Awwww!

I had a pleasant and mostly fun afternoon, but got very little work done. Now I'd better force myself to do just a little programming. ::looks fierce::

From way back, thanks for the offer, but it looks like S&S is repeating on PBS this weekend so I've set the Tivo. Of course, I've yet to watch Mansfield Park or P&P so I'm not sure when I'll actually get around to watching it.

Ooh, thanks for the heads-up.

Also, Susan, my sis and her roommates have been on a total Austen kick recently, and I had, um, borrowed, one of their DVDs which they spent hours looking for. But! I was able to totally skate out of the situation by loaning them the BBC dvds you gave me. Whoo-hoo!

Also, if that kid left your home with all him limbs intact, you get an A. Seriously.

ION, I tried to leave work early at like 2:30 today because I was just so exhausted. I had stuff to do, but I knew I'd do better if I just went home and sat on my couch and tackled it there. I even had my computer shut down.

Then I made the mistake of mentioning to my boss an (actually pretty good) idea I had, and instead of getting added to some list, she wanted to move right away, and then the Americas Chief of PR is at my desk asking questions, and then we're planning out the whole goddamn thing right now. And then that keeps me there long enough that someone calls on a whole 'nother project that needed fires put out.

Feh.

Your parents are pretty awesome, Allyson.

Also, if that kid left your home with all him limbs intact, you get an A. Seriously.

Well, he was bigger than me, and the knives are in the kitchen. And I haven't invested in a sword YET.

Ugh. I'm still at work. I was hoping to turn over the first batch of my manuscript today, but all the forms that I have to fill out make me want to cry. There is no way this is happening until Monday.

Cat people: my cat is panting, crying, and generally acting weird. Also sort of compulsively grooming her back feet. Ideas if this is vet-worthy?

All people: mr. flea appears to have TWO job offers. One is safe: pays better, decent location, we could buy a house and settle down, work related to what he's doing but also new, has a clear career path (EPA). The other is exciting: work doing what he likes best, but with him and the main expert in his area, and it's in Singapore, and the pay is not great though they will pay relocation and travel for the whole family, including 2x annual visits to the US. We could commit to as little as 1 year. Safe or exciting? Which would you pick?

With the economy poised to go into the crapper, I don't know how I'd chose, flea!

As for the cat, this isn't a young unfixed female, is it? If that's not a go, have you seen her use the litter box at all today? She/he could have a blockage of some kind, and that gets serious fast. Can you catch her and examine her rear for injuries and all that?

If he takes the safe job, flea, can you continue to work? If he moves to Singapore, would it be enough for you to not work?

If we went safe, we could live comfortably on his income, but there are work opportunities for me if I chose (I am also in school, and might choose to work part time or not at all and finish my degree faster).

For exciting, I am less sure of job opportunities and the legality of my employment, but there are probably jobs; I just don't know enough. I also wonder how comfortable I'd feel putting my two year old in day care in a foreign country (and I don't know much about what they have for day care). I could still do the school, though, as it is a distance ed program.

It is fiendishly difficult to find international cost-of-living comparison calculators! The boss of 'exciting' says Singapore is cheaper than Boston (but we would be hard pressed to live in Boston on the salary offered alone), and the US State Department says life in Singapore is 127% as expensive as Washington DC. Not good news, really.

Wow, that's a tough one. Singapore is enough of a once-in-a-lifetime (for him career-wise, for all of you maybe life-wise) that it's seriously tempting. Is the Singapore situation likely to be a boost in terms of landing the next career step? I think that's where I'd come down. If it means it's a lot more likely to find something good on the other end, I'd lean that way. If the area he'd be focuing there is not necessarily that marketable/transferable, if it's a side step, maybe not so much.

What would your situation be during that year? Working, not working? Would that be good or bad?