The City of Dis is my destiny!

The Dante's Inferno Test has banished you to the Sixth Level of Hell - The City of Dis!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	High
Level 2 (Lustful)	Moderate
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Very Low
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	High
Level 7 (Violent)	Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Moderate

Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test
Thanks to Q for referring his readers to this fun diversion.

Started my new job today. Hooray! I'm gainfully employed!

Thanks to all who offered encouragement during this dry spell. It's been a rough month-and-a-half and we're not 'in the clear' yet - but we're not going to go bankrupt this week, either.

The hours are terrific and the environment is great. I must have met about twenty people in the office and they all seemed happy to be there. Several of them told me that it was a great place to work, even though they work hard. The only downside is that it doesn't pay anything close to what I was aiming for.

I won't say much about the job at this time, except that it is at the University of Delaware and that it is accounting work. I don't want to divulge information that could, for all I know, be priviledged. I may reveal more at a later time.

Oh, and another drawback is that I am not employed directly by the university at this time. Rather, I am working through a staffing service. With luck, I will get hired on quickly and get a pay raise, but I'm not going to assume that will happen. So, I will still be sending resumes out, albeit a little more selectively because of the new time constraints.

In other news, Simcha fell off a chair yesterday and injured her face quite badly on the cheek. We almost took her to the hospital. There were no symptoms of bone damage however, and after some time she was eating and talking as normal, so we chose to just monitor her closely. (If we had insurance, there would have been no decision to make - I would have taken her to the ER in a heartbeat.) Anyway, her cheek is still swollen today, and turning all sorts of Christmassy colors.

new pictures

I posted some new photos on Snaars In Pictures (the link is in the sidebar). I don't know why I wasn't able to do it before. I didn't do anything different this time. Enjoy!

Settled. Not!

Quite unsettled, actually. It's been the awfulest move ever. I would like to tell you a cheery tale of sunshine and roses, but I have committed myself to remaining true to you, my faithful readers. I know that Snaars fans are happy, well-adjusted folk, who would never want to read about such unpleasant things as tearful goodbyes, a brake pedal held up by a bungee cord, interminable car rides, belongings that smell of gasoline, unemployment, officious bank tellers, and mounting bills.

So I'll skip all that and tell you how we're doing now.

I and Michelle and our two darlings live in a room in the home of Michelle's parents. Most of our things are in storage.

I was hoping to have a job about two weeks after moving in. We passed the two-week mark Friday night and I have no job, despite having disseminated dozens of resumees. ('Disseminated' here means I gave the resumes out to prospective employers.) Our money is quickly running out and I wonder how I am going to pay bills at the end of the month. *

I did have a job interview with a temporary agency. They specialize in finance and accounting. I have very little experience in that area but I passed some testing with flying colors. I was told that there is a place for me within their organization, but it might be two to three weeks.

Our families have been utterly fantastic. My parents flew down and helped us pack the truck and drive up north. And they paid for everything.

Michelle's family has made us feel perfectly at home. Their house is quite large enough for everyone (there are eight of us altogether). I just don't like being dependant.

My spirits are high. I breathe easier here. I had forgotten what it felt like to be able to breathe through my nose all night long. In Louisiana my allergies caused me to be stuffed up all the time. I still have allergies here, but it just makes my eyes water a bit.

We're planning to visit my parents sometime this week, and I hope to make it to New York City this weekend to visit Da- er, Arglor and Mayfly.

I haven't been happier in years. Look to my photoblog soon for some pics I took at a park today.

* P.S. Bonus points to anyone who can figure out what book series I recently began reading.