flea

I took yesterday off work and was in bed, mostly actually sleeping, until 3pm. Yes, I am honestly sick. I am at work today, though sneezing and coughing my fool head off.

I am feeling very behind at work and in life. Luckily I am working this coming Sunday, so I have 8 hours of sitting at a desk with nothing to do to get caught up, right? Must plan: Thanksgiving, Christmas, Girl Scouts, and write 10,000 blog posts for work.

In bad news news, mr. flea is really not going to get a permanent job at his current workplace. His contract ends next august, and he did not get an interview for the job that has been posted, and the other job that may get posted is also not a good fit for his skills and background. So far he has applied for a permanent job in Dublin and is working on an application for another post-doc at Georgia Tech, which would mean evil commuting, but would let us keep the kids in their current school and so forth. Our goal is no more post-docs unless they mean we don't have to move; permanent jobs okay if they mean moving. But damn, moving with kids is so disruptive to them. Never mind the whole home ownership problem. Worst-case scenario is unemployment as of next September; next-to-worst case scenario would be mr. flea in a post-doc someplace far away and me living here with the kids. That would suck. Let's not have that, please, okay?

In good news I bought both kids flame Vans via Zappos and they came yesterday and Dillo is so in love with his it's darling. He outgrew his flame chucks, and Casper's skully vans-style sneakers were literally falling apart. And I paid for them out of ebay sales, so I win at frugality.

The plan is to leave from work tomorrow, drive down, hoping the kids sleep for the tail end of it, get a hotel room, get up in the morning and do the inspection at 9am, my interview at 1:30pm, and drive back to NC when that is done.

Thank god the kids are fairly patient in the car. On the last drive, only the last hour of so was touch-and-go, and this time the kids may be asleep for that part.

1. We can haz house! They accepted our counter to their counter. Next step: inspection!

2. I applied for a job at the UGA libraries yesterday; today they called and emailed me wanting to interview me. That's nice! Now we just have to work out how this will happen; they'd prefer in-person, but there's the whole lack of transporter. But we do have to go down for the house inspection. But I was hoping just mr. flea could go, because of the whole 340-mile drive part. So maybe phone interview?