Toilet Tuesday

Today was my third day at Branbury. My morning was spent moving picnic tables, raking leaves, mowing with a push mower and weed whacking what I forgot to do the other day. I got yelled at by the volunteer for making a mess from mowing. Note to self: don't mow at Branbury anymore.

Right around lunchtime, it started to rain, so I got to clean bathrooms- ALL OF THEM. There were 3 of us, so it went rather quick, and of course I felt like the third wheel (the new guy... odd man out... insert your own cliche here ->). The good news (I guess) was that I could leave a half hour early because after rearranging the cleaning supplies and the boat house, there wasn't much else we/I could do because of the rain.

Tomorrow, Middlebury College is having a picnic at the park, so we'll be staying away doing things in other parts of the park. We have a few campsites to rearrange fire rings and picnic tables in and cut and split a 93 foot pine tree that fell in a campsite that we need to move before we open on Friday. I'm sure there's other stuff other than that, but I'll be kept busy for sure (which is always good). I'd rather be busy than wandering around trying to figure out what I should be doing.

Today- wait, let me back up. Yesterday I got a call from Hardwick to call the principal back about my interview. Dreading it, I didn't want to call her back and wondered why she didn't just say on the answering machine that I didn't get it. (what a positive attitude I have, eh?) I don't have cell signal at work, so I called her back when I got home (after drinking an iced coffee- yum- hit the spot). She called me back about 15 minutes later and indeed, told me I didn't get the position. She was very nice about it all- probably the nicest person I've interviewed with- telling me I did a good job and that I have a lot of experience but they basically found someone with more experience that didn't have to train much but could just walk into the position. Then she said, "Aren't you discouraged? Have you or are you thinking of going into another field?" I told her, yes, I have seriously thought of it and still might. But I told her that deep down I still feel like this is what I should be doing, so I don't give up. Then she told me not to give up and that the school district may have openings this summer and if she doesn't fill her librarian job, she'll be giving me a call. She's such a nice woman to have taken the time to talk to me like that and not just "thanks anyways". I still cried after I got off the phone, but she was nice to me.

Tomorrow's a new day. Not sure what it has in store for me, but I need to get some sleep to be ready for what the day brings. A new day of pursuing patience.