So, I was told today that the company wants to move forward with hiring me as a Business Analyst. I still need to finish out my however many hours as a temp that Office Team requires for conversion-to-permanent-witout-penalty, my manager thought that'll happen June 5th, and then HR can start running the background check and apparently there's some kind of blood work involved (I assume it's a drug test and not, like, magic, but we shall see) and that all usually takes a week or so, and then I will be a permanent employee! For the first time in my life, salaried even, I believe.
And then I will almost immediately go on vacation, but I told her the dates (and I am taking the whole week) and she said it's fine although there's a good chance it will be unpaid time off, which is what I was expecting.
And somewhere in there I will find out about compensation and benefits because, yeah, I never asked about any of that.
This has been a really weird six months, employment-wise.