Job Interviews and Rumi

My new books to read endeavor has already left me the wiser. Examining the list, I noticed the author of "Mathnawi" was the Rumi that someone had quoted to me once. I researched him and read some of his love poems. Beautiful stuff. Here is a quote I randomly came across and loved:

"Don't be one of those merchants who won't risk the ocean."

Life today is full of challenges, but my commencement speaker said three days ago, at my graduation, that for the confident, hard times are present as challenged to make things better. I feel as if going to graduate school is this kind of confidant leap; after all, I certainly feel like I am setting sail to a treacherous ocean, bound for shores I can't even see yet, millions of miles away. I am confident, and can be courageous, and I want to make things in this world better. So here I go. It doesn't feel real yet, actually, with Rutgers being quite a distance away geographically. I'm sure it will feel real enough when the course enrollment e-mails really start rolling in around June/July, when they told me to expect them.

For the summer, however...I need money, and money to save. Thanks be to God for these two interviews on Thursday; I actually hope that I get them both. I also am lined up to House Manage if I can assure them by next Wednesday that I have time in my schedule, and I also have some interest from a Children's theatre company in town to be a Stage Manager...we'll see about both of them. If I get BOTH of these jobs on Thursday, which I am actually hoping for, then I won't need anything sporadic like that. Maybe I'll get neither and I'll be scrambling and glad for two little temp jobs in the theatre.

I am working a *little* right now, helping Susan Kattwinkel, my former theatre professor, edit and put together a text book. This book will be geared towards First Year Students in our First Year Experience program, an area I worked in as a Peer Facilitator for three years. I'm getting paid for about 40 hrs total for a time span of about a month. It's not a bad paycheck, and it will probably cover my utilities for the summer (maybe, depending on the heat) and that's not bad, but I need something to cover rent and then some.

I never thought in my wildest dreams that I would be this concerned about money and jobs. I was probably delusional. I also never thought that I would be completely and totally excited about moving to New Jersey! Can't wait until August!