Rothesay Castle

I'm applying for my first professional librarian position today, months before I intended. I won't have my MLS until December, but I'm otherwise very qualified for this position with some relevant traits that are rare in librarians (like an engineering bachelor's degree in Computer Science). Either my application will never get out of HR or I'll be a top candidate.

Rick and I are both all ready showing signs of stress--and I only heard about this job on Friday! This is going to be a tough year for two intuitives. Give us a set of potential circumstances and we can imagine a half dozen scenarios from the sublime to the tragic and everything in between. It's very exhausting to live six imaginary lives along with the real one. I don't even want to think what it will be like when I have a dozen applications out to as many universities in as many cities.

I really related to Meredith earlier this month in her attempt to balance the fantasy of a potential future with the possibility of that dream failing to materialize. I thought, "That will be me in a few months." It's only been a few weeks and it's all ready me!

The best coping mechanism I've come up with so far (if you don't count chocolate) is to cultivate an attitude of trust. I want to trust that Rick and I will make good decisions and that the things we can't control will work out just fine, too. I can be a fatalist when it suits me.

Dorothea has given a fictitious name to her current job prospect. I think I'll steal that idea. For reasons that are probably best left unexamined (although yesterday's confession of romantic notions might be enough of an explanation), I think I will name my job prospects after British Castles. So, today I'm applying for the job of instruction librarian at Rothesay Castle.     #

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