Caveat Lector

April may indeed turn out cruel. In addition to all the stuff I simply have to do, if offers are going to come, that’s when they’ll do it. If I don’t blow interviews, I may have a lot of thinking and hair-tearing to do.

For the record:

• Ruritania: could make offer as early as tomorrow; likelier to be next week or the week after, if it happens at all
• Rohan: campus interview tomorrow
• Oz: phone interview Monday
• Avalon: collecting reference letters

Would you believe I’m still collecting places to send résumés? I don’t want to count unhatched chickens.

I get the impression that Rohan has quite a few more candidates than Ruritania did, and one or two of them may be internal. I’m not counting myself out, but I’m not exactly counting myself in, either. We shall see.

A number of people, in varying ways, have told me “Well, they’d be crazy not to hire you.” While I appreciate the support, I wish it wouldn’t take quite this form. I know what I’m competing against (in general terms, anyway). If there’s a field in this world with better people in it than librarianship, I don’t want any part of it, because I’d be left in the dust.

I’m making no assumptions. Some mighty big ponds out there, and I’m not that big a fish.