I'm somewhere in the realm of 25 years from retirement. Gov't makes you wait 30 years.

I now have all 3 of my references in line and I'm still working on the application.

Told the postdoc about my applying for the job. She took it really well. Whew! Major relief. She said she really understood. THEN she tells me about some major family stress that she had this past weekend and she broke down in tears. Lovely. I felt really lousy for dumping this info on her at such a lousy time for her. But I needed to tell her now before she heard it through the grapevine.

Speaking of grapevine - this icewine sounds really intereseting. I'll have to try to find some. The next time I'm near civilization, I'll have to look.