I are (hopefully) a college professor

I'm sitting in the living room of my apartment sporting one of my favorite workout shirts. It's a custom-made that I got from my parents as a graduation gift that pokes fun at my incredibly good-spirited mother. It reads "I ARE A COLLEGE GRADUATE." Perhaps in a month or so it should say "I are a college professor." 

Here's the deal: I got a call from the University of Phoenix's Axia College today, and they are moving me forward in the process toward becoming an adjunct professor! I have already gone through a resume review, an online interview and a phone interview; now I get to start online training. Axia College, for those of you who don't know, is the junior college of the University of Phoenix. Its courses are taught almost entirely online. Assuming I make the training cut, I will spend nine weeks as an adjunct professor of a prerequisite communications class. I will have two classes to begin with; and I will, in a nutshell, teach the proper mechanics of written communication, with a business bend. I will have a mentor who will help me during my first nine weeks of teaching. If that person feels I am suitable, he or she will recommend me for full adjunct status, and I will be able to take over up to four classes at a time!

Starting tomorrow, I need to get the college a copy of my master's transcripts and start working on my faculty profile. I have four weeks to prove to them why they should or should not make me a member of their staff. I'm betting on should. 

This is an opportunity I've been waiting for, for a long time. Interesting that it took a move across half of the country and six weeks with nothing else to do to make me realize it. 

I feel in my soul that this is the start of something new. Please send your prayers, your love, your positive energies and your candle smoke this way, and I'll keep everyone informed of how it goes.