Found out I was a topic at lunch on Tuesday with a number of faculty at GMU, now they are seeing if there is money to hire me as a lecturer for the Spring semester. Boss at NRL is proud of this development and says that I can continue my part-time at NRL (but less time like one day a week or once ever two weeks, to keep up my TEM skills). If I do get hired. It is not a tenure position, but they think that one will be opening in the next year that I can apply for if I wish to stay local to DC/VA.

I am also putting my teaching package together to apply for a position at CSU Sonoma (northeast of SF). Because last weekend was the longest since I had been back to CA, I realized how much I missed my mom. Also, with P and I talking children in a couple of years (of course after marriage), I would like to be close to mom.

I don't know. I learned a long time ago to live for the moment and not plan too far into the future. So I am living for the moment and though some of my students hate me and one as even written me a realy nasty email, it is good to know the the University has faith in me.

Now back to answering emails from confused students. Someday (even just an evening) I would like a little time to myself. But Loreena McKennitt is a week from tonight, guess I will get my night then.

Oh, on another note. Over the weekend when I was in CA, my boss submitted my paper. 1.5 yrs in the writing, too many reformats to count, we finally gave up, and just submitted the damn thing. Now I can work on the Science paper. bouncy, bouncy. Once I am finished helping my students that is. ARGH......