Sink Into My Body While I'm Drifting

The interview actually went well! The job sounds really interesting, possibly the kind of job I could make into a career...though it does seem challenging. A lot of hard work but that is what it is like to be an adult, yes? Of course, now I have to wait 2 weeks while they interview more people and I sit on the edge of my seat worried about whether or not I got it.

I just set my expectations too high about 900% of the time. I am pretty easily excited, so I get an idea or project in mind and go nuts with it, and lots of times it can't happen. Exhibit 1: Utah trip. Exhibit 2: Grad School. And, of course, Exhibit 3: This job. I like to think that I am passionate about things and my enthusiasm transfers over well, but when things don't turn out my way, I am, of course, disappointed. I'm trying to keep my excitement at bay regarding this job, which is why I will still apply to other jobs and keep chugging along on my grad school application plans.

I am probably going to take today off from that, but since I just have to work on a summary of my writing sample (and figure out whether I can just send in my thesis everywhere), it shouldn't take too long, probably a day or two. Plus, I am waaaaay ahead of schedule since I didn't expect to get to the writing samples for another week and a half or 2. But just in case I don't get the job, I still have something going on in my life. And if I get the job, then I can figure things out from there. I guess it's all about having a series of plans and backup plans and extra backup plans and solutions to the backup plans. And then some more backup plans.

I'm almost like a spy. Except virtually nothing like one.


*Post title from Justin Nozuka's "I'm in Peace" (I LOVE him! And Kevin Bacon is his uncle, for serious!)