We're Not Done Crossing Our Fingers... Yet!

I think that went well.

I arrived appropriately 15 minutes early to re-fill out a formal application. That felt kinda odd, but nice seeing all of my accomplishments crammed in impossibly small handwriting in impossibly small tables. Honestly, how does anyone really think anyone with real handwriting can fit information in that space?!

Then I met Betsy, the Head Librarian. She showed me the desk and went through the basics of the job: filing letters and reader applications, scheduling cleaning of meeting rooms and housing, assigning housing to readers who need it, answering any questions readers have, and basically staying tied to the desk because during business hours it can never not be manned. (This means finding a librarian to watch the desk should you need to pee or get lunch.)

The formal interview itself went well. Betsy and the Reading-Room librarians could not stop harping on the negatives. They focused a lot on HOW fussy Readers or potential Readers could be. I told them that after STC opening a new space that NOBODY likes and having to listen to those complaints for 6 months; no one, no matter how fussy, could scare me. This earned a laugh. POINT!

The only place I slipped up is I'm not sure I answered the "goal" question well. I told them that I am an actress, and that I work in theatres often that require my nights and weekends, but as far as I can remember I have NEVER taken off of work for these projects, and if for ANY REASON I've needed to I've always said so way in advance. I'm good like that. The other part was that for some reason I said, "but I'm not throwing myself at that full force. I want to meet as many people as I can before deciding on what I'm doing. I also really want a day job that leans toward the academic side of Shakespeare,"

And there's where I may have made my flaw... Barbara told me afterward that the librarians get touchy when people generalize the subject matter in the library as JUST Shakespeare. As it's also Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Victorian history, as well as anything to do with those eras. Le sigh. I love it anyway!

Then I got a walk-through of the stacks, which was amazing. Mwah mwah mwah I love the Folger. Every inch of it.

Now I wait two weeks for the final word. Sooo keep the fingers crossed for two more weeks. K? Thanks.