june is a big month!

thanks, Pat and Daniel! we're looking forward to the new places to explore. so many things to see! after a lot of time and thought in my to-date career formation, i consider the payoff to be the privilege to have this career opportunity.

 

thanks Wayne! you're always welcome at our home.

we're here and working on the settling in part. the awesome thing about this gig is that they value me enough to pay my relocation costs. (not insignificant, and otherwise would have been nearly intolerable, given it's our second cross-country move within a 12-month period!)

i start work tomorrow. well, paperwork stuff. the science stuff starts in a couple of weeks- there's always a little startup delay on that.

 

it'll be falling into place for us *both* once DH lands a good job here. he's got a handful of applications in, more as the jobs are posted, and some networking leads so we're hoping for something soon. there are definitely more opportunities for him here. but i kinda needed a good break in my own career, if i might be so selfish as to suggest

they seem to let me come to work and do stuff, so i have no objections yet on this clearance thing. (but if someone else would do the months of administrative approval paperwork for me to do some experiments, that would be awesome.) thanks for the stuff to do suggestions, we're just settled in now and starting to think about what to do on the weekends! i've been thinking hiking trails now that the weather is nice.

hah, that seems to be the common path. too many years in school, then more scraping by, until the right thing comes along. so far so good on this one, so hopefully no more job swapping for a while! there is a lot to explore here, we're looking forward to it.

 

i've been asked for an update and i didn't want to derail the other thread. (hey Bob!)

things are going well! we're settled on the maryland side of DC, enjoying the area, working pretty hard to get established. i have a lot more responsibility than i've had before, which is good because it's a challenge, but also exhausting. always a new learning curve. DH thinks his job is just awesome, and they treat him very well. he doesn't work 70 hour weeks for flat rate pay anymore- a nice change.

i'm finding that sallie mae is not my friend, not at all. [shakes fist]

prius has 93k miles on it now- has taken us through countless road trips, 2 cross-country and several in-town moves, been registered in 3 states (this one requiring by far the most annoying process). his es250 is chugging along for the time being, but we're thinking about getting him an early model hi-hy within the next year. he's wanted one of those forever.

in short, we're getting on our feet. slowly. trying to enjoy the ups of this new life, when we're not working.

and with housing prices around here, we'll be renting for the next freaking decade O_O wow!