Grrrrrrrrr

I am so upset right now. I was just hired for a new position on Friday, I agreed to take it and notified my school, I am home now taking off days I will lose in transitioning to the new job. Anyway, the woman I did my final interview with last week asked me, "Are you entertaining any other offers? We'd like you to start within two weeks." She then offered me the job, I accepted. Today, I'm chillin' at home 'cause it's raining something awful out and I'm not going anywhere. I get a phone call asking me to come in for a "third interview" this coming Friday. WTF!? THIRD interview? Um, I have an offer of employment, I'm supposed to come in next week to do the W2, 401K transfer, all that good crap. On top of this, I was asked to bring in my graduate school transcripts. Now, I am lisenced. In order to be lisenced, one must have proof of completing gradute school and must have a minimum of 3.2 in all classes and 3.0 cumulative. If I have this lisence then that means, guess what? I've done all of those things. I'm slightly upset because at this moment, I feel as though games are being played with me. Am I wrong to feel this way? Am I reading more into the situation than need be?

I SURPASS the requirements for this position. The criteria was a BA or BS, 2 or more years experience working with children, preferably in a school environment. Familiarity with NYS social studies standards and compatibility with children. After the initial interview I was asked to provide 3 references. Now, I have 6+ years working with children as an educator. I have not one, but TWO Masters, I've started and run my own afterschool program, I provided reports, letters from parents and the outline of my program as well as it's charted prgress throughout all three school years I ran it. I am well versed in ALL NYS standards for elementary K-6. I provided FIVE references which all checked out and were impeccable. I provided evaluations of lessons, my overal teacher evaluations, results from my student's test scores (which were all significantly higher AFTER being with me for a school year). And dare I say, I'm pretty darn charismatic as noted by both interviewers. SO, WTF gives?! I'm not sure but, I'm none too happy about this. Not in the least. So, I'll go to their crappy third interview (!). But something tells me I'm having to fill the Black requirements. :(

So......

I've been offered a new job! 10,000 more, an office and no classroom duty. YEAH!!!!!

I'm very excited and will begin my new position in about 2 weeks, such excitement!

I was up soooooo early this morning as my poor little Sam had a hard time "relieving himself". He usually "goes" about twice a day, yesterday I had Mexican food (didn't feel like cooking) and I made the AWFUL mistake of letting him have some. Why oh why did I do that? First, I though it was all good because he didn't have any awful Sam gas but early this morning he jumped off the bed and went to the laundry room where he has a puppy pad on which to do his "business" on the days he may have to go in the house. He normally doesn't "go" in the house but we all have our off days right? So, I am always prepared. Anyway, he was gone for a LOOOONG time so I called him just to make sure he was okay. Finally, I got up and went to see if things were okay and he was in the back sitting room kind of hunched over in the weird position then NOTHING prepared me for the grossest thing I have seen for a long time. Not to get very graphic but the biggest, thickest, blackest turd was just stuck you know, half way out of him. EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!! So, I stripped down because I didn't want ANY of that getting on my night clothes and hosed him down in the tub. What an ordeal. He was very appreciative as once he was clean he showered me with puppy kisses the likes of which I have never seen before. This afternoon, I will be taking him to the groomers for some serious booty hair grooming. EWWWWWW!!!!


So, last night I had another date with The Guy. He's really very sweet. Very smart. Very much a gentleman. I was kind of eh, over him before but, I think I may be able to dig him.....eventually. What I find cool about him is that we seem so far to have the same goals in life. He understands the path I'm on at this point in my life and we seem to want the same things. On another note, someone that I haven't spoken to in quite some time but who I really dug, this cat I'll call S called me the other day and we've spoken again a few times. I'm looking foward to seeing where things may progress with him.

Well I'm off to work.