Number of jobs I applied for from April 2008-June 2009: approximately 45.

Number of interviews: 3

Number of job offers: 0

Number of jobs I applied for from July 2009 (when I decided to take a break from job searching for six months) through October 2009: 1, on a whim

Number of interviews: 1

Number of job offers: 1

So the new job: still at the university, just an official administrative position (as opposed to "staff") and I'll be working for an independent center within the university. It's a relatively new center, so there's lots of room to grow and figure things out as we go along, which suits me perfectly; it also has it's own endowment, independent of the university, so there are certain perks like the gorgeous Upper East Side brownstone in which I will now be working, and the soon-to-be-hired chef who will be making our common meal for lunch every day. And much of the small staff is closer to my age, which makes it a bit more like the old days at CTE when I was working with Emm and the graduate students.

I don't think the commute will be as bad as it appears: it's obviously further away, and I'll have to change trains, but I can take the 4/5 so I'm hoping it will only be an extra 15-20 minutes, not a full half hour. I'm also excited about being a block from the Met and Central Park, and within walking distance of the 92nd St. Y, which may become my new place for ballet class if it gets to be too difficult to get back to Brooklyn on time on Thursdays.

Anyway, I still have about three weeks left at my current job, which was going to be busy enough with all the events we have coming up, and is now going to include lots of extra planning, organizing, and making sure someone knows how to cover the projects I've been in charge of. I was crazy excited yesterday; today I'm a bit more realistic about how much there is to be done. Still, I'm feeling pretty good about life this week.