Again with This

In Our Same Boat (with State)

Beyond the Cornfields
Brand-new State Department family in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Love their two little girls (she just recently had a baby while being posted in Dhaka), horticulture, traveling and adventure!
Email From The Embassy
State Department family formerly in Beijing, China, and recently posted to Amman, Jordan. A trailing spouse, she's also a writer, and frequently publishes articles with major news sources. A very experienced State family, this new post is something like overseas post number six or seven for them.
Just US
A beautiful family of seven - they have arrived at their new post: Jerusalem! They just finished off an unaccompanied tour to Iraq and are very much looking forward to sightseeing around the middle east.
Our Life
State Department family on their second post...Tijuana, Mexico. It's their first overseas assignment and they have two little boys. They love Tijuana so far and post pictures frequently! They also get to enjoy the best of both worlds for they can sneak over the border into San Diego when they want to!
The Dinoia Family
State Department family formerly in California, now in DC for a DC tour. Next, the husband will do a one year unaccompanied tour. A very experienced State family (formerly in Iceland and Caracas) with a blog that has been around quite a while and has great archives. Jen has a sweet heart and a lot to give!
The Perlman Update
State Department family formerly in Chennai, India, who then did a year-long unaccompanied tour in Iraq. They are now on a DC tour and after that will do another unaccompanied tour (Afghanistan). She totally tells it like it is and doesn't sugar-coat what life is really like. Witty, snarky, funny and down-to-earth. Look elsewhere if you want fake. Read if you want REAL.
Where in the World Am I?
State Department family formerly in Bujumbura, Burundi and now in Hyderabad, India. They just had their first baby this summer - a beautiful little girl- (there's a separate blog about this) and she also eats gluten-free (with a separate blog, also).

Can't Live Without (non-State)

Crass-Pollination: An ER blog
The best ER nurse blog EVER!
Doctor Grumpy in the House
The best doctor blog EVER!
In Which...
My IRL friend, a stay-at-home, homeschooling Mama of seven. Her darling daughters are, goshdarnit, probably too young to be hoped for as my future daughters-in-law.
The Crib Chick
My IRL friend, a stay-at-home, homeschooling Mama of five. Hopefully two (Any two! I'm not picky!) of which are my future daughters-in-law.
the underwear drawer
An anesthesiologist who is possibly the most talented & entertaining writer ever. I've read her blog ever since she started medical school. No, don't know her in real life. Wish I did.
The Bloggess
This blog is both hysterically funny and hilariously irreverent. I actually let my 17 year old son read it (who loves it as much as I do!), but wouldn't even CONSIDER letting my 12 year old son read it. Which is about all the description it needs!

05/17/2013

Again with This

Prepare to be SHOCKED.

Ready for a stunning revelation?

James didn't get paneled for an onward assignment at today's DS panel.

You have to pick yourself up off the floor now, right?

(/sarcasm)

Yeah, so, anyway - still no onward assignment for us. And it's true - we had been told that we weren't going to be paneled today. But, but... but I guess that didn't stop the faint glimmer of hope in my heart that I had that things might have worked out for us by now.

Thirty-three OTHER people of James' grade were paneled today - I would imagine that most of them were current winter bidders - but nothing for us leftover summer bidders from last year who are still sitting around with NADA.

UGH.

So, yeah.

Here's to June the 7th!! Which is the next panel date. Which will hopefully be OUR panel date (although- how many times have I written that now on my blog? A thousand?).

Let's hope June the 7th doesn't ALSO end up being all

"Oh, did you want this?"

Because that would suck.

OR NOT, as the case may be.

Posted on 05/17/2013 at 04:49 PM in Bidding, James - State Department, Kill Me Now | Permalink

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Am I losing it or don't you already have a handshake on your next assignment? And the next panel will make it official?

Posted by: Dana | 05/17/2013 at 05:08 PM

We do not have a handshake on anything. We have great hope for something, but that is all. Unfortunately, great hope does not a handshake make, as we all know.

Posted by: A Daring Adventure | 05/17/2013 at 05:13 PM