so who’s got two thumbs and a soft offer for an analyst position with the systems team at work? this guy.

the hiring manager had scheduled me for a 30-minute meeting today to let me know the news; it’s a “soft offer” right now because she hadn’t yet told the folks who didn’t get the job that they hadn’t gotten the job, and she’s still waiting on some details from HR (salary, start date, etc.), but she wanted to let me know so at least i knew what the status was. she planned to tell the other folks today and tomorrow, and i think she said that she expects the details from HR by friday, so i should know more about it then. from looking at glassdoor.com, seems like it may be anywhere from $50-60k, which will be a nice increase in pay to go with it. i hate negotiating pay, though. bleh.

until i hear more, officially i can’t confirm or deny my new job at work, but unofficially, :).

this means now that i can more seriously look at graduate school this fall, since i didn’t want to apply if i was going to be switching jobs, but since i’ll still get my tuition paid for? hell yez.

ran for 4 miles today after work, plotted out a route through the neighborhood and around the trail next to the house that came out exactly to 4 miles, nice. of course, the number that really counts is “3”, which is the number of times i saw cute girls while out running. well, “saw” is a relative term, because by the end of my run all my sweat was running down into my eyes (i can’t wear my glasses when i run) and it burned so much and i could barely open my eyes once i finished that there had better be a chemistry-lab-style eyewash station once i finish my 10k run. 😛

still making preparations for friday. after the run and my shower i headed out for some quick errands. first off, i needed new boxer shorts (contain yourselves, ladies) since one of my pairs was in a sad state, starting to wear thin. i figured that uncrate always has some good guy recommendations, and so i bought some pairs of these and boy howdy they’re so damn comfortable i’m buying more.

next up was the adidas store at the mall to supplement my one pair of running shorts with some more so i don’t have to wash it immediately after each run so i can wear it again on my following run. bought two pairs of running shorts that were 30% off, nice.

last was a stop at the grocery store to pick up some bathroom cleaning supplies and to stock up my toiletry kit for the trip. i had accumulated a ton of toiletries from various travels and it was time to clean my bag out and get some fresh ones in, so i did. i gave my bathroom a good cleaning too, and let me say that i am such a fan of being lazy that i am equally a fan of things that do my cleaning for me, like my scrubbing bubbles shower spray. LOVE IT. anyway, bathroom is looking much better now that i’ve bleached and reorganized and cleaned out the medicine cabinet so i can actually use it and not be afraid of opening it. seriously, i didn’t even use the medicine cabinet since it was kind of gross looking and had an old tube of toothpaste and other stuff like a flyer advertising an olympics-themed collectible market that was going to be held at savage mill… in 1997.

time to fold up these clothes that just came out of the dryer and then head off to bed. need to take care of quite a few things after work tomorrow, and the day is just going to crawl by.