Man, it seems like this week has been really long. Between the craziness of having an internship interview every day this week and Nanny Rebecca being sick and Ramy and I needing to shuffle childcare duties, I'm so ready for the weekend. Unfortunately for me, I have another interview tomorrow, but then the weekend can begin.
Yesterday, I stayed at home with Rebecca until Ramy came home early at 3:00 p.m. so that I could leave for my interview in Long Beach. It was an interesting site, with a lot of good training opportunities. Unfortunately, it's in Long Beach. And although it should only be about a 45 minute commute with no traffic, it would be a nasty drive with a lot of traffic when I'd be going to work. Anything that requires me to take the 60 to the 57 to the 91 to the 710 to the 405 has a lot of opportunities for traffic nightmares. But it was a good interview, and I could definitely be happy doing an internship there (other than the drive), especially since it seems to be a really flexible kind of place. The ambitious side of me that wants the most amazing training opportunity is in constant conflict with the lazy side of me that wants to rank order my sites in terms of commute from my house. After I left there last night, I ventured away from where I was to find some fast food for dinner, and I got a little bit lost in the city of Long Beach. Yikes! Ultimately I found my way to a freeway with which I was familiar, so it was fine.
This morning, I interviewed at City of Hope. One of the first things I learned was that the great training director they'd had for about 20 years had had an aneurysm, and they weren't sure if she would ever be back to work but were thinking probably not. So it had totally changed the focus of the internship to a pediatric cancer site almost exclusively. Although I could swing it for a year and I'd rather do that than to be hanging around for another year, it is probably at the bottom of my list. But hey, that's fine. So far, all of the sites have seemed way better in person than I'd thought when reading about them on paper, so one turning out to be disappointing is still pretty good.
Then I met Ramy at his mom's house so that we could trade cars and I could get Rebecca from him so that he could go back to work. Now we're home and she's watching Dora the Explorer and her eyes are verrrrryyyy heavy. If I don't stimulate her, she'll fall asleep (yay!). Tomorrow, I'm interviewing at DBH. I'm excited to learn more about the STAR program. I'm so glad to only have two interviews next week!
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