here today

 

the interview part 2

we arrived one by one, smiling and shaking hands asking all the right questions.  sizing up the competition, letting the professor's wife take the lead and the crazy guy from Berkely hug the interviewer and make the rest of us look good.

we arrived one by one and were interviewed together first then singly. 

We were interviewed together which means that crazy guy talked a lot using his hands to let us know how blessed he felt to be there and the shy 4th grade teacher was a secret poet and I spoke last after carefully constructing paragraphs in my head and the interviewer nodded at all of us careful not to betray her biases her thoughts her leanings.  We didn't know if there were six spots open or one or none at all so we preened and prattled and verbally jostled each of us wanting this for our own reasons.

Alone with the interviewer she asked me how I will handle the commute, the flights, creating my own deadlines softball questions with only one answer and we smiled at each other I made her laugh and I knew I was in.

Alone with myself on the drive back to VivaBush! my family watching Everybody Loves Raymond and it's the last show of the season so nobody wants to talk to me about something so real as graduate school when there is television and the Last Show of the Season and so alone with myself I'm not so sure about any of it.

On May 31st letters will be mailed or maybe I will get a phone call ? depends on the mood of the Admissions Committee.  Meanwhile I'm thinking about the smell of honeysuckle, chili verde, a library filled with beautiful old books. 

Meanwhile I wait.

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