Job search update

As aforementioned, Dad is in Kentucky living it up with the Murray State Geosciences department. Well, as much as he can "live it" -- he was informed by his professor tour guides that Murray is the county seat of a dry county. To the uninitiated (Claire raises her hand), this means that you cannot buy alcoholic beverages. Very recently, they passed a local bill that allowed restaurants to serve alcohol, so you can now go to Applebee's and drink a beer, but you cannot buy that same beer in bottle-form without crossing the county line. Not that that is a horrible thing, mind you, but I was under the impression that Prohibition was, like, so last century. But anyway, that is just a minor detail that boggled my mind. Dad says that otherwise Murray is exceedingly beautiful and the people are very friendly. We also looked up real estate listings on Saturday before he left, and we can buy a nice-looking 4 bedroom house for about $100K (obviously this won't be happening in Delaware). He gave his talk today for the Geo Deparment and said he blew them away, which is nice. He also said they aren't going to finish their interview process for another two weeks, so he won't know about this job for quite some time.

In the meantime, our cheating girlfriend Delaware said they would call last week to tell Dad about their decision, but then at the last minute e-mailed him and said that they had been held up by that big snowstorm that hit the East Coast of a few weeks ago. Shyure, we said. They said they would let him know for sure this week. Hose-beasts didn't call today though, nope. We have decided this whole interview process is completely for the birds. So much waiting...and emotion-tugging...and then more waiting...and occasionally painful dissing. But this is our time, gol' dern it; this time our prize pig will win us the blue ribbon. Or else I am going out there with my BB gun and bagging me some university bureaucrats.