I'm a little ashamed to admit...

...but not as much as I should be, that as soon as I remembered The Outlaw King was on Netflix I fast-forwarded to Chris Pine's nude scene. (At 1 hour 28 minutes, in case you needed to know.)

It lasted two seconds and he was clearly cold.

Progress Report, Part 2

Live in Illinois: According to a future colleague, literally everyone they contacted for my tenure review said "sure, happy to look, but I can't get back to you until December"--which, legit because middle/end of term in most places. However, this means they can't get me an offer letter until January so I can't start until March.

But this ALSO means that without an offer letter in hand we don't feel comfortable putting an offer in on a house just yet, despite finding a house we really like and two that would do nicely. We talked with our realtor who suggested that we could do a contingency offer which would be totally reasonable but those expire in 60 days, so we'd have to wait til the end of the month. Which isn't the worst thing, it's just...not the kind of closure I'd prefer, you know?

Anyway, we fly home tomorrow afternoon. It's supposed to snow tomorrow, and my friend who is dogsitting for us called basically asking if she could leave early to avoid the worst of the snow. I had to tell her we weren't landing until the evening, and if we got delayed we'd be later still. I feel bad for her--we're going to touch base tomorrow afternoon, and at least right now the weather service predicts that the main part of the storm will pass by 4pm, so hopefully we will all be well. Fingers crossed for us all!