Conflict

There are several devils on my shoulder this morning.
Angel? Angel? are you there?
Yes, the angel is there too...fortunately...but oh MAN....

A lady from Rantoul City Schools called me this morning and left me a voicemail asking me if I wanted to interview there. She sounded really nice.... YES, yes I DO want to interview there. Rantoul is so close to Champaign.... And I already know Rantoul, having spent two days a week there my entire first year of grad school... and I like it. But, you know, there is the small matter of the other job that I already have....for which I haven't signed anything.

Everybody I have talked to at UMS this morning thinks I'm nuts for not wanting to at least interview at Rantoul. "What can it hurt? People do it all the time. Schools expect it; that's why they hired you so early...they know they would have plenty of time to find someone else... You haven't signed anything yet..." Maybe all of that is true, I don't know. It just all seems incredibly sketchy, and, well, wrong. Pretty sure that falls into the "let your yea be yea and your nay be nay" category. Dignity is the name of the game, right?

Oh, how I would love to work in Rantoul.... but who knows what is waiting for me at VASE? Yes, who knows.....