This morning this Murphy's Law on teaching came to mind:

If you are given an open-book exam, you will forget your book.
Corollary: If you are given a take home exam, you will forget where you live.
Corollary: If the test is online, you will forget your password.

I have no idea how this is relevant to today. I got for my umpteenth internship interview in a few hours. I'm trying not to let the ghosts of previous interviews and experiences accompany me. I am trying to find a shred of hope and encouragement still remaining in my body.

Let me see what the positives are regarding this particular agency. I know that many LIOS students have interned with various branches of the agency within the region, so I am hoping that the director is not flabberghasted by the enormous amount of internship hours I must log. I hope he is familiar with my program's requirements that I can video tape my client sessions. That I need 150 hours of direct, multi-body client contact. That I must be able to practice from a systems counseling perspective. And that on Wednesdays after 6pm I am allowed one royal fizzbin.

The negatives are that I am about to start my period. It is raining a thick, goopey type of rain. Maybe I am the one that fills thick and goopey because of my bloating and sensation of total body stickiness? I feel excessively ready for a nap and it is only 8:20 am. I am like Jacob Marley carrying with me the chains of all previous interviews, and do they ever weigh a lot! I hope I can devest of them along the freeway as I drive the hour to Tacoma.

Oh, and what else is on my mind? Well, when I went to apply for my supplemental student loan, turns out that my credit score dropped because of the recent charges I applied to my card. Those charges were the first I made since the holidays and they were made to book my hotel rooms for the make-up modules. Since my credit score dropped the loan was denied. I love the irony of it.

The obvious solution is to pay down my cards and hope to the highest of heavens my credit score will boost back up so that I can re-apply for the loan. I still have time. Only I hope it isn't like how they are quick to deduct money from your account but are so slow to issue a refund. It was literally a matter of days and my score dropped!

So the plans for a set of golf clubs for Pooky and a DVD-R for me will become true Christmas presents, and every spare dollar we can part with will go to VISA.

Thus, not only does school hinge upon me getting an internship, has a second hinge of being able to get that supplemental loan. The tuition at my school isn't covered by the governmental loan, and there are the expenses of the internship that I must cover (fuel, clothing, etc). I do hope that a third hinge doesn't manifest. At least not today—not when I am about to start my period.