Sunday, December 17, 2006

Here’s the latest on Beau’s job hunt:

1. Still no word from Bill of Rights Institute, which we take as a non-offer. We’re assuming they made an offer to the other person they were talking to. Why Beau hasn’t gotten a rejection letter yet is a mystery.

2. Still no word from the colleges in SC and Seattle. We’re assuming they’ve made their selections and that Beau will get rejection letters after the new year sometime.

3. He did get a letter from one of the colleges in Arkansas - a sort of rejection. Apparently, their funding doesn’t allow for hiring right now and that search has been put on hold. So it wasn’t an outright no, just a not quite yet.

4. Beau’s mentor called last week to let him know that one of the folks on the search committee at the other Arkansas college has called him. Turns out that when they saw the reference letter from the mentor for Beau, one of the guys recognized the name and followed up with a phone call to said mentor. Just the other day Beau got an email letting him know that he made the first cut, along with 5 other people, and that he needs to set up a phone interview for early January. At this point, I’m praying baby Jesse doesn’t interfere with that interview by coming early and throwing all thoughts other than baby out the window.

So it’s looking like we may have the chance to move this summer after all, just not the location that we were hoping for. But we’re trusting God in it and are waiting to see what happens. In the meantime, Beau continues to prepare for his classes at GMU that start in late January.