Still looking
My job prospects are looking up. I had a couple interviews in the last week and will have a couple this week. A couple look interesting but I can only assume nothing will pan out and the search must continue. I have to say that this is a long and tedious process.

My family recently got a new dog. It's a sheltie from a group that takes in dogs which had been abused or unwanted. In this case she had been fairly badly abused and is incredibly nervous. She also has the unfortunate tendency to crap all over the floor which doesn't make her real popular in my family. It doesn't help that she refuses to come within ten feet of any person. I think this is going to be a long process.

In family news my sister-in-law Mariella passed her language exam at the Agency for International Development and will soon be able to join her family in Israel. My brother and their kids are already there and got massive sticker shock the first time they went to a store ($300 for a few items). Also, not surprisingly. the Palestinean branch of the state department is not exactly well funded and has refused to furnish their house with things like bookshelves and chairs. As an AID employee she is eligible to send 7,000 some pounds of stuff. Putting these pieces of info together Mariella is on a massive campaign to fill the complete shipment up with food and furniture. So far three rooms in the house are filled wall to wall filled with food and she has 3 weeks to go. Every Sat and Sun she goes shopping all day and returns with a van completely filled. I think the hope is that all 8 of them will live for the next 2 years on mac and cheese. Personally I hope to avoid the hospitalization that would result from the inevitable avalanche of canned foods.