I feel much better now that my future seems slightly less shaky. 🙂 I can go camping with confidence and give the good news to my in-laws also. It’s interesting that Matt and Paul were certain that I would get the job. According to the prospective employers, they’d narrowed the field to a guy and yours truly. They do cool things like knowing more about proteins’ structure & function using tools like NMR and biophysical characterization of said proteins. Essentially, a structural biology lab. Well, I’m excited and looking forward to this process. NMR has always been a gray area for me so while I’m nervous at confronting this feared topic, I’m excited because I can only benefit from having hands-on experience with it. Now, I’m sure the bulk of my work will be grunt work for others but I do hope that I’ll have a pet project that’ll get my name onto papers. 🙂 I’ll be spending a few days getting familiar with the organization’s benefits (which are neat, btw) and reading up about the laboratory’s research focus. Alright, Matt & I are off to have a little private celebration of ours so remain sane out there in this crazy world! I forgot. I’ve gone picture-crazy with the new Fujifilm camera that Paul gifted us with. Here’s a lovely picture of Bonnie, the resident sheltie dog in her glorious self, a flower that Matt got me and one of the cats whose name is Snookie (Snookums, Snookeroo, etc). I’ll be documenting my picture-craze on my gallery so bookmark it! I’m so looking forward to getting away and going camping in a group. I haven’t packed my stuff up yet, but I’ll get to it while Matt’s at work. I need to protect my camera because I can’t afford to have any precious bits broken. 😀 Enjoy the photos! Oh, I touched them up a wee bit in Photoshop.