Interviews

So today I have my first interview for an M.S. assistantship. Yesterday I got a call at 9 am (I was up and doing stuff at 5 am) while I was going on the exercise bike from a woman telling me that they have now received funding and would like to do an interview. So that interview is at 1 pm today. I was so excited about it that I hope I have the right position in mind, because I'd hate to start gushing about the wrong thing, ie "OMG I just love snails!!!" "WTF you're going to be researching elk/wolf interactions, what do snails have to do with it?". Not that I would gush like that, but ya'know.
I'm a little worried about it because it's not exactly in my field- I want to do fish and this is to do with birds. But since I was a general bio major it's not out of my field either. I just don't feel like I'll have the best chance when I don't have a huge background in birds outside of the classes I had that dealt with them, my personal interest/knowledge/reading/etc, and the time I've spent taking care of the 1 million types that I've had. Basically where I feel I am lacking is doing point count surveys of birds, though I don't think that would be hard to learn to do. But why wouldn't they hire an applicant that already does? I can still hope though.

I also have another interview scheduled for tomorrow, this is for a summer research position in Delaware focusing on horseshoe crabs. This one is more in my field. Like the assistantship interview, I got asked about it yesterday and I have one day to prepare for it, though that isn't so bad.

I'm also waiting on results from an interview I did last Wednesday for a salamander technician job somewhere in the south... I apply to so many places it's hard to remember exact locations for all of them. :P

Interview?

Well, I was supposed to start this M.S. assistantship interview 20 minutes ago... But I haven't gotten a call. I've done a few interviews now, and they've always been right on time and they've called me. Could it be that I'm supposed to call? I don't want to seem pushy, so I haven't yet. It could be that they forgot or are on the phone with someone else and that call is running long? I got her number from when she called me to schedule it out of my phone's memory, should I call? It could also be that she has the time zone wrong- that's happened before, but the person called an hour early. I suppose this could be her calling me an hour late...

Aaaah! As much as these things stress me out, I don't want to be hanging about waiting. I will be uber-disappointed if they don't ever call. :(