RBOC - Hot days

• It is hot here
• I scored 3 medium, reinforced boxes suitable for moving
• Offspring is getting excited about the idea of moving
• I am at the office today, cleaning out and doing a little bit of grad school stuff. Clearly, I am insane.

I need closure!

I did not go to the office today, although I am still using my PrettyGood-issued laptop.

There is all of this uncertainty around us, mostly caused by the faculty in Spouse's department being very upset over the prospect of losing him. They are pushing my chair to try to finagle some kind of hybrid, non-tenured, but better than a lecturer position for me. My chair is apparently not cooperating, since I have only heard from him once. I get the feeling that a lot of people are talking behind my back, but no one is talking to me.

It really doesn't matter. Except that we haven't found Spouse a job yet. He got rejected by a job in industry in Snowville, which is discouraging. It's the first one he applied for, so it shouldn't be an indicator one way or another, but it is still a little bit of a blow.

I need to call daycares and get Bun on more waiting lists.

So right now, we are waiting and kind of limited in the amount of control we have over our immediate future. I don't even know what we are doing two weeks from now. Weird.

Have and have not

So I have been looking into my soon to be new home.

It has:
Aldi
Decent bagels


It lacks:
Sonic
Chipotle

Graduation Day

Today was my last official event at PrettyGood as I served as a marshal for graduation. I saw some of my kids graduate, including two of my favorite grad students. The one who was my GA for a year and half asked me to stay after and meet her family, which I did. Unfortunately, I started crying in front of them.

Not my coolest moment.

Decisions

We are now trying to decide who comes with me to Snowville. Spouse doesn't have a job there, yet. There are many colleges nearby, plus industry that hires PhD-level researchers in his field, so we are optimistic, but it is kind of late to be looking for a job for August.

So there is a chance that Spouse will stay here with one or more of the girls until he gets a job. Daycare appears to be as tight there as it is here in Mid-Sized City (although better quality. Mid-sized City has 1 NAEYC-accredited center, Snowville has 23), so if we can't get Bun into a good situation there, she will stay. I'm not sure about Offspring. I hate to make her leave her friends if she doesn't have to.

But we figured it out and even with the cost of maintaining two households and with monthly visits, we would come out way ahead if Spouse stays here and works, vs. comes with me and doesn't.

Hopefully, Spouse will get a job, and it will all be moot...

But the good news is

I accepted the job at Snowbelt this afternoon, not two hours after the appeal was denied. My kids will get to live within driving distance of their grandparents, things look positive for Spouse.

And the verdict is....

a big negative.

Boy, I feel stupid, now.

HappyJoy...

So at this point I am assuming no news is good news. Or at least not bad news.

Very interesting things are happening here, but I can't elaborate.

Happy? Joy?

Um, I should finish my grading today. That's happy.

Bun said button this morning. She is really interesting in talking and books all of a sudden. That's happy.

I actually got a good night's sleep last night. That's pretty happy.

I said no, again, to wait for the tenure reconsiderations, which should be finally made today, although I don't know when they will tell us. Is that happy?