Chi town raised me crazy

I know I may not be a native but I most definitely miss Chicago. Like really I am missing my city. I need some city in my life. Like whoa.

That is all.

Oh. And I miss you

St. Elmo's Fire

So I had phone interview with the Washington Reading Corps in Seattle last night. Its an AmeriCorps program and parts of it sounded really great. They work through an awesome non-profit called Solid Ground and one of their missions is to battle institutionalized racism and other isms which sounds like it would be really challenging intellectually and would be an awesome experience. However there phone interview was a little strange. I am supposed to call back on Tuesday with a decision about whether or not that the program and I have a "love connection". Kinda weird I know right? They also asked some pretty off the wall questions like: Why do you think people are poor? Which totally caught me off guard. And they also wanted to know why i thought it was important to me to help low income minorities (they didn't word it quite like that but that was the question they were asking). They also gave this little scenario at the beginning of the interview that they wanted my input on. It was during the portion of the interview wherein they were giving me the rundown of the program. The scenario was: A student that has had little interest in reading has begun to make great strides. He has been asked to read some poetry for his class and his parents will be in attendance as well. He has asked you to attend and he really wants you to be there. What would you say to this young man? Well apparently my answer was supposed to be 'NO' because on Fridays there is important team building and training that I cannot miss unless i am in the ER bleeding from my head. Which for those of us that have worked with kids know is not the correct answer. You need to be there for that student. These people are too confused, obviously! So I don't think we have a "love connection".

But some good news (and this time its not for people who love bad news either!!!). While I was typing this e-mail I missed a call from the campaign director for Debbie Halvorsons' campaign wanting to schedule a second interview! So thats exciting. Because that is a job that I actually really do want!