Job Fair, heh...

I went to the countywide Teacher Job Fair on April 18. Guess how many phone calls for interviews I have gotten from that? Go on, guess. Zero. Even from the one school that told me I'd get an interview!

I maintain my opinion that every administrator in this county knows every other administrator AND that they have a super-secret lunch where they take all resumes received and discuss each one. As in, "Do you know this candidate?" "Would you hire him/her?" etc., etc. The super-secret get-together is probably not true, but I bet there are phone calls to everyone on the resume before an interview is offered, which means, in my case, that no interview is offered.

I am not discouraged. Okay, a little bit. I still want a library certification because a job working in a room filled with books sounds like heaven to me and shouldn't a job be like that? Heaven, I mean.

How to finance the going back to school and the paying of the student loans? I'm considering that now. I'm not sure I could do those seven classes, plus the required internship, plus the stress and planning associated with teaching secondary full-time. All the classes are online. That means no hurrying to campus or anything. I figure I can apply for a graduate assistantship when I apply for the program. They're awfully stingy with the graduate assistantships these days though. I doubt I could count on it.

Alternatively, the state is hiring for DHS. It's basically data entry and interviewing people. There's a test required to get the job with basic grammar questions and common sense situations. I'm fairly certain I could pass that. What do you think?

Places I Would Like to Live...Someday

We probably will never live all of these places because we would have to move a lot and I hate moving. I've been thinking a lot about other places I would rather be than Middle Tennessee. Here's a sampling:


Chattanooga, Tennessee. I've been here many times and I love the feel of it and it's not Middle Tennessee.


Evansville, Indiana. I just love this town, plus it is close to New Harmony, which my family has gone to every summer for years.


Brevard, NC. Just the other side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.


Colorado Springs, Colorado. Just at the foot of Pike's Peak, it's beautiful.


Portland, Oregon. I've re-watched Rachael Ray's "$40 a Day" set in Portland many times and it makes me want to go there. But then, so many places I'd like to live are because of Food Network.


Seattle, Washington. Again, seen it on Food Network and HGTV and I think it looks like a great city!

Amazing how the Internet can touch you

i just discovered a blog yesterday that is beautifully done. It has amazing pictures, but what most catches your eye is the current post detailing the plane crash that the author (Nie Nie) and her husband were involved in on Saturday. They have small children and there are pictures of them on her blog. It's called The Nie Nie Dialogues and it's just so touching.

Her sister has updates posted on her blog, which is called c jane enjoy it. Reading those updates will make you tear up. She also has posted ways that the family can be helped as they are facing skin grafts and rehab from the extensive burns sustained in the crash.

You can read about the family at either site. They are the Nielsons and I hope that they end up okay after all of this. Please go read about them and think happy thoughts for them.