Delightful!

I had a lovely Saturday! Nicer than I have had in a very long time. Saturday afternoon I hung out with my best friend and we finally went to see The Chronicles of Narnia. It was great! It didn't look at all like the story looked in my head when I read the book, but it was still great. Saturday evening I went to a friend's house to play games with some friends from school. And that was great too! I had not sat down and played games for an evening in literally 3 or 4 years. I forgot how much fun that can be. And to top it all off, I didn't work at all. I didn't think about working or worry about the fact that I wasn't working. I don't know how I managed it for 24+ hours, but I did. That's probably why the whole day was so great.

I submitted an application yesterday for the postdoc position that I want the most. It's outside of the country (yay!) and I have very little shot at actually winning this fellowship (boo!), but I worked very hard on the proposal and I think it it quite good even if no one on the selection committee ends up thinking it is. It will 3 months before I hear any response so now, as usual, it's just a waiting game. I'm trying to be optimistic, but I know I'll be pretty bummed if things don't work out. But I take comfort in the fact that even if I don't find a job at the end of all this, Starbucks is always hiring.

I'll be moving to the midwest in about two and a half weeks I guess. Hopefully by the end of the week I'll have all of the apartment stuff taken care of (the property managers won't let me sign a lease yet!) and that will be the last big thing to finish. Not counting packing, of course. But I've decided to keep my apartment here while I'm gone since it will cost nearly the same thing to break my lease and store my stuff as it would to just keep paying rent for 3 months. So I don't have to pack all that much. And that's a relief. The only think I hate more than unpacking is packing itself.