Well, these past two weeks have been the most positive since I was laid off in February in terms of prospects for a new job. I have interviewed for two different positions and gotten positive feedback from both. I had a third(!) interview about one of the positions today and had secretly hoped that an offer might be made. Instead, I was told that, due to some participation by people other than the person with whom I was interviewing, there are now some additional candidates for that position who will need to be interviewed so that no decision can be made for at least two weeks. In addition I just got the word yesterday that they chose someone else for the other position I had interviewed for. Thus, no new job can be announced or assumed yet.

One issue that these developments have helped us to settle is that now it appears certain that I will be driving up to Wooster to pick up my daughter from school. If I had gotten a new job then MM would have driven up there rather than have me ask for time off right after I started. With no job on the immediate horizon there is no reason for MM to take time off from work to make the trip. This has the added advantage of allowing me to remove the back seats from the minivan so that we have more room for loading Jessica's stuff for the trip home. MM felt a bit uncomfortable about driving all the way to Ohio alone so her mother was planning to ride with her. This would make a nicer trip overall, but it would mean that the middle seat would have to be kept in the minivan and thus there would be less cargo area. In any event, it now appears that I will be driving up.

Well, back to full job-search mode! Pray for me.