First, ETD stands for Estimated Time of Departure (I said this the other day to a girl and all I got was a blank stare ... so I figured I'd spell it out for y'all). I say estimated because who knows? I don't. Too many variables in life to know for sure.
OK ... here is our schedule leading up to our move:
March 21: (Also One Way's birthday) Drive up to Atlantic Beach NC at 4 a.m. Look at houses. Talk to editors (for me).
Sometime in April: Need to go back ... no date selected yet. Probably when we do the closing on a house ...
May 3: Move Buttercup up to her new barn
May 15: movers take our stuff
May 15-20: we will be annoying relatives until our stuff arrives :) ... still don't know what we are doing with the dogs and cat
Job update -
My job search up there has been kinda slow. One paper blamed a staff freeze on the "credit crunch." What I don't understand: so your newspaper can't take out a mortgage and that's why you aren't hiring? No, that's not it. More than likely, your newspaper has been having staff cuts for a while now since you haven't carved out a niche in the failing general news market ... don't blame it on the credit crunch. If anything, you need an extra reporter to cover the crunch.
(side note: if you are that editor and you are now reading this, please don't take that as ... well ... please just hire me)
The good news: Got a call today from an editor looking for a military reporter. Sweet. Maybe things are looking up?
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