I got the job!

It's surreal, almost a year later, hundreds and hundreds of application, over 300 miles of driving to 11+ interviews, I got invited to join the awesome Apple team. A complicated process, and yet fast enough to make it seem fun and exciting.
We went to buy a mouse from the apple store last month, when conrad's client kind of ended suddenly his contract, due to budgeting issues. and we were both kind of depressed. so we decided to spend $69 to bump us our morale. As we were there I thought to myself: "hey, I should apply for a job at Apple" and I went through the on-line tedious process and forgot about it. a few weeks later i got an e-mail and was invited to a recruiting seminar. It was a unique large scale interview, and i got a call just as i got home from the interview to schedule a follow up interview. And so on, step by step i got closer to the final steps of the process. And today I got a call from the manager who wants to hire me. I'll go in next week to sign the papers and will start September 9. He was so kind in his appreciative words for me, and funny and he congratulated me several times, praising me for this wonderful accomplishment. they go big on excitement and fun and team work and friendliness. I have never been so excited about a job in my life! It's amazing!