Aug. 18th, 2008

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I passed the foreign service exam i passed the foreign service exam i passed the foreign service exam!!! :-D :-D :-D

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Aug. 18th, 2008 07:32 pm
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I PASSED THE FOREIGN SERVICE EXAM!!! =D =D =D


   Now they're going to look at my qualifications and get back to me in mid-November, and if they still like me then they'll call me in for an oral interview ... and then they'll spend several months doing a background check.. BUT if all goes well..

   But if all goes well, I'm on track to become a (Junior) Foreign Service Officer in the Political division, meaning I'd sit in a US embassy somewhere and write reports on the local political situation.

   One step closer to Tblisi. (=


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   A number of you asked what passing the Foreign Service Exam meant. Since you all asked the same question I figured I'd answer it once in an entry rather than make the same comment response over and over again.

   Having passed the Foreign Service Officer Test (FSOT), my application proceeds to the "Qualifications Evaluation Panel" (QEP) where they'll put it in a pile and look at it in mid-November and decide if I'm awesome or not. If they decide I seem suitably kickass they will then call me in for a Oral Assessment. And then... they'll probably spend months doign a background check.
   So there's certainly a lot of steps still to go, but the FSOT weeds out like 98% of the applicants and I haven't gotten past it before, so I am quite pleased.

   All this is for a position as a Foreign Service Officer (FSO), ie someone who works in a US embassy abroad. Specifically I've applied to the Political Division (as opposed to things like Economics, Public Diplomacy, Consular, or Management), so I'd be analyzing local politics where posted and reporting on it and such.
   My dream is to be in Tblisi right now (=


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I'm amassing a collection of beach photos

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"I'm Russia and this portion of his spanakopita is South Ossetia!" - Dad

[Dad makes the TV display in split screen so there's among other things, Condoleeza Rice talking about the Georgia situation (with audio), and, in the upper left, Olympic boxing]
"Look in the upper-left they are panto-miming what Condoleeza is saying!" - Me

"So cars keep passing me on the onramp, you know, where the lanes are coming together so you're supposed to be getting into one lane, not passing people? And its really pissing me off so I start zigzagging between the lanes to prevent cars from sneaking past me. This one jackass does though. But then this cop car comes past ... and immediately pulls that other car over!! And I'm like, that cop isn't gonna pull ME over, man, he probably thinks I'm fucking BATMAN!" - Jeremy at work.

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