Well, there’s a 99% chance that I got a job!! I still have to meet with the director of the program to make it official, but the interviewer said that i was the best-qualified candidate for that position that she’d met so far.
I’ve been unemployed (withOUT benefits) for a year now, so this is amazing. The new job matches my old job almost exactly, with the exception being I would not have to run training classes. That’s good, given that I’m currently mute.
That does mean I won’t get to do as much camping as I was looking forward to, but maybe i can still arrange to camp out on the weekends. I’ll just move the tomatoes and cucumbers to the back yard instead of planting them on the land :)
The person with the variety of corn and garbanzo beans that I want still hasn’t updated her list for this year, but I did find another catalog that’s selling a good parching/flour corn, so if it gets to be much longer I may just order that one. The variety I want is called “Magic Manna”, and the substitute I found is “Mandan Red”.
(Any corn can be parched, but only a few of them actually taste good that way. Some taste downright nasty!)
And, last time I checked, I was still the only bidder on that freeze-dryer the local university is selling. If no one else bids, I’ll get it for $20! I’m already planning out my aerogel experiments :)
Good news on the job front. I’ll be praying for you.