Week 39

My friend was here this week who has been thinking about coming to work with my girls. She is going to take the job!!! She will start April 1st. She is seriously going to be amaaaaazing. She already was really good with the girls. She and I are similar in a lot of ways and the girls know I love and respect her a lot so she already has good rapport with them.

Last week I was home for my job interview at the Biola Counseling Center. I got a ride down to Southern CA with some former co-workers who had come up to visit. I got to have coffee with a lot of friends so that was REALLY, REALLLLLY nice. I miss them. A LOT. I got a ride back to Redding on Amtrak with my friend/coworker/boss, Sarah. She is applying to a job at Biola tooooo! WOO! (The job she is applying for wouldn't start till July 23.)

The interview at Biola went really well. The first part was a clerical, numerical and verbal test and the first part of that was kind of difficult because I was really nervous. THen I had an interview with a lady from Human Resources. She was REALLY nice but I didn't know how to read her so it made me nervous. After that interview, I went over to the Counseling Center and was only supposed to interview with the Office Manager whose name is Jenny. She was really nice and I liked talking with her. That interview lasted about half an hour. She then said that the Administrative Assistant, Kelly, also wanted to meet me. So Kelly came and interviewed me for another half hour. After that, they asked me to wait in the interview room. I waited a few minutes and they came back and asked if I could come back that afternoon and meet with the director of the Counseling Center. I OBVIOUSLY said I could! So I met with him an hour later. That also went really well but I was nervous because he asked/said really insightful things and so I opened up a little more than I was expecting to. He's a psychologist. I should have seen that coming.

I have not heard anything back from Biola yet. Gabi, who worked in the Counseling Center and actually had the job I am applying for, said that she heard they really like me so that is good. But, again, I haven't heard anything about the job yet. I have been pretty anxious about it intermittently because I do really want this job. I would love it. I don't think it will SAVE me to get the job (i.e. I don't think I will have a problem free life and all my pain will be healed), but I know I would love the actual work and I would be good at it....annnnd it's at Biola. Having to wait to know about the job IS good because I have to remind myself constantly that God has got it, He loves me and I ABSOLUTELY can trust Him.

If I get the job, my last day at JYA will be March 7 so that I can go to a friend's wedding and go see Megan and Kelsey before I start work at the Counseling Center on the 19th. I already put in my two weeks notice at JYA--but if I DON'T get the Biola job, I will stay here. If I do leave next week though, I will have been here 40 weeks which I find to be quite significant... Jesus fasted 40 days in the wilderness; Israel was wandering in the wilderness; Pregnancy is 40 weeks... it is just very interesting.

We'll see what God says.