Good Drama/Bad Drama
As everyone who reads this knows, there's no shortage of drama in my life. I'm one of the few peeps I know that actually lives for the patches of boredom...man are they precious! But some drama at least is good...only some of it is bad. I named this post Good Drama/Bad Drama because I experienced a bit of each in that order that I feel like venting on. As for good drama, I was gonna wait until after the interview, but I'm sooooo psyched: I got my first job interview on Friday, and I REALLY want this job! It was crazy....all you peeps who know me know that I'm always praying and asking HER for guidance, and on Monday, I was discouraged because I couldn't find a job I was qualified to do in the field I wanted. The message I got back was to take every opportunity that I was given and that it would be done. So I felt better. Just that day, my coworker and friend Laura, who is our grantwriter in development asked if I knew that this one school I had already looked at was opening a new facility in Southeast this May. I was floored because I had CHECKED employment ops. on their website, and these jobs weren't listed yet. But I remembered what I had been given that morning and wrote a letter and sent my resume to the development head at SE, who was the person listed on the website.
On Wednesday two days later, I get a phone call. Normally, I don't pick up my cell at work because I don't get reception in my basement office, and I have to run up the stairs to answer it, but this little instinct told me that it was this job, so I ran up...and it was! The development head had forwarded my resume to the executive director, and I have an interview this Friday! I'm soooo psyched. The best thing is that people are usually deterred by my lack of experience, and she had my resume in front of her when she told her secretary to schedule the meeting! I know because the lady I talked to told me, and I know it wasn't a mass calling because she said to set me up to interview for a social work position, so I must qualify. I just pary that I don't screw it up at the interview.
The thing is that this is a dream job. I someday want to work privately with small children with autistic spectrum disorders, and this is a top of the line charter school, enrolling kids in DC with mental retardation and autism specifically. Not only that, but it's metro accessible, and if I get the job I qualify for metro subsidy. I get all school breaks too, and would probably make $40,000 a year. It was totally beyond expectation that I could make a decent wage to do something that I truly care about. Not only that, but the building is brand new with new equipment and designed by a famous arcitect. And I could get the direct experience I need to qualify for my clinical license in two to three years. Frankly, I'd have been happy just to get any job with special needs children, but this is like THE job I prayed for. How totally crazy.....I just really REALLY hope I don't screw up.....I'll keep ya all posted.
Okay, now I guess I have to do the Bad News/Drama part of my week. My boyfriend Daniel is going for four days to visit a married friend in Seattle, and I've known about it for months. I'll miss him, and I guess I made the mistake of saying this with only a half serious pout to my sister-in-law. Well, she told Jonny and our mutual friend Richard. Now I love Richard, and he's been my close friend for like six years, but he's always kinds sorta carried a torch for me. Which I think on some level causes him to hate Daniel. I mean, I'd feel worse for him, but he had YEARS to ask me out before Daniel and I fell in love and he never did so now he kinda just needs to deal with it. The thing is, he tHINKS he has objective concern for me, so I can't hate him for it. Well, he made this huge fuss last night and wanted to ask Daniel about the trip because he thought it was uspicious and asked me to put Daniel on the phone. Now for everyone who knows Daniel if anything his flaw is brutal honesty like mine. This sort of thing just isn't in his character at all. So he got huffy, and now hates Richard even more than before (I think he was always a bit weirded out because of how jealous Richard was) and he refuses to sit in the smae room with him because he's so offended. And I'm where I most hate to be...stuck in the middle. I told Daniel that this was hard on me because I want to stay friends with Richard, but that at least for a few months I'd be sure that they never crossed paths. Which sucks for Richard BTW cuz he mainly visits Jonny on weekends when I spend my time with Daniel. But I'll do my best to at least say hi once in a while.
