Thankful

I am actually thankful to not be in Austin during SXSW and St. Patrick's Day madness. I really am not a big fan of SXSW since I'm not a music person. For me, it just meant that there was more traffic, lots of people who were too cool for school, and no parking downtown.

I had a lovely taco night with Julie and Nako. We used the taco seasoning Kristin was nice enough to send me and made tacos with ground beef, red beans (no pinto beans here), corn and flour tortillas (which were are not as good as in Texas, but you work with what you've got), tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, avocado, and sour cream. Delicious. We had the Breton version of tortillas for dessert...crêpes! That's why I love France.

I had a job interview with the private business school in Rennes. As always, there were a few more things I could have said, but it lasted an hour and a half, so I think that's a good sign. The woman did a lot of talking. Turns out the women I met with in December (who is the one who told me to forward my résumé) is the head of the department and would be my boss, so I guess it's good that she liked me enough to tell me to send my resume on to the HR Manager. The job would be working managing the exchange agreements between the school and partner schools abroad. I think that would be a nice mix of business and academic settings. It would be a permanent contract starting this summer, and they could sponsor me for a visa. Perfect for me.

Unfortunately, I was missing a few of the skills they were looking for (advanced knowledge of Excel and Word and previous experience negotiating contracts...though I stressed I'd done some negotiating with vendors and unofficial negotiation with students), so we'll see. I probably won't know anything more for another 3 to 6 weeks. She said she had 6 candidates to interview, and I was the first.

Fingers crossed.