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I will blog a bit about Mexico, if you want me to. But before, let's rewind to Friday, February 5 2010. The day before we were leaving for Cancun. Before lunch, I received a call from the Fed, asking if I was interested in a 3 month contract position. Remember the '3 strikes you're out' deal? Well I wasn't ready for my second strike yet.. PLUS, okay, it's only a 3 month contract, but my current contract with the Prov. ends in June anyway. And I have learned that this is not a medical leave this time. So it feels like less of a gamble. So I said I was interested. The more I learned about this position, the more excited I got. It actually sounds interesting to me! I WANT this job! I wouldn't just be taking it because that's what I think others think I should do.. I actually do want this one.

They are looking to fill the position ASAP, so she asked me if I would be available for an interview next week? I carefully explained that I was flying to Cancun in the morning, and staying the week... biting my lower lip and hoping for the best. She said : Oh! I'm going the week after! Let me talk to the Marketing Director and see what we can do. So she called me back 15 minutes later and asked me if I could go that very day for an interview. I said that I had a meeting shortly, but that I could go after that. The only thing was, I was in jeans and wouldn't have the time to go home to change.. she said "Oh no problem, we're all in jeans too, it's Jeans Friday!" That was my first interview in jeans. But I have to say, that I couldn't have picked a better 'interview in my jeans' outfit. I was feeling confident and pretty.

I think the interview went pretty well. At first, during the phone call, I was lead to believe that this position involved writing press releases, which I was STOKED about! I mean, writing IS my strong point. I love writing. I love blogging. My coworkers definitely would agree. (Please don't think that am as thorrough and careful on this blog as I can be.. sometimes I just want my fingers to furiously type away what I'm thinking or feeling, and feel that if I re-read myself I might want to censure myself or become self conscious and delete things that would take some of the emotional value away. This blog is a lot more 'me' than the 'me' I display 'in real life', for that reason.) Once there, I learned that it was more proofreading and editing, and having the documents go through all the appropriate approval steps which the appropriate tracking systems.. but I still find the position really interesting. The people there seem really normal. non-boring. Chatty and smily. I think I'd fit in.

Since then, I've received a security clearance (background/criminal check) form to fill and went to deliver it in person yesterday. Thursday I have my Oral Interaction Language Test, in my second language, English. I'm not that worried about passing that test. I hope I didn't jinx myself by saying that. They have mentionned a few times that they can't "make an offer before receiving my security clearance and Oral Test results".... and I've learned that there's only a few candidates... so I think that I actually have a good chance... FINGERS CROSSED Please!! 

Either way, this whole process made me kind of realize that maybe writing could play a part in what I want to do when I grow up. Isn't that a HUGE thing? You know my eternal struggle with lack of career direction/desires... I was discussing this with Steph; I know that I wouldn't like to be a journalist. It would be unrealistic for me to aim to be an novelist. But why couldn't I aim to, someday, be the one who writes press releases in the communications department of some big company, or government department?