I have to say that if I'm FORCED to choose, I choose my Daniel though. I mean Richard's a good friend, but I love Daniel for keeps, and I need Richard to trust me. And I told him that Daniel and I had discussed it and begged him to trust my judgement before he started demanding to talk to Daniel. So that my bf drama of the day. *sigh* What sucks is that the two of them will be forced to share a beach house in May because Jonny and Ashley are throwing a huge reunion for their wedding party in a beach house that Ashley won for a weekend in a raffle. I was a bridesmaid, and Richard was the best man....so I hope that they areat least feeling civil by then. Oh well...I can only hope. Until then, I'll just let them cool down. So those are my two dramas....one excessively dreamy and the other excessively crappy. I guess I should know better than to be shocked or complain......witches are believers in Balance! ;)
On Wednesday two days later, I get a phone call. Normally, I don't pick up my cell at work because I don't get reception in my basement office, and I have to run up the stairs to answer it, but this little instinct told me that it was this job, so I ran up...and it was! The development head had forwarded my resume to the executive director, and I have an interview this Friday! I'm soooo psyched. The best thing is that people are usually deterred by my lack of experience, and she had my resume in front of her when she told her secretary to schedule the meeting! I know because the lady I talked to told me, and I know it wasn't a mass calling because she said to set me up to interview for a social work position, so I must qualify. I just pary that I don't screw it up at the interview.
The thing is that this is a dream job. I someday want to work privately with small children with autistic spectrum disorders, and this is a top of the line charter school, enrolling kids in DC with mental retardation and autism specifically. Not only that, but it's metro accessible, and if I get the job I qualify for metro subsidy. I get all school breaks too, and would probably make $40,000 a year. It was totally beyond expectation that I could make a decent wage to do something that I truly care about. Not only that, but the building is brand new with new equipment and designed by a famous arcitect. And I could get the direct experience I need to qualify for my clinical license in two to three years. Frankly, I'd have been happy just to get any job with special needs children, but this is like THE job I prayed for. How totally crazy.....I just really REALLY hope I don't screw up.....I'll keep ya all posted.
Okay, now I guess I have to do the Bad News/Drama part of my week. My boyfriend Daniel is going for four days to visit a married friend in Seattle, and I've known about it for months. I'll miss him, and I guess I made the mistake of saying this with only a half serious pout to my sister-in-law. Well, she told Jonny and our mutual friend Richard. Now I love Richard, and he's been my close friend for like six years, but he's always kinds sorta carried a torch for me. Which I think on some level causes him to hate Daniel. I mean, I'd feel worse for him, but he had YEARS to ask me out before Daniel and I fell in love and he never did so now he kinda just needs to deal with it. The thing is, he tHINKS he has objective concern for me, so I can't hate him for it. Well, he made this huge fuss last night and wanted to ask Daniel about the trip because he thought it was uspicious and asked me to put Daniel on the phone. Now for everyone who knows Daniel if anything his flaw is brutal honesty like mine. This sort of thing just isn't in his character at all. So he got huffy, and now hates Richard even more than before (I think he was always a bit weirded out because of how jealous Richard was) and he refuses to sit in the smae room with him because he's so offended. And I'm where I most hate to be...stuck in the middle. I told Daniel that this was hard on me because I want to stay friends with Richard, but that at least for a few months I'd be sure that they never crossed paths. Which sucks for Richard BTW cuz he mainly visits Jonny on weekends when I spend my time with Daniel. But I'll do my best to at least say hi once in a while.
I have to say that if I'm FORCED to choose, I choose my Daniel though. I mean Richard's a good friend, but I love Daniel for keeps, and I need Richard to trust me. And I told him that Daniel and I had discussed it and begged him to trust my judgement before he started demanding to talk to Daniel. So that my bf drama of the day. *sigh* What sucks is that the two of them will be forced to share a beach house in May because Jonny and Ashley are throwing a huge reunion for their wedding party in a beach house that Ashley won for a weekend in a raffle. I was a bridesmaid, and Richard was the best man....so I hope that they areat least feeling civil by then. Oh well...I can only hope. Until then, I'll just let them cool down. So those are my two dramas....one excessively dreamy and the other excessively crappy. I guess I should know better than to be shocked or complain......witches are believers in Balance! ;)