!!!!
Congratulations, Eugie!
WooHoo!!!
Thanks, Scott. And ho-yeah, there was much happy dancing! Woot!
::cheer:: I am so happy for you 🙂
Thanks, sweetie! *hugs*
Yay!! Congrats!!
Thank you!
Congratulations!
Thanks!
Oh, Eugie, that’s awesome!! :huggles: I’m so happy for you–and what a relief about the health coverage!! Squee, squee!!
Thanks, Keesa! *huggles back* I’m very, very relived to have the security of group health insurance again, and I’m overjoyed to actually have a job I’ll enjoy doing. Woohoo!
Oh, Eugie, that is the BEST!!! ALL your waiting was worth it in the end, and I am so pleased for you!!! Congratulations!
Thanks, sweetie! I’m so relieved and excited about this job!
Wooo hoooo! Congratulations!
*still happy dancing* Thank you!
That is absolutely awesome news! Whatta job!
Thanks! I’m totally jazzed.
Woo hoo! Congrats!
Woohoo indeed! Thanks!
Hey, a big congrats #132. If you respond to this, I say you are even more miraculous than I already knew you were. New shoes? How about a whole new, editorly ensemble? If I can ever be any help with the legalese end, let me know.