Job Updates and Other Random Babbling

Apparently, I was not a complete dork in my phone interview with Alaska. They contacted me yesterday for permission to check references, the next step in the process. I've made it through several weeding out points - the application stage and the phone interview stage If I make it through the reference checking stage, I could be invited to come to Anchorage for a series of interviews. Yikes! Since my references all know about the job, it's still out of my hands at this point. All I can do is wait. They'd like to have someone in Alaska for interviews the week after Thanksgiving, though, so it doesn't sound like I'll have to wait too long for some sort of an answer. I'm holding to my original thought, which is that every stage I get to is another learning experience that will help me in the future. The other jobs I've applied for will be closing at various points during this month; until then, there's nothing I can do about them, either.

Meanwhile, we've got assignments due in cataloging every week from this week through the end of the semester. Our final project is both a cumulation of the assignments we've been working on, and the addition of new material. The first kids' lit seminar assignment is due Friday - an annotated bibliography of war stories for teen girls. If anyone's interested in reading war stories teen girls might like, let me know. I've found some interesting ones, including a novel based on the life of a woman who fought in the Civil War while dressed as a boy. We still have a paper, and then leading a two hour group discussion due in that class. Enough to keep me busy.

As promised, here's a picture of the mailing we finished at work - all 1533 ballot packets packed in boxes before going down to the mailroom.

So, while we were very glad to see them go, the guy in the mailroom was (understandably) not so happy. I think we owe him cookies, or maybe tequila...

Ah, to add to my insanity, I've also signed up for National Novel Writing Month, for the third year in a row. I have yet to actually finish, but one of these years.... who knows? It could be this one.