Today I Am Made Of BAIL

I just got home from bailing on the crappy job I don't want, and I shan't be returning to it.
Why?
Because I finally got the job that I want!
Yay!
I will start on January 7, and will be making about $3K more per year than I did at AOL, without having to pull all of the overtime that was required for me to make as much money as I did (or to sell stock options, the profits of which are treated as regular income, thus bumping up my gross earnings another $2,000 or so beyond what I actually earned, meaning that I'll actually be making about $5K more at the new job).
Of course, the Universe is fond of giving with one hand while taking away with another - though it usually prefers to take away with multiple hands (way more then the number I laid claim to in my Watchmen movie post) - so there is one major drawback.
Because I've accepted a job from a company that is a branch on the same corporate tree as AOL - and did so within a specific timeframe - I'm forefeiting my AOL severance pay.
It sucks, as that would have been a nice chunk of extra money (two months' base pay), but I don't need it to get by, and as my mom pointed out, if I'd never gotten laid off I wouldn't have been getting or expecting it in the first place, so technically I'm not losing money.
So oh well.
In any case, I'm grateful to finally have an answer after waiting for so long and to have been able to bail on the job that I didn't want.
(When I told the manager there, he said, "That's a shame. A damn shame." Being magnanimous in all things, I resisted the urge to say, "For you, maybe.")