Job Search

Well I have been unemployed for a very long time now (5.5 months 4 of which I was student teaching) and I am officially frustrated with looking for work. It's weird I'm trying to find a teaching job for next year and a simple, stupid job to get me through the summer. Seems like a fairly easy task for someone with years of experience doing stupid jobs I hate, but it appears that it is not as simple as it sounds because I haven't had a single interview despite my qualifications. I have had multiple people look at my resume it seems to be in good shape and I try to kiss a little booty in my cover letters, so what else can a girl do?

There is also this messy business of trying to find a teaching job. I have had interviews here (Bellevue, Blackburn, and tomorrow Northwest High), and each interview they are painfully optimistic and you can get no reading from them one way or the other. Then there is the decision to take a job. Blackburn and Northwest are not jobs that are overly thrilling, but they are a paycheck. Bellevue seems like a great place to work and they are still interviewing (I interviewed with them more than a month ago-gotta tell you I'm not overly confident). I have also applied in TX and have not heard anything. J keeps telling me that the word around town is they don't start interviewing until July, but one school I applied at there has removed the English positions from their openings...again not getting a good vibe. The other school there said that I need to complete the application process. I found this response odd since I already had completed the process...again probably not a good omen.

So anyway here I am loving the sleeping in, but fearing the bills each month. Nebraska unemployment is pathetic. I guess that $250 a week is all I get since I've never made babies, but something tells me a few little munchkins running around and my check would be much larger - despite the fact that then I could also get additional food, health care, and who knows what other benefits. Such is the way of the US of A.

Wild Wedding Dress Weekend

My sister was in town with her new fiance for the weekend and it was at this time that we decided to go shopping for "the dress". My sister has been telling us all along she wants something casual, but pretty...we have been emailing back and forth a variety of dresses and my opinion seemed to be off to the Bridal Stores we go.

You see I have decided that wedding dresses are much like the soon to be husbands that we wear them to awe. What you have decided is important isn't really all that important after all and their is no telling what qualities and attributes mix to find the perfect dress or the perfect man. I have three great examples of that right now when it comes to wedding dresses and probably men if I sat down and talked to my friends about it. I guess none of us really know what we want until it comes into our life.

So anyway my sister got a great deal on an amazing dress with a chance stop at a little bridal store in Benson. It is as foo foo and prissy as they come - their are mountains of tool, beautiful beads, and many other embellishments that make her happy...so much for simplicity right? Oh! and the man...she seems to still love him to and he survived "the talk" with my father so he's off to a good start.