Madness! So I just got offered a post-doc today up at Washington State! It is a great situation, working with a great guy on interesting stuff. Kind of interesting really not knowing where you will be living in 9 months. I am really blessed to have received these kinds of offers. I mean I have worked my tail off, but I really didn't think it would come to pass so soon. I am so fired up about it. I will be interesting to see how the Westmont process will go. I hopefully will nail my interview and get the offer, but you never know. I think just being invited for an interview means they think I am good enough- it is more of a matter of fit at this point. Landing that job would be so nice for many reasons- one in particular being my family. It kills me to have to continually move my family around the country, but I guess we'll do whatever it takes. Crazy time in my life, having some high pressured interviews that will have lifetime implications. Yeah! This is what it is all about...

So I am sure that most of you know this by now, but I got an interview at WESTMONT! Exciting news for sure! I am still trying to nail down a date, but likely sometime mid-Jan to mid-Feb. Lots to do to prepare for it, I will be teaching a lecture in Physiology as well as giving a presentation on my research. I am not sure how many they are interviewing, but it typically is only three. So I just have to outcompete two others and I will be living back in Southern California. Obviously, mine and Rachel's families are excited. So pray for me to rock the interview.

For christmas news, we took Lucas' photo with Santa. So awesome. We are down with the family this week enjoying our time off.

So once again it has been awhile. I am sure that all my loyal blog readers have left me because I have been so inactive. Oh well. Such is life. Nothing too excited to update. I am nearly finished with applications so that is good. Now I am moving on to the post-doc apps. Fun Fun. Never ends. At least Monday is my last day teaching so I will be able to add an entire day back into my schedule. That will be amazing to have an entire day that I can devote to work. I cannot wait. How sick does that sound? hehe.
Lucas had his first major fall today. His face right into the corner of the table. He smacked it hard. We were actually going to get his photo taken, but decided to wait a bit so his face would be pretty. It actually doesn't look that bad, I think it actually may have hurt me more than it hurt him...
Lastly, I am learning computer programming. It is kind of fun. Right now I am writing programs with no purpose- typing in a page of code to get a DOS prompt to say "Hello World". Hopefully I will progress quickly. I am learning C because it seems to be the standard for ecologists. I was looking around though and realized that Access and my stats program use Basic to add functionality. I looked into that and found that you could download a free version with an entire set of instructional videos. I have been going through that instead of watching TV. I decided that I am going to put my "down time" to use. I can watch a programming video with actually more enjoyment than another predictable episode of the OC. Okay, that is enough blogging for now. Hopefully I can get back into the habit of blogging again. I'll see if I can rebuild by fan base. Hehe.