Boring Job Stuff

I realized my life is pretty boring when I called home on Thursday for the first time in almost two weeks, and Mom and I really had nothing to talk about. Gracie is feeling better and is carrying around a picture of me holding her when she was real little, and she doesn't like me holding that baby so she covers it up. Very cute! I'm going home again next week so I'll get to see her soon. I'll bring her a picture of me and Tyler.

I just got done going door to door upstairs trying to catch a smoker. I got a call from one of my RC kids who lives in the building complaining of smoke. i went up there and it reeked in the hallway. I called the RA on duty as a secondary sniffer, and we went into each apartment. I think we found the culprit, but we couldn't prove it. It's always so tricky to try to find smokers. But I did get some anonymous tips which my staff and I will be following up on. Yes, I got a master's degree in education so I could conduct investigations. And fix toilets. I do love my job, but I am really really ready to move on up. I'm doing an extremely limited search this year, but I'm not planning on leaving. I have one semester after this one until I'm vested in my retirement plan, and these days you can't give that stuff up lightly. But if something works out, I'm ready to get out. I really need to figure out why I can't get a job. I get lots of interviews, so I know that both my resume/cover letter and my telephone interview skills are fine. What is it about interviewing in person that turns employers off of me? So if nothing else, maybe I'll get some interviews in and I can try to get them to tell me what it is I need to improve on.

One of the students I work with let me borrow the book "Best Friends: The true story of the world's most beloved animal sanctuary" a few weeks ago. I read it in a week. I would have gotten it done a lot sooner if I didn't have to sleep and work and stuff. This place is the same place from the TV show "Dogtown" on the National Geographic Channel. I watch it occasionally, but now I'm really more into it. I went on their website and saw a job that I would absolutely love--Intern and Groups Supervisor or something like that. Basically it's supervising their college interns and coordinating groups that come through to tour and stuff. Plus it's in the mountains in Utah. So I applied. I'll be very surprised if I hear from them, but I had to try :)

So that's kind of where I am right now. I want to stay because I love my building and my residents and the students I work with. I think I found a church to go to, but that's another post. I like my doctor. The pay is decent, the benefits are great. But I just need to move up. I've been a hall director almost too long. I'm getting too comfortable with it, and frankly, I didn't go through all that college stuff just to fix toilets and hunt down people smoking in their rooms.