Just one more day until the weekend. Ach.

Tuesday was, uh, interesting. I had checked the TRD website for their “interview tips” and all such information. Some of it was helpful. Some of it was really, really stupid.

For instance, I took offense to the advice that women should wear “black, charcoal gray, navy or pinstripe” suits. (Mine was a tan-khaki linen suit. Perfectly appropriate for April, right?) Uh, whatever. But then when I saw what people were wearing, I understood.

Women were wearing floral skirts with jackets, mismatched pieces. One girl I saw was wearing black pants with white pinstripes (tight black pants with a low waist. These were not suit pants…) with a black/white pinstripe jacket that DIDN’T MATCH. Also, she had on a tiny little black top under the jacket, and there was about an inch of skin showing between the tiny black top and her tight black pants. Huh? How could anyone think this was appropriate for an interview situation? One woman was wearing black pants with a bright pink blazer. I saw girls in suits that were too big for them, too small for them, things that were clearly off the rack at Fashion Bug and *way* too informal for interviewing. I may have been wearing khaki, but at least I looked professional. (Oh, except that according to the website, my heels were too high.)

Sigh.

My actual interviews went well, I think. I felt very positive about the suburban district interview and the Catholic school interview (MMA, Patti). But this is just the beginning of the process. Even if they liked me, it could take a couple of months to get called back for a *real* district interview.

So I wait. And I keep sending. Please, please, please think positive thoughts for me. I really need to have a job lined up for next year!

I’ve been drowning in a sea of grading this week. I did get all the papers graded for my evening classes (which both went well this week. Yay.) as well as all of the book reports for 7th and 8th grades. I promised the 6th graders their reports by the end of the week.

I had one of my community college students express shock that I took points off of his essay because it wasn’t in MLA format. Uh, it’s in the objectives of my syllabus. This is something the college considers really important. I’ve been very explicit about these expectations. So you’re surprised that you’re actually graded on this? Sigh…his heading was wrong, the paper was single spaced, had no title, didn’t indent the first paragraph. This is basic stuff. Oh, and he didn’t follow the instructions for the paper either. He’s a nice guy, but man…following directions is a good skill to have.

I know that Hilary tagged me on a meme, which I do intend to get to one of these days…

This weekend, I have traffic court. Bleh. Don’t worry, I’m taking notes. But Saturday night, Rand’s friend Greg Klyma is playing at Nietzsche’s…I haven’t had the opportunity to see him play live (other than that one time in Rand’s living room), so I’m looking forward to that.

And on that note, I should be doing some grading…