Sorry for the delay in this update.

The interview turned out to be a series of interviews last Thursday. The portions with the department manager and the technical advisor went very well. The portion with the man I'd be reporting to went okay (he seemed really stressed and I was nervous, too, which he seemed to think was rediculous...) I was told they couldn't make up their minds until I met with the project lead. I left my cell phone number and my parent's phone number after explaning that I was going to my parent's town while my dad had some medical tests run. I was expecting a call setting up the follow-on interview sometime earlier this week. While I was at my parent's my mom got really sick and we ran her into the Emergency Room. She was diagnosed with three reatively minor problems that had 'hit at once' and magnified each other. She was released and I pretty much played nurse-maid to my mom for most the week. She's fine now, and I'm concerned she's overdoing without me forcing her to take naps and to take her meds, etc... Dad's MRI went better than we'd expected. The problem turns out to be a hernia *, and the surgeon is expecting to fix it on an outpatient basis later this month. So, it's not as bad as I'd feared... By this morning, I was convinced that the lady arranging interviews had forgotten I was travelling this week and that she'd left the message on my home phone. Nope, not at all. I'm trying to figure out if I call her Monday to see what's going on, whether I'd be seen as proactive or rediculously pushy?

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers and good wishes. I hadn't realized I wouldn't have internet access when I was with my folks.

* Just days before we left for Ireland, Dad was inspecting something on their roof. He fell off and landed in a rose bush. As best we can tell, the injury that led to the hernia happened then...