... life is hardly ever dull.  I'm still in the middle of everything, in transition, but WOW is life interesting.  One thing that inspires me to say this is that the job that Amber has her heart set on (out-of-state) is giving her an in-person interview today.  Regardless of what happens, the timing of it all is impeccable.  She 'just-so-happens' to not work 'til the afternoon on Wednesdays, the pastor 'just-so-happens' to be in town today, DC 'just-so-happens' to have a good public transportation system- and probably a million other things working together to make this happen.  She just got the call this morning about this interview (she's already had one over the phone).  I'm so excited for her!!

Other exciting news is that an awesome couple in CA are pregnant!!  We were in a Bible study together, and they are wonderful, giving, fun people and I'm very happy for them.  This is an unexpected thing, and they're in their 40s, so please keep them in your prayers.

One concern that I'd had earlier this week was about housing- our current place was listed as 'available' in Amber's church 'shopper ad.'  I played phone tag with our landlords, and was worried (did we do something that makes them not want to lease it to us anymore?) but last night, I got a hold of them, and it was just a misunderstanding.  They had submitted the ad months ago, and it only got printed recently.  We can still live there :)

I hung out with a cool woman from church last night (a pastor, in fact).  I can see some of myself in her- and it was good hearing a little of where she's coming from and telling her about myself, also.  It's so great learning more about interesting, important people, isn't it?  Not that I can really think of someone who's not interesting or important...

I'm a big geek sometimes- sometimes I act like I'm back in junior high- playing guessing games and not being straight-forward.  Or maybe that's just part of my personality?  I'm not direct about many things.  At least now it has less to do with confidence and more to do with, "do they really care what I have to say?"  or is that the same thing?
You know you're a morning person when you can sleep in a little, and yet still wake up at 5 and are ready to start your day :)  I wonder what will happen by the time I retire?  From the trend that my relatives set, they all wake up a couple hours earlier as they approach and pass retirement.  It seems so much easier to do things in the morning, and that I can get so much more done (as opposed to staying up to finish something- I get to a point that it would take much longer to finish something at night than to sleep and work on it in the morning; all-nighters had their place once in a while in college, though).

This is still the middle of my crazy week- filled with fun people and things to do!  My second interview with the church is today- and that's a different experience.  Before this, I'd only met the people I'd potentially be working with or my boss(es) at the interview, and in this case, I've known them for a few months, am comfortable around them and they know me a little.  That makes it both more and less nerve-wracking.  There seems to be more to lose, but if nothing else, we'll all get to know each other a little better.  And I already know that I like them (and they me?) and have an idea of what type of environment it'll be.

"It's Wednesday."  Is that a typical response that you get to, "How are you today?"?  I get that all the time in this office, and while I miss out on a lot of jargon, days-of-the-week as an indicator of how well someone is definitely common-place.  It's the predictable Monday=sad to be here, Wednesday=mixture tending towards happiness, Friday=good/happy/exhaust ed.  I use those words sometimes, too.  Generally, I answer questions honestly, but if I'm not doing well and don't want to share the gloom, I tend to not answer the question at all.