Long Weekend!!

I am so excited that it's a long weekend. The past few weeks have been intense with things gearing up at work for a busy summer and with my allergies skyrocketing out of control. It's been good to know I can get three solid nights sleep!

We're headed to a MLB game today, our anniversary (9 years) is Tuesday so I bought the tickets for my DH as a gift. It's been a rainy morning so we're crossing our fingers that it will clear up for the game this afternoon. Then we're headed to a BBQ tonight.

Tomorrow I think we'll be hanging out at home as I am actually leaving on a work trip tomorrow night. It's a bummer that it cuts into my long weekend but my meetings start early Tuesday morning so I had to fly tomorrow night in order to be there on time.

I'm looking forward to the work trip. The location is a cool place that I haven't visited before, I'll get to learn a lot and the company springs for a king room all for me. I don't know how much time I'll have to blog or to read blogs so I may not be around much for the next week. I'll be back Friday PM.

Thank God for Baseball

I twisted my ankle today making for a pretty nasty sprain. I'm home while friends and family are out at a bar Birthday party that I was really looking forward to (but not much dancing with a bum ankle). However, baseball is on.... and somehow in my mind that makes it all okay.

Paranoia?

After receiving bad customer service so many times I'm paranoid when things seem to go too smoothly.

I had to revise our rental car reservation for our trip to Spring Training because we're flying into a different airport and arriving earlier than the original reservation. I called the local number I received from the baseball teams destinations package group, they asked my name, when I'd be arriving and to what airport, told me it would be $X more and that I was all set...

It was probably less than 1 minute on the phone!

I am a little worried we'll get there and not have a rental car. I guess it's not a huge deal, like they'd be out of rental cars and if our reservation wasn't there I could just call this number again. We should get all our reservation materials in the mail a couple weeks before the trip so I'll just check it then, but isn't it weird how rather than relieved the ease makes me more worried??

Baseball brings people together

During my orientation for ANJ yesterday, I was brought into the kitchen to get some coffee before I met with my team, and there was baseball paraphernalia for my favorite team all over the place. If you've been reading my blog for any amount of time now, you know that baseball is near and dear to my heart. I really think ANJ is the right home for me. :)

Plus, I'm getting my own office!! I've never had my own office.

Baseball cures all things

Got surprise tickets for tonight's game. Sat in row CC (that's 3 rows from the field) in right field. My team won and I drank too much beer. Plus the company was great, lots of laughs. It was THE perfect ending to a hell of a week! :)

RBOC: because I'm too tired to give it to you in real posts

• Job Interview #1 was actually fun (foreshadowing another bullet here!) . We were on the phone for about 45 minutes and I was so glad they called because the job is so much better than I thought. They're a non-profit research organization and the research I'd be doing for them would be right up my alley, salary & benefits rock, they're way more flexible about what I'd be doing than I ever imagined and it would be an even closer commute than my current job!

• Heard from people at job interview #1 today with additional materials, email ended with "looking forward to speaking with you next week", I think it's a good sign.
  
• Now for Job Interview #2, that's right, I have another interview, this time for a university affiliated research position. This request came through yesterday afternoon. It's a research organization established at another University out of state that is starting up a new branch here in my state so I'll be doing a phone interview with the director on the 20th and they'll do face to face interviews on July 7th for their short list.
  
• Mentor told me today that the 2 grants that I am a named post-doc on will be reviewed next week! June is a busy month for me. My worst fear is with all this job buzz right now I'll end up with nothing. Ugh, pessimism sucks! anyway... on to better things.
  
• Baseball- way overindulged in my 2 games in 2 nights. I don't know how season ticket holders do it. It was fun though, my team won both games! Can't wait to go again.
  
• Have a mini-conference this weekend (it's local) but I am exhausted so I went to the keynote tonight, I'm bailing on tomorrow and I'll go to all the talks on Sunday and see my friends present then too.
• Next week I am jam packed with participants M, T, W and leave for my sister's weekend in Florida on Thursday so blogging may be light but I'll try and keep up as best I can.

Ok, I'm going to have some pizza and hit my bed soon.

Thanks for all of your well wishes everyone! It's so nice to know there's people out there reading my blog and wishing me well.

Baseball

I love baseball, went to a MLB game tonight and have tickets for tomorrow too. I know it's keeping me away from blogging but my love for baseball runs deep.

I will say I think the job interview went well. The job rocks and I'm pretty sure I'll take it if offered. Won't know until next week. I'll tell you more about the interview and my thoughts later (when I've had less ballpark beer).

:)