Update about the Boise interview

I had the interview with the Boise site yesterday. I think it went pretty well, but it's always hard to say. I felt good about it after I left, but then spent the rest of the day worrying...I kept thinking of all the things I should have or could have said differently. I'm just hoping it went ok. I REALLY like the site! The people are great and the current interns are really happy there. I think I would really enjoy it there. I would be doing individual and group therapy with children, adolescents, and their families. I would also see some adults since sometimes the parents are seen for therapy if they need it. I would also do comprehensive assessments and go out to the schools for one afternoon a week to meet with kids for therapy. It sounds great!

This whole internship application process is very long.....once I have completed all my interviews (my last one is Jan 18th), I have to submit a rank order list of the sites where I interviewed. All the applicants have to submit their lists by Feb 6th. The sites have to rank all the people they interviewed and submit those too. Then a computer system figures out where everyone is placed based on the rankings submitted by applicants and the rankings submitted by the internship sites. We find out on Feb 22nd whether or not we matched. If we matched, then we find out on Feb 25th where we matched.

Anyway, I will keep everyone updated about my interviews. My next one is Jan 3rd. Wish me luck!

Interview update

I have heard from all but one of the sites I applied to....the Ole Miss e-mail was partially working by Monday (I had to access it using Mozilla Thunderbird). I found an e-mail from Oregon State--they rejected me. That left three sites I hadn't heard from. I e-mailed the remaining three today....turns out that two sites had e-mailed Friday while the OleMiss email was down and I didn't get the emails. Annoying. Anyway, I got rejected by Wasatch Mental Health in Provo, UT. I got offered an interview at the University of Utah Neuropsychiatric Institute in Salt Lake City. The interview is on-site and will be on Jan 18th. I still haven't heard from one site (it's in Portland) and I'm not really sure what is up with that. They haven't responded to my e-mail yet. So, the total now....7 interviews, 7 rejections, and 1 site that hasn't contacted me.

I had my first interview this afternoon. It was a phone interview (the site only does phone interviews). It went ok, I guess. It's so hard to tell with phone interviews since you can't see the people on the other end. It was with two of the psychologists on staff at the counseling center. They were on speaker phone. I feel like I answered some of the questions pretty well, but feel like I didn't do so hot on some of the others. It was hard because this was the first interview. Plus, I was SOOOOO anxious. I'm glad to have one under my belt now. Tomorrow is my interview with the Boise site. I really, really hope it goes well since I feel like it's the most important one. They said I would meet with the psychologists for an hour and then meet with the current interns for an hour. Wish me luck!!

Kids will sleep anywhere!

People always talk about how kids will sleep anywhere. You hear stories about kids falling asleep in strange places, in strange positions, in the middle of doing something, etc. Well, Christopher was never one of those kids. It usually takes quite a bit of convincing to get him to go to sleep. He prefers to keep playing. He has occasionally fallen asleep on the couch and quite frequently falls asleep in the car, but that's about it. Until now......

Some explanation first....Christopher has decided that he no longer wants to take naps. Unfortunately, he still really NEEDS to take a nap. When he doesn't take a nap he gets uber-cranky and becomes Destructo-Boy. He does things like take ALL the clothes out of his dresser and throw them around the room or tear down all his drawings and paintings that were hanging on his walls or climb up onto a chair and attempt to get everything off the kitchen counter. Today he emptied three shelves of the book shelves in our family room and left all the books in a giant pile on the floor. He was refusing to clean them up and at one point was trying to hide from me by going behind a chair in our family room. I knew he was back there and couldn't get him out, so I decided to get back to work preparing for my interviews. After a little bit, I realized that he was very quiet. I went to investigate. This is what I found.....


He had fallen asleep back there behind the chair! He slept like that for about an hour. Crazy kid!

E-mail can be frustrating

The Ole Miss e-mail system was supposed to be back up this morning, but it isn't yet. They said we should be able to access our e-mail accounts by this evening. So, it means I still don't know anything about the remaining 4 sites and whether I have any more interviews. Sooooo frustrating!!

Random pics of the kiddos

Here are some random pictures of the kids taken in the past week or so. Christopher didn't want me to take his picture most of the time, so there aren't as many pictures of him.

Christopher got this fireman hat when the firemen came to do a presentation at his daycare. He was so excited to see the firemen. He LOVES the hat!

Here Christopher is just playing around...

Here's a picture of Jessica that I took today. She is a very smiley baby!
She will be 5 months old on Sunday (the 16th).

Here she is just chillin' in her bouncy chair.

More smiles!

She is totally into blowing bubbles these days. You can kind of see a big bubble on her chin this picture...

Here's another picture of her just hanging out....

one more...

I got an interview at the Reno VA hospital! It's on-site and will be on Jan 16th.

So, the total now stands: 6 interviews, 5 rejections, 4 sites I haven't heard from.

I probably won't know anything else until Monday. The stupid Ole Miss e-mail system is down until Monday and the sites notify by e-mail.

more interviews!!

I got two more interviews! Valley Mental Health in Salt Lake City offered me an interview. It's on January 3rd and is an on-site interview. Then today the counseling center at University of Idaho offered me an interview. They only do phone interviews and mine is scheduled for January 7th. Yay!

So now: 5 interviews, 5 rejections, and 5 sites that I haven't heard from yet.