Setbacks...and the beginning of a new semester.

Well, we've had a bit of a change in the staff here. The Multimedia Supervisor left for another job, and I applied to take her place.

I didn't get it.

On the other hand, even I think the guy who got it is a better fit for the job than I would've been. He really knows his stuff when it comes to the music side of things. I wish him luck with it.

The other set back was the grad course I was planning on taking. The prof decided my writing sample wasn't up to par, in spite of the fact that she couldn't find anything wrong with it. I'm working off the theory that she checked out my story of being the first on the list of alternates, and she had to cover her ass for having let in two other people instead of me.

So, since I still wanted to take a writing course, I'm in the "Intro to Fiction Writing' course. It's taught by my old undergrad advisor, who was very surprised to hear that I wasn't allowed into the 900-level course. She also made a point to point me out the rest of the class and warn them that I've been doing this for a while, and not to let that intimidate them. So far, after only two classes, I'm thinking I may be a semi-TA for the course, as I've already exposed one girl to the theory of close reading and critiqueing. She had no idea how to do it, or what to look for.

It's like being back in 5th grade. Oh well.

As for the rest of the semester beginning. We just had to hire 20 new students for the library. 20 out of the 350 applications we'd gotten before we stopped taking them, and the 15-20 students who've asked at the loan desk about applying.