Incoherent Scribblings

Dolly was introduced to Mouse, Scooter, and Harley almost two weeks ago now. At first there was much hissing, but that has calmed significantly over the past few days.

However, I can tell that the battle lines have been drawn: Scooter and Harley don’t seem to care for Dolly much. Mouse, on the other hand, has accepted her so easily that I actually caught them sleeping within inches of each other this afternoon!

For those of you that know anything about my cats you will know this is a completely unforeseen turn of events. Though there are seldom out and out fights between them, Mouse openly dislikes Scooter and barely tolerates Harley. I still think that Mouse views Dolly as little more than common riffraff, but now she has an ally in the quest for feline dominance and it has been interesting to watch the dynamics developing amongst all four of them.

That, however, is not the only development at our home for wayward cats.

Step-dad caught Dolly’s sister Friday and brought her home too. I am not sure if he decided Dolly needed a playmate or if seeing that Dolly adopted me was looking for a kitten for himself, but one way or another, she was added to our brood and as a result, we now have Dolly and Molly.

Dolly will go with Mouse, Scooter, Harley, and me when and where ever I get a job, but I adamantly proclaimed that Molly will stay at home with Mom and Step-dad. I didn’t really need four cats… I definitely don’t need five!

Things are finally looking up on the library-job front. Over the past month I had two telephone interviews which in turn led to two on-campus interviews. The crazy part is that both of these on-campus interviews came within ten days of each other!

Last week I went out East to interview for an Information Technology/Liaison Librarian position at a private university. I loved the city, the campus, the people, and the job is perfect for me. Of the two positions, this is the one I want the most and I hope that when they contact me this coming week it is with an offer of employment.

However, while I wait to hear from the first university, I will not be sitting on my hands. In fact, this week I am headed to the Southwest for another interview. This position is for an Education Coordination Librarian at a small state university and is also quite desirable. When I talked to these folks on the phone a couple of weeks ago, we discussed information literacy at length and the library/university’s information literacy initiative would be a major focus of this position.

To be honest, information literacy is not quite enticing to me as the information technology aspect of a library, but it does rank right up there as one of my major interests. Therefore, I think this job would be attractive as well. Ultimately, I think I could excel at either position so I just hope that one of these on-campus interviews results in a job offer.

Oh yeah, did I mention that not only have I continued to work midnight to eight at the dispatch office in between all this traveling, I also flew last week with a sinus infection? A word to the wise…

Air Travel + Sinus-Induced Ear Infection = A Miserable Flight