RA Interviewing

We are getting ready to start interviewing RA candidates next week. For those of you reading this who know anything about the Res Life system, typically staff selection takes place in the spring. Not so at Michigan. Applications were due Wednesday (410 applications were accepted for roughly 170 spots), screening interviews begin on Monday and then "In Building" interviews will begin the third week in December extending on through the first two weeks in January. Selection takes place on MLK Day and those cadidates who are sucessful are notified and they then register for staff class (Psych 405) for the Winter semester (what most places call the Spring semester).
Each Associate Hall Director and Hall Director had to sign up for 20 screening interviews (which is not a big deal after having to do about 30 at UNM). Unfortunately, because of the way the campus is designed - there is a Central Campus (where I am at and where EVERYONE and their mother wants to live), Hill Area, and North Campus (which is about 2 miles from the main campus)- all the HD/AHDs (there are only 9 of us) on Central Campus got all of their time slots filled. The Hill and North Campus HD/AHDs got as few as 3 and as many as 15. It gets better...
The trick to screening interviews is, that if I am interviewing someone, I can't score their application (they score the essays and recommendation letters)-either Adam or Stacey have to. So, I have to get the applicant's file, give it to Adam, have him read the application and the 5 (yes, five) essays the applicant wrote and he then has to score them on a scale of 1 - 5. Adam is giving me his files and Stacey is giving hers to him. It's ring-around the applicant files!
Once the screening interviews are done we, as a Building Team (Stacey, Adam, and I) have to decide who we want to interview for South Quad staff. Ick.
Adam didn't know he was going to a conference on Monday and Tuesday and told the selection committee that he was free all day, both days. So he got ten interviews scheduled for two days that he won't even be here! Fortunately, Stacey was able to pick up two and I was able to take six. He only has to get two more covered. This should be interesting...
Needless to say, Monday is going to kind of suck for me. I have six interviews and then a staff meeting that night. Tuesday will be better though. I only have five interviews and there aren't any major meetings that day.
Is it Thanksgiving yet??