Tuesday - Beautiful Snow and the Unexpected Interview

I was just about to begin laundry early this morning

when I got the phone call...

Just yesterday

I had submitted an application to a job at a bookstore

in town.

Suddenly this very very intense manager was on the phone

liking my resume

wanting to meet me in just over an hours time

and that training would be tomorrow,

could I make it?

Well.

Floored I went to the interview.

I had no time to mentally prepare;

got dressed professionally, makeup, grabbed my resume

and walked through beautiful white snow to the bus.

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The job was only to be temporary to help with the

beginning of a semester bookstore rush.

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I made it just on time to the interview,

after making sure a student who fell on the road

was okay...

(poor girl was not wearing boots and

it is exam time

so she did not have time to get them yet

I found out)

(today was the first day of real snow here)

...walked with her to the school

(her stretch pants ripped, by the way she got up slowly

I could tell she hurt her knee)

and went to the interview

(the student I walked with directing me to the bookstore).

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The interview went okay but I realized after

that I should of given more examples

when asked the questions.

So I feel a bit down about that part.

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The worst though is that it is after 5 pm now

and no phone call to tell me if I got

one of the positions or not.

And by the time I called (4:50)

their switchboard was closed.

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So I guess I did not get the job

but really don't know yet.

It would of paid my rent for a month

and would of been so nice to have work.

It would be fun work!

Sigh.

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Will let you all know if I ever do hear back!

Meanwhile,

I just love how the window frosts up!

And I love winter!!

I don't think I will ever get tired of this view...

it is so beautiful with the snow!

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I feel overwhelmed,

I realized anew today,

because I feel so destabilised due to living in a state

since August

of not knowing if I am leaving Ottawa for a job else where or not.

This is really emotionally draining.

It is bad enough to face leaving a city one loves

one's spiritual father, church and friends here

but to not know for months on end if one is really leaving

is no easy thing.

NOT that I am trying to complain.

Really!

And to show you that I am still committed to being thankful

and see the glorious beauty around me,

another beloved snow picture!

Isn't the white snow so lovey?!

I thank God for this!

I thank God that I at least had a good resume to be noticed

quickly, even if I don't get the job.

I thank God that I can do better next time

and that I have people I can practice interviewing with.

(Not that I have not interviewed well before,

but the situation today was such that I did not really have any

warning to prepare!)

I thank God that He is taking care of me

and that He is providing for me!

I thank God that He sent His Son on Christmas to save us!

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I thank God that somehow He is working through all of this...