Terminal honesty

So I completed the job application for a job I really wanted, and I am suffering from the fact that I am *terminally* honest. I have some experiences that are relevant to questions they asked on the (very intense) application, but they are not *exactly* what they asked for. Ie, have I worked with "Diverse Communities" or "providing service to diverse communities"...ummm, no. I know what they're asking for here, and it's something along the lines of La Escuelita at Carleton (I was volunteering at the local middle school, where some of the students were Latina/Latino, but it wasn't really relevant to the context they're asking for as La Escuelita would have been). I've worked *with* a really diverse community in the sense of actually working at a job where most folks weren't white, but I wasn't like, working with them in the sense of helping them out or anything - we all just baked bread. *sigh* so there are all these questions in the application where I gritted my teeth and just answered: Have I? "No." All my friends are mad at me because they feel if I really want the job I should be like, "Well, no, but........" and then squooge in the experience I do have. But it doesn't feel right to me. It feels disingenuous.

So there's it at. perhaps my failure to do this will mean I end up working retail instead of having my dream library job. *sigh* Today's day is filled with angsty PMS.