A Legal Alien

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14 May 2007

Today is a day of self-pity.

Wait, let's back up. On Thursday, I had another interview with a panel of principals in a district I'd forgotten I applied to. I had a preliminary interview there back in March but since I hadn't heard anything, I figured they either didn't have openings or just decided to pass me over. They didn't. I had the interview and I walked out of there thinking I nailed it. Two hours later, a principal who was on the panel called me and said she knew I was going to get an offer, she just didn't know from where. She wanted to tell me about her school a bit because they are in year 6 of program improvement. So I started thinking it over and decided if she called me back, I'd accept her offer. But I heard nothing until Friday afternoon.
A principal from another school in the same district called and said he'd heard good things about me and wanted to have me come for a chat. I said sure and we planned for tomorrow. Today he called me and said the district said he had to hire an internal transferee and couldn't hire me. He said I was high on the list and someone would hire me, just not at his site. Serious bummer. I was certain I had that job.

I'm sick of looking. I'm tired of interviews, of not knowing where I'll be, of being up in the air. So I'm feeling sorry for myself. I'm PMSing, like seriously, and just about everything has set my teeth on edge today. Including TV and my slow computer.

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