This has been a crazy week. Actually, May has been a crazy month thus far. I'm happy, yesterday it finally stopped raining here and the sun came out. We had crazy warm weather back in March (80s - unheard of for NJ that time of year!) and it seems that May decided to make up for it. Happily, it is getting warmer and I am hopeful that the allergens will finally start to die down so I can feel like a human being again.
Last week I was down for the count with a sinus infection. It hit me fast and hard. I used to get somewhere in the neighborhood of eight to ten sinus infections a year, but over the past few years I have had good control over my allergies. Immunotherapy seems to be the key for me, despite the fact that after a year of consistently doing it, I still tested positive for all of my known allergens. I'm trying not to let that discourage me, as the timing of my re-testing was bad for morale. Right smack in the middle of the worst allergy season in decades, of course I am not going to be feeling great. I still need to keep getting the treatment. Okay, self pep talk over. Going to keep doing it. Moving on.
This week I had a couple of crazy days at work and then went on a job interview. I realized beforehand that I haven't been on a live, in-person interview in about five years. This led to some wardrobe panic the night before, when I realized that not one of the dozen suits in my closet still fits me. I've gotten so used to business casual that I haven't donned a suit in years. Not since before my daughter was born. Yikes.
Not having time (and not really wanting to spend money, to be honest) to go buy a new suit, I improvised. I have a nice business-y dress from Banana Republic that fits me perfectly and I threw one of the suit jackets over it, unbuttoned. I was happy with it in the end, it looked enough like a suit to be appropriate for an interview.
The interview itself went really well, I thought. I was very comfortable with all three of the interviewers and the more I think about this job, the more I want it! It would be a big change for me - it would take me from full time to part time, and it is in a totally different area than I currently work in, though at the same company. It would be a great fit for me though. It's an opportunity to get into a group that is tough to break into without direct experience, but is a logical fit for me with my legal background. It would also enable me to face a new challenge without disrupting my daughter's world - she would get to stay right where she is for daycare and get to spend more time with Mommy. Lots of positives!
I'm a little down today because I heard through the grapevine that there is a strong candidate for the job who is not me. I am hoping that I blew the doors off the interview and that I at least make the decision hard for the hiring manager. Fingers crossed! But I am also going to try to start talking myself down, because I really got my hopes up, and I don't want to be devastated if I don't get an offer.
I'm definitely going for a run today...I haven't run in almost two weeks! I hate being sick. I was going to try to run through my illness, but with what it was, I just couldn't do it. I decided it was better to rest and get healthy rather than risk getting further run down and either getting hurt or having the sinus infection progress to bronchitis or pneumonia, as has happened to me in the past. I was feeling nervous about getting back on the horse, because I was doing so well with training before I got sick. But the news I heard today about the job opportunity is providing me with more than enough motivation...I have frustration to burn off!
Wish me luck!
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