So, I got word today: they chose someone else for the job in Kentucky. Oh, they still have to make the offer, it could be turned down, the door isn’t closed, blah blah blah. Yes it is conceivably possible that they might come back to me. Is it anything I’ll predicate any decisions on? I think not.

So, couple that with the fact that the two job possibilities locally are moving so slowly that they have ceased to be a factor, we’re left with Plan B. I still need to get final word on a date, but sometime within the next week or two I’ll be up in Chicago interviewing with Abbott Labs for a contract position as Validation Auditor. That would only run through the end of the year, but it gets some money coming in and gives me some time to get my feet under me (and kills that question I always hear: What have you been doing since you lost your job in October of 2002?).

Should I get that job, things are going to get interesting: it would mean setting up two households, at least temporarily until takaza can transfer up to the Chicago area. I’m still exploring housing possibilities, both short and long term – right now I just don’t have enough information or certainty to go very far with that, though. We’re going to wind up having to make some big decisions fairly quickly, but we’ve done it in the past, and we can do it again.