Home for a Minute

Well hello there, all! I am actually home at this very moment- an unusual occurance since my last post. Since then I have taken a trip to Baltimore, the day after memorial day, for a quickly scheduled, but as executed, marathon interview back at the home office. From 9:30AM to 5:00PM I interviewed with 7 individuals: heads of the departments and the acquisitions editors. The open position is an Acquisitions Editor spot, the position I have worked toward and coveted since my foray into publishing. They said I should know something in 2-4 weeks, and that was May 31st, so I should begin staring at the phone this Tuesday (wait, flipping the calendar. told you i haven't been home much!) the 14th.
Last week I spent a couple days in Albany for a nursing conference. Last weekend Allie was in Boston doing the pre-wedding/batchelorette/college reunion thing with Meg, Courtney, and Monica. I went to my cousin Tim Geist's baptism on Saturday, good times. Then Sunday, went to God-forsaken middle of nowhere Sussex county. I wish I had the camera (Allie had it in Boston, possible pics to follow?) but in our lost wanderings we passed a sign, scrawled in pen on a cardboard box- Goats For Sale. Yeah, that's where we wandered for hours. It was a good cause though, we hung out at a fundraiser for James' friend from Apple who was in a car accident. Good food, fresh air, good music, and a good cause.
I spent this week in New Paltz NY for a schools meeting. Yeah, I've been spending a lot of time in the middle of absolutely nowhere lately. So no cell service all week, intermittent internet access, getting rear-ended while stopped in traffic outside of Newark Airport (had to pick up a colleague on my way up), oh yeah, fun. The only good part of the trip was that the meeting was at the Mohonk Mountain House, which, though in a remote portion of the middle of nowhere, is an amazing old place.
Tomorrow we are off to Baltimore to visit with friends and bid Kelly a fond farewell as she gallops off to Texas for grad school. This weekend trip is Grandma's health permitting, she went into the hospital earlier this week with some chest pains and tests should be coming back today. It's also Nancy's health permitting, she just came out of surgery for her intestines. Everything went well there, nothing unexpected, so we'll be monitoring that as well.
Next week we are scheduled to head out to Seattle for a 5-day vacay touring that harbor town of the great northwest. Wonderful fun awaits there thanks to Catherine (yay Catherine!).
Cheers to all. Good thoughts, prayers, and smiles.