Waiting.

When a potential employer states after the interview that they will be calling either on Friday or Monday to let you know the outcome, one would expect to hear back by the following Tuesday at the latest.  It is now Thursday, nearly a week after the fact, and still haven't heard anything.  I'm tempted to email the lady I've been in contact with, but I think I'll wait it out and give them until Monday to respond to me.  I can't handle another rejection this week.

I feel like so much of my life right now revolves around waiting.  Waiting for jobs to be posted, waiting to hear back, waiting for subbing to start up again, waiting for a dog...

There seems to have been a little bit of progress made on the whole "K wants a dog, but L says not right now" bit.  A couple weeks ago, I was at work and L was home alone all day.  When I got back, L mentioned how he wished we had a dog because it can get lonely in the house (as much as we love Dwight, Darla, Spinelli, and the Degus, they aren't the most social bunch and we can't exactly play rough or take them on walks).  So, of course I jump on this and proceed to send him pictures of puppies from petfinder.com, but he caught on to my evil plan right away and wasn't going to give in.

Fast forward to this past week: The family I currently nanny for was out of town and needed a dogsitter for their Golden Retriever, so I agreed to watch Chloe.  Now, if you've seen Pixar's movie UP, you might remember a dopey and lovable dog named Dug.  Chloe=Dug.  If the animated dog popped out of the screen, what you would have in front of you would be Chloe.  We had Chloe spend father's day with L's family and then she spent the night at our place.  L fell in love with her.  He wouldn't let me keep her at our house for the last two night because "She made [him] too happy."  Last night, I was browsing through petfinder (L calls it my "puppy porn" because I look at pictures of puppies nearly as often as men look at nudie pics) and came across this adorable face:

She is a Newfie/Lab mix and when I showed this photo to L, I didn't get the usual, "Oh great" response.  This time I got an "Oh great, how much does this one cost?" instead!  Which leads me to believe that he is slowly coming around to the idea of us getting a dog sooner than later (though I'm probably wrong and misinterpreted his response).


EDIT: Apparently I posted this only a couple of hours too early... I got a rejection email regarding the job I was hoping to get only hours after posting :-(  K=Failure at getting a job.